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Evening star., 1943-01-18
State Tax Cut
Of S4,045,00O
Seen by0'Conor
Governor Expected
To Discuss PIun in
Budget Talk Tonight
Sy the Associated Press.

47H |Ht hSSOCldleQ tTeSS.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 18.-Gov.
OConor said today that his
proposal to cut State income
taxes by one-third would result
in a S4,045,000 annual saving to
the taxpayers of Maryland if
adopted by the Legislature.
Gov O'Conor was expected to de-
vote a good part of his biennial
budget message, scheduled for de-
| liverance before a joint session OF
| the Maryland General Assembly to-
night, to the proposed income tax
cut.
Also on tonight's agenda is an
other monetary problem-that of
the enactment of the relief pay
bill" authorizing that quarterly pay
ments of the lawmakers $1,000 an
nual salaries be made at the begin
ming of each quarter when the
Legislature is in session.
Budget Message Prepared.
Some of the legislators were re-
ported to be short of cash and
passage of the bill is awaited eagerly.
Both houses adopted the measure
Friday, but the Senate adjourned
for the week end before the House
had completed passage.
If the Governor signs the bill to-
night, the legislators will be able
to draw $3.50 each tomorrow.
1t was understood that Gov
O'Conor would deliver his State
budget message shortly after the
General Assembly convenes to elect
the State treasurer for the next four
years.
The chief executive said his esti-
mate of the S4,045 900 yearly savings
was based on a survey made by
experts of taxes collected in the
past and the predicted incomes of
Marylanders for the next two years.
Cut to Be Retroactive.
The proposed 33i5 cut in income
taxes, under Gov. O'Conor's plan,
would be retroactive to the 1912 cal
endar year.
Speaker Conlon said today that
there was no question but that
Hooper S. Miles would be reelected
State treasurer for the next four
years"
He added that the preponderant
Democratic majority in the Assem-
bly, would assure Mr.. Miles election
without much fight"
Swift action on a move instituted
ia the Legislature to curb the abso-
lutte veto power of the Governor
was seen by veteran observers.
Orders Dating of Bills.
The action, resolution intro
duced in the House, would order
the chief clerk to date all bills
within six days of final passage.
Under the law the Governor is
required to act on all bills within
six days after they are presented
to him.
In recent years, however, many
bills have reached the Governor
without having been dated, permit
ting him to lay them aside and
wait for adjournment of the Legis-
lature before taking action on the
bills. This, in effect, gives the Gov
ernor absolute power to veto. Gov.
O'Conor, it was understood, was not
opposing the resolution.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
District Fire Budget Provides
New Company, No Equipment
Chief Porter Will Use Reserve MoterieI
For Truck Unit in Anucostio Area

A new fire truck company to
serve the large and ast-developing
| area east of the Anacostia River is
one of the few Improvements Fire
Chief Stephen T. Porter has to
look forward to today in the 1914
District budget, now awaiting con-
sideration of Congress.
The budget, in its present form,
provides funds for salaries and uni
forms for a company of IS privates
and three officers-a captain,
lieutenant and sergeant-Fire Chief
Porter plans to place in service
with available reserve equipment in
No. l9 engine house at Twenty
eighth place and PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue. Sc.
All of the funds sought for new
equipment, a total of S59,425. was
squeezed out of the budget before it
went to Congress last week on the
theory it could not be purchased
anyway because of strict WPB
priority restrictions. The same
amount was appropriated for new
equipment in the current fiscal year
TO replace obsolete and worn-out
apparatus, but the Fire Department
was unable to get it as a result of
WPB rulings.
Equipment Needed.
Chief Porter wanted the s59.425 to
purchase three new pumping
engines, hose wagon, an aerial
truck and two passenger cars. one
OF which he hoped to use in speed
ing to fires.
The new truck company is de-
signed to give additional fire fight
ing facilities to such communities
as Bradbury Heights, Hillcrest,
Summit Park, Randle Highlands.
East Washington Park. Benning
and the adjacent property on Good
Hope road. Truck units now near
est this area are No. at Eighth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, approximately a mile away:
No. s at Nichols avenue and Esther
place Sc, about three miles away.
and No. 13 on Florida avenue NE.
near Thirteenth street, which is
more than three miles distant.
Justifying establishment of the
new fire company, the District Com
told the Budget Bureau:
In view of the large area covered
by these subdivisions to the District
line, the large number of frame
dwellings with their attendant ne
cessity for quick response by the
fire department due to their COM
bustible structure, the unusual num-
Der of long hauls, the rapidly grow
ing business and residential pro-
gram under way, and the great dis
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Alexandra Board Lists
Cos Book Renewal Dates

The Alexandria Ration Board will
be open from 7:30 to $50 pm.
Thursday and Friday for renewal
of supplementary gasoline books.
No other business may be trans
acted at that time, and persons
who are free to come during the
day are urged to do so in order to
leave the evening hours for those
who cannot get there during the
day. Regular hours of the board.
which is located at ZIG North Colum-
bus street, are 10 am. to pm. daily,
with the exception of Thursdays,
when the board is closed all day.
Officials have announced that any
supplemental books which expire
within 80 days may be renewed,
as well as those that expire Janu-
ary %.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
6,126 Request
RecdIpped Tires
Since Jan. |
All District Drivers
Holding Certificates
Eligible by OPA Rule

While the offer lasts, District mo
torists are taking advantage of tn,
chance to get recapped or replace
ment tires for their cars.
Already this month 6.l26 applica
tlonS for recapS have been received
by local rationing boards.
During December, according to thu
District OPA, 1854 car owners were
given certificates for recapped tires
2,9l0 for grade l tires, 883 for grade
2 and 2,427 for grade 3. This wa,
the first month all car owners were
made eligible for recapping or somt
kind of replacement rubber.
The number of certificates fol
recaps given by local boards ir
November, when eligibility was still
restricted, was 2,458 Before Decem-
Der only two grades of tires were
available and the November total
for grade certificates was 3,102
Most OF these were for taxicabs
which had become eligible for re-
placement tires only two months
before. The boards, in November,
also issued 842 certificates for grade
2 tires.
Get Prompt Action.
About 95 per cent of those granted
certificates for recapping and re-
placements, according to local OPA
official, are already driving on their
new tires. He said it takes between
10
on an application, although in some
instances applicants have had to
wait somewhat longer.
Motorists of all classes are eligible
now for recaps. All "A" card drivers
may get grade 3 requirements, "B"
and &C" book drivers with less than
1000 miles of essential driving a
month are permitted to obtain
grade tires and &C. book holders
with more than 1000 miles of neces-
sary travel monthly are eligible for
grade requirements. In each case,
however, it must be demonstrated
by certificate from an authorized
tire inspector that recap is need
ed; or, If the tire is beyond recap
ping, that replacement is required
Since the deadline for inspection
of tires on cars carrying "a" books
has been postponed to March 81 and
for "B" and &C" book holders to
February %, applicants for recapped
or replacement tires are not re-
quired to present their tire inspec-
ton records, showing that the tires
on the car have been examined as
required by the OPA. Later, how
ever, these records will be required
as part of the application.
Truck Rubber Big Problem.
The big problem, it was explained,
is not that Of passenger cars on
which the mileage has been dras-
tically limited but rather that of
providing new rubber for trucks.
Such vehicles are eligible when they
have certificates Of war necessity,
but few of them can use the re-
claimed rubber being issued for pas
senger cars. Instead, a generous
mixture of crude rubber must go
into truck tire, and crude rubber
is anything but plentiful these days.
On the basis of the mileage pas
senger cars are allowed to travel
these days, the OPA official esti-
mated, recaps and requirements
even Of grade 3 rubber should last
for the duration. He said he ex-
pected that by June most cars in the
District would be well equipped and
that applications would begin fall
ing off sharply.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Forest Glen K. of c.
To Meet Tomorrow

Joseph G. Loeffler of Baltimore,
Maryland State deputy, Knights of
Columbus, will be honor guest at a
social meeting of Forest Glen Coun-
Gil, knights of Columbus, at 835
pm. tomorrow at Rosensteel Hall,
Forest Glen.
The following candidates have re-
ceived the first degree; Thomas
Amatucci, Francis Merrill Salter,
Thomas E. Davis, John c. De Bald,
Austin j. WEIGH, jr., and Daniel
Salamoner.
The council is participating in
the victory book drive and men,
bers are asked to bring their con-
tributions to RoSenSteel Hall.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Death Of Soldier Son
Kept From Mother
In Hospital Here
Pvt. Raymond Gibson
Killed in Accident
At Comp Forest, Tenn.

News of her 24-year- old sons
death Saturday at Camp Forest
Tenn, was being withheld today
from a Bethesda Md woman who
is recovering from a major opera
ton in local hospital.
Raymond Gibson of 674O Fairfax
road, Bethesda, Navy Yard en-
ploye, and father of Pvt. Raymond
Gibson, said he was notified of his
sons death by the War Depart
ment Saturday, an hour before his
wife was to undergo an operation
He said the family would with
hold the news of Pvt. Gibson's
death until Mrs. Gibson has recov-
cred sufficiently to stand the shock
Mrs. Gibson has been i'll for the
last year, he said, and the news oi
her operation likewise has beer
withheld from another son who is
in the Army Air Forces.
According to the War Depart
ment, Pvt. Gibson was killed wher
a "bangalore" torpedo, used ir
shattering barbed-wire entangle-
ments, exploded prematurely while
he was demonstrating it to a class
A native of Washington, Pvt. Glib
son attended Central High School
where he was member of the
baseball team. Before being in
Quoted in october he had been en-
ployed in the Washington Post
Office. His family has lived in Be
thesda for the last year and half
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by two brothers, Pvt. Ber-
nard F. Gibson, %, of the air forces
who will fly from Luke Field, Ariz.
for the funeral, and Charles E
Gibson, 18, of Bethesda and two
sisters, Mrs. Walter NARROW anc
Mrs. Theodore Del Borrell, both oi
Washington.
Pvt. Gibson will be buried in Ar
lington National Cemetery at time
to be annonced later.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Monpower Conference
Set Feb. ! at Alexandria

One of a series of II State wide
conferences at which selective serv-
ice officials will explain plans for
meeting the 1943 manpower quotas
will be held at Alexandria Febru-
ary l, Col. Mills F. Neal, Virginia
director, said today.
Col. Neal said the meetings will
bring together members and per-
sonnel of local boards, appeal boards
and Government appeal agents who
will discuss the problems of classif-
cation, deferments and keeping up
with demands for selectees.
Evening star., 1943-01-18

tance which truck companies have
to travel to reach these buildings, il
is desirable that the l8 new mer
necessary to place the truck COM
pany in service be provided for.
Traffic Delays Apparatus.
Access to the territories in ques-
ton is by means of three bridges
one of which is a draw bridge. Traf.
fic is exceedingly heavy on these
bridges which has, at times, de.
layed apparatus in reaching the
scene of fire. This makes it par.
ticularly desirable to have better
protection on the east side of the
river"
1t was estimated the salaries OF
the l8 men that would form the new
company would amount to $36,940 ir
the fiscal year beginning July /, anc
that their uniforms could be pro-
vided for an additional s2,340.
In the slashing of the budget
Fire Chief Porter not only lost
$59,425 for new equipment, but
$4,000 of an $4,000 item for new
fire hose. This cut was due also
to the fact that WPB would allow
the Fire Department to spend only
a portion of the $4,000 appro-
priated for that purpose in the
present fiscal year.
The department, however, is
badly in need of hose requirements.
its total hose strength now is
204,550 feet, which is about 1000
feet less than in service last year,
despite the population increase and
the newly developed sections to
be protected.
See 1S9,550-Foot Total.
At least 10000 feet of old hose
will have to be condemned in the
new fiscal year, it is estimated,
and fire officials have calculated
If they can purchase $4,000 feet of
new hose in that period with WPB
the department will have
a total Of only 189,550 feet.
Altogether, the budget allows
the department $2,435,810 for oper-
alton and maintenance in the 1914
fiscal year, decrease of s157,445
under the amount granted for the
current fiscal year. The reduction
would have been larger, except for
savings resulting from the en-
ployment of privates at $1,000 a
year to replace higher-salaried men
who have gone into the armed
services, and an increase in the
fund for providing uniforms and
other personal equipment from
S25, ,375 to s41,340.
In the days before the war the
could outfit a fireman
for SIS. Now it costs $3.50.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
P-TA Committee to Meet

The Executive Committee of the
Parent-Teacher Association of the
Claude A. Swanson Junior High
School will meet at pm. tomor-
row at the home of Mrs. Arthur
Geiger, 1906 North Harvard street,
Arlington, it was announced today.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Farm Machine Repair
Courses Considered
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SANDY SPRING. Nd, Jan. 18.-
II attendance justifies, a course in
acetylene Welding, forging and re-
pairing farm machinery will be held
at Sherwood High School for lC
weeks beginning tomorrow night, il
has been announced.
Samuel J. Finneyfrock of Olney
who will be in charge. said the class
must average al least 10 pupils a
night to be continued Glasses vii
be held Tuesday and Friday nights
Persons having farm machinery
needing attention should bring it tc
the school tomorrow he said.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
WAatYo4<R~1MM
WAR Bonds

Every shipyard in our country is
setting amazing records in the con-
struction of merchant marine so
essential to the transport of supplies
and men to the seven seas. The
overall cost of these hundreds of
ships now building runs into mil
lions of dollars.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
P-TA Meeting Called Off

The January meeting of the
Parent-Teacher Association of the
East Silver Spring Elementary
School, scheduled for tonight, has
been Cancelled because of the ban
on pleasure driving. it was an
nounced by George Day, president
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Dr.. Hooer to Speak

DR.. Walter Hager, president of
Wilson Teachers College, will speak
before the Association for the Edu-
cation of Handicapped Children at
Central High School at 8:l5 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1943-01-18

Many of them are called Victory"
ships and you are contributing to
this victory by your purchase of War
bonds . . at least 10 per cent of
your income, every payday. Well
need these ships after the war, too,
when peace comes.
Omitted States Treasury Department.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
Interior Dept.
 Turns Thumbs Down on Bill

". WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-(AP) )-Anthony J. Di- mond Alaska Delegate to Congress, today disclos- ed the opposition of the Department of Interior, to the bill, H R. 2462, introduced by MT. Dimond, to provide for the election of the Governor of Alaska
 The Interior Department has made it impossible for the House Territories committee, to which the bill was referred, to hold hearings the measure.
 The department had not submitted report on the bill, although requested to do so by the commit tee, but did reply that its enactment would require changes in the Organic Act of Alaska.
 MT. Dimond said however the bill for the cleo ton of governor of Puerto Rico was approved by the Department of the Interior
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
BIG FOUR IN MEETING
Aussiies Pushiinq 
 

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec. 1.-(AP)-Australian jungle fighters pushing north from Fincshhafen, captured BOnga, the seaward anchor of the Japanese principal supply line on the northeastern New Guinea coast.
 It's fall without a struggle de- prived the enemy of another hold.
 On the Huon Peninsula the Aussies also took Gusika, while other jungle fighters were nov ing into Gongs.
 Allied bonlbers were aiding the ground forces by smashing the airdrome at Cape Gloucester to the eastward on the New Gui- nea coast pinning the enemy air force to the ground. g Mitchell Marauder bonbers, escorted by Airacobra fighters, dropped 46 tons of explosives.
 Six Ldberator bombers attack ed Manokwari on the northern coast of Dutch New Guinea, do- ing damage to shipping and har- Dor installations.
 Half a dozen Miochells bombed the Japanese forward positions in he Empress of Augusta Bay area on BoUgainville, in the North Solomons.
 A loaded Japanese barge was sunk off the southern tip of Bou- gainville by our PIT. boats.
 Noteworthy absence in com. nuniques of Japanese air inter ception of Allied bombing for avs, allied airmen ventured the opinion that the apparent timid- tty in the skies was due to hav- ing learned the lesson the hard way in meeting the terrific fire. power of the heavy bombers' for nations which has accounted for 520 enemy planes. destroyed dur ing November.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
REPUBLICANS IN VICTORY

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 1.- tAP) - Republicans expressed elation over the 12.6O0 vote vic- tory of Chester O'Carrier Liech- field attorney, scored yesterday over -Js Dan Talbott,% BardstoWn democrat, when he won the con- gressional seat in the fourth dis trict in Kentucky. .
 The victory in a special cleo tion gave Kentucky it's second republican congressman. Repuh- lican John Marshall Robinson, of Barbourville. Ky. has represent ed the ninth district for years.
 In Washington, y Chairman Spangler of the Republican Ma tional Committee. said:
 "It becomes increasingly evi- dent, that whatever the Presi- dents intentions respecting a fourth term, Republicans will sweep the nation in "A"
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
SCORE SUCCESS
 IN UKRAINE

~ MOSCOW, Dec. L. AP)-Ger- man forces were frantically struggling to restore their shat tered Dnieper river lines, with intensified counterattacks, and scored their second major suc- cess in the Ukraine, since the be- ginning of their heavy counter attacks in early November.
 Despite German reoccupation of the rail functions of Zhitomir and Korosten, the Russians still hold Ovruch and Yelsk on the important lateral rail line con- meeting Leningrad and Odessa.
 The Germans fought back fiercely, south of Zhlobin but except for the loss of Korosten the Red Army continued its gradual progress on all active sectors along a 600-mile front.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
MAKE
 NEW LANDING

LONDON, Dec. 1.-(AP)- Tokyo radio announced that American forces had made new landing at Cape Torokina,. on the west coast of Bougainville island, to the north of the present beach, head.
 The broadcast said, the troops came ashore in six large landing barges. under a barrage laid. down by cruisers and des- troyers.
 The landing was carried out near the mouth of the Laruma river.
 The Japanese said their de- lenses had wiped out two com panies of the landing forces.
 No immediate confirmation was reported from allied sources.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01

 To Be
 Iran
SpecuLatlonS

UNDATED Speculatlons that mighty new thrusts against the Axis are in the making, are being stirred by unofficial re- ports that Roosevelt and Church. i'll are speeding to a conference with Stalin in Iran, after meet ing Chiang Kai Shek in Cairo.
 Reports emanating from Lisbon and quickly given wide circula- ton, climaxed the week of guess ing by the German propaganda agencies, which have been hint ing of the possibility of an immi- nent meeting of the Allied lead CTS in Cairo or elsewhere in the Middle East.
 The report circulated by Reu- ters said:
 Tt is known definitely in Lis- bon that the meeting has already taken place between Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai Shk in Cairo, and that the President and Prime Minister Churchill are now speeding toward Iran for a meeting with Stalin."
 In a broadcast to European countries in several languages last night by the Office of War Information, which said it acted by authority of the Office of Cen sorship, Elmer Davis, the OwS chief, said owl broadcast the dispatch because Tt was already all over Europe"
 He sharply criticized Reuters. the British news agency. for put ting out the story, declaring, ''If there were a conference, we could assume by past experince, there would be some arrangements for simultaneous release in all cap- itals involved. If that were the case Reuters broke a release date If there were no conference then the story is an invention or fabrication. Either way 1t IS re- prehensible"
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
BRITISH SLASH FORWARD PAST .SANCRO RIDGE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Dec. 1.-The British army slashed forward beyond the Sangro Ridge with the heaviest air support of the Italian cam paign, and marked up advances all along the line from one to three miles, in fierce hand to hand fighting.
 They captured Lanciano, six miles north of the Sangro, also Caster. Frentano and Casoli, the latter at the southwestern end of the Sangro Ridge.
 In the central part of the line the Fifth American Army dashed forward three miles to the west of Montaquila, through dense minefieldS and twisted masses of barbed wire. It is the first time in the Mediterranean warfare the wire has been used. It was used eXtensivly by the Germans in this manner in the first World War.
 Liberator bombers of the 18th airforce swung into action in a raid to the northern ftp of the Adriatic to hit Plume, it's first aerial blow of the war.
 The strategic port was oap- tured by the Germans from Yugo- slav Partisans in a violent battle soon after the Italian armistice, and was transformed by Rommel into one of his most important bases for Balkan operations.
 A German spokesman quoted the DNB broadcast, saying, 'The British Eighth Army doing battle in the Sangro area. in very great forces, is numerically far super for to German forces. The enemy air force is hammering the Ger man artillery positions on the north slopes of the Sangro val ley"
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
BOMBERS IN E.. <. :: DAYLIGHT RAID

:. LONDON. Dec. 1,-(AP):-- American heavy bombers attack ed western Germany again while Marauder and medium bombers made operations an American double-header by battering air. fields in northern France in day. light attacks and for the fourth day of round the clock bombing of Germany itself.
 Monday it was Bremen. yester- day, Solingen in the Ruhr. These raids came in conjunction with raids by RAT Mesquite bombers on rail lines and trasportationn in general. The heavy bombers were escorted by U. S. and R. A. F. fighters and the medium bomb CTS by Dominion and Allied fighters. t..s
 Specific targets were not an- nounced immediately, but Air Minister Sinclair told the Com mons that since the beginning of the year, that the U. s. air force had lost 629 bombers over Eu- rope, as compared to the RATS loss of 2.Q8S by night raids and l06 by day.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-01
CONFERENCE
 HELD

ANKlARA, Turkey Dec. i.- (AP)-The newspaper AkSam said that Roosevelt had conferred in Cairo with Laurence Stein hardt, U. s. ambassador to Tur- key.
 The U. s. ambassador to Fur key and the U s. embassy de. clined to comment but Stein hardt returned to Ankara, Tur- key. last night after an absence of about a week,
 All Turkish papers carried stories to the effect of moment ous conference being held by the United Nations leaders.