The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-16
Inside
Washington

WASHINGTON. - Military oh.
servers in the capital are ON,
WINGED that the present island ..
island" campaign in the sontbuo.,
Pacific will end with the succos.
full conclusion of the current nr.
Arthur offensive.
Once the last Jap stronghold.
in the Northern Solomons N.
Guinea, New Britain and New, 1.o
land are cleared, the real fast .
American and Allied strategy will
come. VIII
The United States and rrn;4.,
Nations high commands then WIN
have to decide in which directs
to concentrate their next maioa
blows against the Rising S,n,
There are two theories on tbn
matter:
Gen. D cugla S MacArtb,,r,.
idea is to drive into the pbiIlin
pines, possibly to the southern +
land of Mindinao, and til enca
northward to Manila.
Ponce the Navy has enono5
aircraft carriers and shins for 81
large scale movement, it probabIv
will want to strike into the heat
of Japan's inundated islands
If Macarthur should have HI.
way, the Navy would have IN ,aa
powerful naval forces under bis
command to carry out his mill
tary ideas as he sees fit.
However, Navy men have mad,
no secret of the fact that oncs
the South and Southwest Pacifc
campaigns are over, the War
against Japan will be largely
Navy show with Navy man Ii
recting the operations.
The House Ways and Mean,
committee, which originates all
tax bills, has adopted the dodss
OF not taking record votes on tsv
proposals. The unconcealed nnr.
pose is to prevent the public from
finding out how members vote m
tax increases.
1t all began when Rep. DonaB
H. Mclean (R.) of New jersey
was publicly mentioned as having
voted to increase the liquor tax
from Sc to SIC a gallon. Mclean
squaWked at a secret session of
the committee, complaining bitter.
ly that the liquor interests Of his
state kept him on the telephone
half the preceding night.
| Chairman Robert L. Doughtoo
CD of North Carolina, also was
irked, feeling that some commit.
teeman had been discourteous 10
him by taking the liberty of dis.
closing how Mclean voted. Dough.
ton made all committee members
VOW to leave public announcements
to him.
Subsequently, the chairman re.
fused to reveal how members vot.
ed in rejecting a general sales
tax, despite an unprecedented let.
ter from reporters demanding the
information. The reporters insist
ed secrecy violated the democrat
ic principle of accountability Of
elected officials to their constitu-
ents.
The committee held a hush-hush
confab on the matter but stood
/ firm behind Doughton Then it de-
veloped that the group was not
taking record votes to make dou-
bly, sure that the "ayes" a n d
noes" of its members are kept
secret.
Newsmen in Washington got a
"break" on the recent announce
ment of the Moscow pact
owl Director Elmer Davis and
Censorship Chief Byron Prize
suuelched an attempt TO Censor
the United States press. ODDLY
enough, the Censorship proposal
came from their American repof-
torial colleagues in Moscow
The Moscow reporters, feeling
that they ought TO be allowed 10
write the final clinactc chaptel
to the conference of foreign min
listers. asked for seven hours lee,
way to transmit their stories and
also a stimulation that if the news
was picked up in transition ol-. by
German radio, no United oVa!e S
naner wculd use any story which
the Nazis might broadcast,
Davis and Price promptly turn,
ed thumbs down on the latter loea
, At conference with Acting Sec
retarv Of State Edward StettlnluS'
Moreover, it was agreed 10 re-,
lease the stories Simultaneously III
Moscow. London and Washington
three hours after reporters IN eDo Iss
cities we're given the text OF '"s
agreements.