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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-17
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HIGH TAXATION
Program Designed To Bal
ance Budget, Wipe Out
War Debt Seex

WASHINGTON, April Is. - B -
A program of Realistically high"
taxes designed to balance the post
war budget as quickly as possible
will be proposed to the Republic IN
National Convention by its advi-
norg committee on finance, taxa
ton and money, Chairman Taft
R-Ohio) predicted today.
Senator Taft said experts en-
ployed by the committee already
have completed the preliminary
draft. He said, however, that ex'
tensive revisions may be made
when the full committee meets
soon at his call. Besides Taft, the
committee members are Gov. Lev
erett Saltonstan of Massachusetts,
Gov. Dwight Griswold of Nebraska,
former Senator John Townsend Of
Delaware, Rep. Woodruff of Mich
igan, Rep. Carter of California, ano
Henry Leonard of Colorado.
Taft told reporter he person
ally thinks it will be necessary to
keep taxes high after the war, al
though he said some adjustments
may be necessary in corporation
levies to encourage reconverslor
and private enterprise.
1.-THE thing we have got to do as
quickly as possible is to bring the
Federal budget into balance anc
start paying off the enormous wal
debt" he declared. ''We cannot &c
on with deficit spending in peace
time if the nations financial stabl-
lily is to be maintained
Taft said the committees re-
search staff had been asked to de-
termine, among other things, how
heavy a burden of taxation the
people can carry without social,
ization." The staff also was direct
ed to report on the estimated cos
of various postwar government &C.
tivities.
While Taft said his group woulo
hold a regular meeting before the
party's June 26 convention, Chair
man Vandenberg (R-Mich) told re
porters that the foreign policy ad'
visory group which he heads vii
work Informally on revisions OF the
preliminary report it made las
September at an advisory council
meeting at Mackinac Island, Mich
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MOUNTBATTEN MOVES
New Asia Headquarters
Are Established On Cey-
lon, Off India
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR.

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Handy, Ceylon, April 16. -
LP)-Adventurous Allied glider
horne troops are operating only go
miles northwest of Mandalay, Gre
ating a serious situation for the
Japanese in the India-Burma Of
fensive, it was disclosed today as
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten
transferred his headquarters to
this base, closer to the scene OF
future campaigns.
This deepest penetration yet be-
hind Japanese lines was announced
in the first communique issued
from the new headquarters here,
which also declared confidently
that the plain of Imphal, in north
eastern India, was firmly in Allied
hands.
The conmunique said specifical
ly that Commando bomber attacks
had supported Allied ground posi-
tons in the areas of Shwero, or
the Observation-Disclosures railroad 81
miles northwest of Mandalay.
This was the first disclosure tina
Chindits, glider-born troops for
merly led by the late Maj. Gen
Orde C. Wingate, had penetrated
that far south.
Previously the Chindits wer,
known only to be in the Katha
Mawlu area some 100 miles nortl
of Mandalay on the Mandalay-My
itkyina rail line. The communiqu
said bombers also struck in tina
area.
These newly-disclosed position
indicated the Allies were astrid
all commune atoms feeding tn
Japanese exploits to the north, in
Guiding the invasion of India. TIL
Chindits in the Yeu-Shwebo are
also were in a position to captur
or harass airdromes defendin
Mandalay.
This favorable new development
doubtless was the basis for tn
current feeling in Allied quarter
that the Japanese abortive India1
invasion was doomed because tn
enemy had been cut off from hi
bases of supply in the campaign
to reach Allied rail lifelines in tn,
north.
The communique also said Allie,
forces, on the offensive now il
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ALLIED HEADQUAR1- 5,
Naples, April 16-lR-RAF yelling
ton bombers, smashed in con-
tinued offensive against Germany
communications in southeastern
Europe, rained explosives on the
important Romanian railroad and
Liberators ''in great strength had
attacked Bucharest and Ploesti.
On the Italian land front, quiet
was broken only by ceaseless
probing of patrols and intermit-
tent Smelling. But delayed dis
patches disclosed that one Of the
American patrol thrusts yesterday
ripped two and half miles through
German positions in the eastern
sector of the beachhead front and
took 81 prisoners.
Turu-Severin, the target of the
Willingtons' first trip to Romania,
lies in the foothills of the Transyl-
vanian Alps on the old Yugoslav.
Romanian frontier at point where
the Danube emerges through the
mountains from the Hungarian
plain. The town it ITO miles west
of Bucharest.
Headquarters announced that II
Fortresses and Liberators were
lost in Saturdays attack on the
Romanian capital Of Bucharest
and the oil center of Ploesti. -Four
escorting fighter planes also fail.
ed to return. Allied filters shot
down 10 enemy planes and saw
great clouds of black smoke billoW
up from their targets.
Liberators also hit railroad ards
at Mis- in Yugoslavia, south of Bel
grade, scoring many hits in the
yards.
Only Is enemy fighters attacked
the Liberators at Bucharest, anc
three of them fell to Liberator gun
ners, Fortress gunners shot doWr
one of 10 planes encountered a
Ploesti. Lightning pilots destroyed
two Dornier 217's Shooting rockets
into the Liberator formations.
The flare-up of action on the
beachhead yesterday was accomp
lished by American tanks and in
fantry, who struck suddenly for
ward through German coastal posi-,
tons east of the Mussolini Canal
about three miles southwest o.
Littoria. There were no Alliec
casualties from the raid.
In Casino, where neither the
Germans continued to rake the
dead sire cts of the battered toWr
with mortar fire and allied-helc
castle hill was subjected to new
Smelling. Mortar fire was also
heavy north and northwest OF the
town.
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Belgrade, Yugoslavia Capital,
Raided For First Time By U.S.;
s Allies Threaten Japs In India
Censorship In
Protested

LONDON, April 1-tR-Five war
correspondents pr e e n n g
a large block of the British press
in Burma announced today they
will file no more news from that
theater until censorship restric-
tons are relaxed.
The correspondents protest
against what they consider exces-
sive censorship came as the Brit
ish press, for the first time since
Japanese forces began their inva'
sion of India, expressed grave con-
Germ over the conduct of the Bur
ma campaign.
In an article in the London Rey
nolds News, Lord Winster warned
the British public today agains
forgetting the foolish and Opt
mistic statements which preceded
the fall of Singapore and the made
quate generalship which lost III
Burma"
ut is intentionally reiminiscen
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national magazine devoted to en-
gineering subjects.
. "Citizens of Wilmington should
be proud of their new tlltratlon
plant and other improvements
that have been made in the city $
water supply system" Mr.. Garter
said. "When the Kings Bluff pipe,
line is completed, Wilmington Will
have a water supply system that
will place it on par with Fay
ettevillle, Greensboro and other
1nstate cities in the quality OF its
water, and this should be great
asset to the city. An adequate sup
n1v of fresh water undoubtedly will
encourage the development of ma
nv industries in Wilmington after
the war;"
Mr.. Carter recently inspected
waterworks improvements at Eliz-
abeth City and Newport, R. l.,
which also were constructed with
the assistance of Federal Works
Agency. Discussing Wilmington $
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|B0MBERS RETURN
TO BLAST TRUK

LIE D HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Monday, April
17.-LP)-A record bomb load OF
284 tons have been unloaded on
the Japanese base of Aitape on the
north coast of New Guinea, while
other bombers returned to hit
Truk in the Carolina group to the
North.
Aitape is midway between We
wax and Hollandia, both of which
have caught terrific pounding
during April. Aitape has one air.
drome.
American bombers in their new
est raid on Truk unloaded their
bombs despite an unusual amount
of interrogation, and in raid on
Puluwat atoll 200 miles to the
west damaged Japanese vessel.
American airmen have dumped
a mighty aggregate of bombs along
this important sector of the New
Guinea north coast the past two
weeks, hitting Hollandia with 1884
tons, WeWak with 873 tons and
Hansa Bay farther south with I'll
tons.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique today said bombing op-
erations ranged more than 1000
statute miles from the Carolines
west to Timor, north of Western
Australia.
The Truk raid was carried out
lCOntinued on Pare TUa. Col u
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GENERAL SILENT
ON PRESIDENCY
M'Arthur Breaks Long ST.
lence On Politics To
Issue Statement

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Monday, April
17-tR-Gen. Douglas Macarthur
today broke. his long silence on
American political affairs to issue
a statement which left wide open
the question of whether he would
accept the Republican presidential
candidacy if it were offered him
or if he were drafted
In the written statement, about
which no comment was available
from the generals spokesman,
Macarthur did point out positive
ly but politely that his remarks had
been forced upon him by the re-
lease by Rep. A. L. Miller (R-Nebr)
of their correspondence which Mac
Arthur said was never intended
for publication.
Macarthur repudiated the Ameri-
can press charges that he has
been disloyal to his commander-in-
chief in the White House. The gen.
eral acknowledged Congress- pre-
eminence as a laW-making body
and repeated assertions made dur
ing the last two years that he is
devoting his energies exclusively
to the job of soldering.
Despite his restrained and care
fully chosen language, MacArthus s
statement still could be interpreted
as falling in any one of three
categories summed up in noW-his-
toric utterances:
Q) II do not choose to run;
ca "Bargus is willing;" 90 Its
wonderful chance for somebody,
else, not me-"
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GAS 0VERCOMES
KLEIN ROAD MAN

C. H. Cummings, 1927 Klein road,
Princess Place, was overcome by
gas fumes yesterday morning, ).
I1,ddie Groom, city fire chief, re-
ported.
Chief Groom, R. N. Sellers, and
W. E. Bum, who arrived at lO:55
am, found Cummings lying in the
backward where he had been drag.
ged from under the house by his
wife and a neighbor. He was adj
ministrated oxygen by inhalator by
the personnel of the fire depart
ment and carried to James Walk.
er Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Cummings stated to Chie1
Groom that her husband had at
tempted to move the gas meter to
thread the pipe in order to remove
the meter from a passway under
the house.
Hospital authorities revealed last
night that Cummings condition
was Satisfactory.
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continued on Page Two; Col. y

recent additions to Wilmington's
"aVerWorks facilities and compile
l0A Of the water supply line to
AlAgS Bluff, which will be put
mo operation next Fall, not only
VIII assure a year-round supply
VI Salt-free water for the city but
also should be an important fac
wi IN the city's postwar indus
N MAJ development, according to A..
y Carter, assistant editor OF the
York,
M. Mr. Carter spent Thursday and
s rIloay IN Wilmington, inspecting
D, stfuctlon activities on the King
o .t pipeline and interviewing city
", guiClals and representatives Of
;a ederal Works Agency, gather
a 1s material for a technical arti'
Wy, describing the city's water
, mgIAS Improvements. The article
" HN appear in an early issue o.
VIC Engineering News-Record.
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MORE SECRET U.S..
FILES REVEALED
Agency Tells How Japs
PIotte d Attack On
Hawaii Is Years Ago

WASHINGTON, April 16. -(P)-
In the very act of signing treaty
outlawing war, the japanese gov
eminent took care Is years ago
to leave a diplomatic door open
for it's attack or Pearl Harbor.
Japanese hedging on the Kellogg
remuneration of war pact was re-
vealed today in two volumes OF
1929 diplomatic documents pub
lished by the State Department.
The hitherto secret papers also
disclosed that in the same year,
pare down their naval forces as a
the U. S. and Britain agreed to
step to promote peace. A tenta-
tive proposal under which neither
nation would build bases in the
hemisphere in which the other is
situated also was considered at the
Rapidan, Va, conference between
President Hoover and British
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon'
ald.
Macdonald, in an exchange oil
memoranda, apparently agreed te
the proposal at that time, but lat
err his secretary advised the sec
rotary of state that the plan was
not considered workable. There
were no further papers relating
to the subject.
The papers showed the public
for the first time the diplomatic
contortions the japanese went
through to keep American war
ships out of inundated Marshall
island ports, including Kwajaleln
and Maloelap, atolls now figuring
in the American offensive across
the Central Pacific.
While protesting devotion to the
principles of the treaty against
war, negotiated by then Secretary
Of State Frank Kellogg, the Jap
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OTHER CITIES HIT
Casualties Reported Heavy
In Attack On Balkan
City By Yanks

LONDON, April 16.-LP'-Amer-
lean bombers from the Mediterra-
mean, area heavily raided Belgrade,
capital of Yugoslovia, for the first
time today, the German DNB agen-
cy reported, and also hit several
other southeastern European cit
les, including Brasov, Romania.
The German agency's broadcast
said damage and casualties were
heavy in Belgrade and its environs
a the Americans attacked through
clouds.
Brasov, also known as Krons-
tadt, is an industrial center of the
Pennsylvania area 80 miles north
northwest of Bucharest. The Ger
man account said the American
raids were fiercely opposed by
German and Romanian fighter
planes.
The reported raid on Belgrade
was the first ever made by the
Allies and the first of any sort
since the Germans laid waste to
the city with heavy raids April 6,
1941, when they invaded Yugosla.
via. The German bombers were
reported at the time to have kill
ed about 10000 persons.
Belgrade, now capital of the
German puppet state of Serbia, is
one of the most important cross
roads from central Europe to the
Middle East AS such, it has been
German headquarters for all the
Balkans since last October.
The city, situated at the conflu-
ence of the Sava and Danube riv-
ers, had peacetime population OF
about 100000.
Brasov is SO miles north of the
Romanian oil center of Ploesti and
only 100 miles from the Red army
front in Romania - the nearest
the American bombers have We
come to the Russian lines. 1t is
the center of road and rail net
work through the Pennsylvania
and Carpathian passes and has q
peacetime population of $4,000.
The Balkan raids followed inau-
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: alta, Key Crimean City,
Falls To Soviet Troops

in Bessarabia and killing 1900 Ger
mans and they rapidly expanded
their bridgehead. One captured viii
lage, Ursoya, was 10 miles beyond
the Dnestr's west bank, seven
miles south of Tighina, and IS
miles southeast of Chisnau.
This new operation was carried
out by Gen. Rodion Y. Malinoks-
ky's Third Ukraine Army which
liberated Odessa, and the Rus
slams were aiming at the collapse
of the east-west Chisinau-Iasi de-
tense line guarding the approaches
to the Galati Gap in southern Ro-
mania.
A special announcement also said
that Marshal Ivan S. Koven's Sc
cond Ukraine Army had killed or
captured 145, 1893 enemy troops be-
tween March and April Is in the
offensive which carried it from the
Bug River sector Of the Ukraine
to point so miles inside Roman
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By HOWARD SUBTLE
Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, April 16.-Post-
ponement in the Senate, for at
least another seven days, of de-
bate on the pending anti-poll tax
bill provides for a fight slate in
the upper body during the COM
ing week, but the House will move
into post-recess high gear, with
plans under way to dispose of leg
islation continuing the lend-lease
program and other important
measures.
Originally slated to be called up
when the Senate meets tomorrow,
the anti-poll tax bill was postpon-
ed until April "a. Jubiliant lead
ers of the strong Southern bloc
opposing the measure were predict
ing today that its sponsors may
not make the annual attempt to
bring the measure to considera-
ton. These Southerners, using the
filibuster, have succeeded in talk
ing to death similar proposals
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TornadoHits
Ceorgia,S.C.;
40 Are Killed
500 OTHERS HURT
storm Cuts 100 Mile Path
Of Destruction Through
Northern Georgia

ATLANTA, April 16-tR-At least
N rprsons were killed and more
.tor Zoo others were injured by a
s tornado that cut a 100-mile
~, Of destruction across north
sos+ Georgia and western South
Carolina today. Property damage,
vnestjmated, was considered high.
Georgia was hit hardest. The As
,ociated Press and the Red Cross
+abulated q deaths in Georgia
p in the Royston area an6 nine in
Hart County, where eight of them
died in the Nuburg community.
Nineteen persons were reported
killed in South Carolina.
The twister, moving erratically
in advance of severe rain squalls
and electrical disturbances, ap-
narentlv struck first near Gains
Vile, Ga. That's the scene of an
other spring tornado in 1886 that
killed 1888 persons. Two homes were
demolished near GAINESVILLE, but
onlv four persons were hurt.
About 100 injuries were reported
in the vicinity of Royston. More
than a score of houses were de-
stroyed, one killing a family OF
five.
Eight died and $50 others were
injured at Greenwood, S. c., and
its vicinity. Greenwood's two
story city hospital was virtually
demolished but no patients were
hurt
Four were killed and a score
more injured at Abbeville, S. c.
Two died at Iva, S. c., The Red
Cross reported four death at Pros
perity, S. c., and Sligh's, in New
berry County, S. c., about II homes
and buildings we're leveled there.
One was killed at Little Mountain,
sc.
In Royston, the Methodist church
was taken over by the Red Cross
as an emergency hospital ward
for 10 injured, while Is others
were treated at two private hos
pitals. Many seriously injured were
taken by ambulance to Athens,
Ga, Elberton, Ca, and Anderson.
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NO B GASOLINE
BOOST IN SIGHT

WASHINGTON, April 16.-R'-
Hope for an increase in the gaso-
line ration of "B'' card motorists
faded tonight as a high Official
of the Office of Price Admins
tration reported that on the basis
of a consumption survey just COM
pleted increases are not war
ranted anywhere in the country.
Although unable to make public
the figures on automotive fuel
consumed, the official said he
thought the survey made it plain
that no increase could be allow
ed.
Consumption in March in the
East and Midwest was just about
even with quotas, he said, While
a saving of several thousand bar
rels of gasoline day would be
necessary for any ration boost.
"As for the West Coast" he ad-
ded, IAN increase is definitely out
of the question"
The official stressed that the IL
nal decision as to whether there
will be any increase lies with OPA
Rationing Chief Col. Bryan Hous-
ton. who is due back in Washing
ton tomorrow.
In the meantime, with inven-
tories of new synthetic passenger
car tires now at safe mar
gin, tire ration quotas for essen
tial civilian drivers will be In
creased slightly in May, it was
learned.
May tire quotas, it was under.
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ROYSTON TORNADO
FATAL TO TWENTY

ROYSTON, Ca, April 16.-(R-
A tornado tearing through north
east Georgia early today killed
at least 20 persons, injured more
than $50 and Uttered the country
side with the wreckage OF many
homes.
Driving hail and rain before 1t
and accompanied by spectacular
electrical displays, the wind roar
ed over red hills of this farming
community and adjoining Hart
county, killing twelve persons
here and iniuring about 100. Eight
were killed in Hart county ana
more than so injured.
Striking first in the vicinity OF
GAINESVILLE, Ga, where l03 per-
sons died and 200 were injured in
tornado in 1886, the storm
wrecked two houses at New Hol-
land, injuring four persons. 1t
Jumped to the Royston area, hit
ting three miles south of here
and skipping from one side Of
HE highway 10 the other. Some
homes in the path Of the storm
were left unchanged and others
were torn apart as though they
we're cardboard
huge trees were uprooted ano
nose left standing were cluttereo
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Emergency Call For
Volunteer Nurses For
The Navy Is Issued

WASHINGTON, April 16.-(P,-
An emergency call for 1900 more
volunteer nurses to join the Navy
Nurse Corps was issued today by
Miss Mary Beard, director of Red
Cross nursing service, official re-
cruitment agency.
Navy nurses are being sent over
seas in increasing numbers, Miss
Beard said in asking civilian nurs-
es now classified Ia to volunteer
Immediately at local Red Cross
recruitment stations or write to
national headquarters here.
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Sumter Plans Prayer
For Allied Troops
When Invasion Starts

SUMTER, S. c., April 16. -P-
II and when the United Nations
begin their western invasion, the
entire city of Sumter will observe
an hour of prayer in the various
churches.
Mayor Fulton B. Creech has is
sued a proclamation calling on all
to observe the special services, and
business houses have agreed to
cooperate.
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Fair and windy
Monday; somewhat cooler Monday after
noon and evening.
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-03

More than "a good raisin bran
cereal. This is KELLoGG'S RAIsIN
400 BRAN FLAKEs-tru1y golden
crispy flakes, with tasty seedless
raisins. The flakes stay crisp in
milk longer-they're extra deli
cious. Good food, too, cause
they're made of soft white winter
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-08-03
Hit Y, 4ol Flying Targets;
Record of 1907 Unbroken

Still unbroken is the record for
shooting at and hitting the largest
number of flying targets, which
was made by Adolph Topperwein
in San Antonio, Texas, in Decem-
Der, 1907, says Golfers.
Firing a .22-caliber repeating
rifle continuously eight hours a
day for 10 days, he hit all but nine
of 1880 21a-inch wood blocks
tossed in the air Is feet from him,
his longest run without a miss be-
ing IA $50 targets.