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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-05-13

are in the armed forces and a
daughter is in the WACs.
Earl Bolt, son Of Mrs Ruth
Bolt Smith, who has been in
the service 3 years is now in
Italy after campaign in Al
RIGA. Young Bolt enlisted at the
age Of 10.
Sgt Clifford Crawford writes
from Burma to the Bay State
Golf club he is more afraid Of
the jungle snakes than of the
Japs."
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-05-13
Stars and
Stripes

James Woodlyn of the Mer-
chant Marine, after fl V e
months in England is back
home on visit to his moth
er, Mrs Marionette ScruggS.
Pvt Timothy Lawson, son Of
Mrs George H Walker, % Law
renee ave, Boston, Mass, has
reported at Keesler Field, Bill
oXi, Miss. and is now under
going Army processing to de-
termine his qualifications as a
pre-aviation cadet.
Staff Sgt Samuel w Wilson,
Jr of Fayerweather st, Cam
bridge, is home on Through
from Fl Warren, Wyoming,
where he is attached to the
Quartermaster Corps. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs Samuel
Wilson and was formerly a
member of Rindge Tech track
team.
Pfc Victor Storms, who is
somewhere in North Africa,
writes home to his parents,
Rev and Mrs F H Storms, West
st, Everett of the fighting in
Sicily. While some of his COM
rades fell in battle on every
side Of him and the air was
filled with shot and shell, he
said, he at no time received an
injury of any kind. Four other
sons of Rev and Mrs Storms
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Posts in Badog|io Regime
Refused by Party Leaders
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NAPLES, Jan. 24-1talian political
leaders said yesterday that an at
tempt by Premier Marshal Badoglio
to broaden party representation in
his government had failed because
King Victor Emmanuel refused to
abdicate.
Party leaders announced they had
rejected the offer of a place in the
government made to them by Ba-
doglio last Thursday for this reason.
AS result, members Of the Naples
Committee of National Liberation,
including six political parties, said
an effort to force the Kings abdica-
ton would be made at a joint three
day convention of the parties at
Bari beginning Friday. Whether
they could bring this about, however,
is extremely problematical.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Steel Plate Rush
Expected 10 Reach
Peak in February
BY the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, January 24.-The
magazine Steel said today that
while pressure for landing craft
material, mainly plates, may pass
its crest during February, consid-
cradle urgency is likely to be noted
for some time after"
Meanwhile this program is not
only pushing shipyard activity to
high peak but also providing
many fabricating shops with needed
business in subassemblies," the
publications weekly survey added.
1T also is creating added demand
for heavy sheets, bars and struc-
turals"
The magazine observed that air
craft and heavy artillery require
ments are expanding, but increases
in certain lines "are not yet appreci-
ably under way" Steel reported a
new type Of incendiary bomb would
require sheets in quantity.
Various changes in the war pro-
gram" it said, continue to bring
cancellations and changes in mill
schedules. but gaps are promptly
fllled and pressure for heavy steel
production is not relaxed.
Recently sheets appeared most
affected, with frequent opportunity
to obtain early delivery, despite the
fact that in general shipments are
as far extended as in any major
product. New orders continue to
more than offset Cancelled tonnage
and deliveries are being extended
on most major products.
The national steel production
rate remained last week at SO per
cent of theoretical capacity.
Evening star., 1944-01-24

can be bottled up at Casino anc
Rome may fall as a reward for the
operation
But there was every indication
that the Germans, who have nine
divisions (possibly 100000 troops
in the awkward pocket below thu
Allied west coast landing area, woule
fight desperately to repair thell
tactical error.
CA Vichy broadcast today said
Allied units we're driven back
east of Mount Croce northeast of
Casino and that German units
had recaptured territory between
Castelforte and Minturno on the
coastal flank of the line)
Patrol Skirmishes.
Dispatches from the beaches yes.
terday reported only skirmishes with
enemy patrols and some enemy ar.
tillery fire, but all left the impres-
sion the Germans could be expected
to counterattack at any moment.
Axis broadcasts told of new land
ings somewhere along the 80-mile
stretch between the mouth OF the
Tiber to the Gulf of Gaeta, and g
dispatch from one correspondent in
dicated this might be true, but there
was no immediate confirmation
from headquarters.
The Vichy radio declared new
landings were made at Terracins
and in the Gulf of Gaeta area
south of the Pontine Marshes ano
just beyond the end of the Ger
mans line across Italy.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Nazis Make Strong Bid
For Semi, South Of Fiume
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 24.-Yougoslav
Partisan headquarters announced
today that the Germans were reck-
lessly throwing men and materials
into costly and bloody bid for Semi,
Croat coastal town IS miles south
Of Fiume.
Marshal Josip Broz' (Tto's)
broadcast communique said heavy
losses were being inflicted on the
invader along an 18-mile front be-
tween Semi and Otocac.
The Hungarian News Agency, in a
broadcast heard by Reuters, quoted
a Zagreb announcement that Semi
already had been occupied by. Ger
man and Croat troops and that
mopping up operations had been
completed on Hvar Island farther
down the coast.
The Yugoslav bulletin reported
that heavy fighting continues in
Western Bosnia, while street fight
ing is raging at Tuzla in Eastern
Bosnia. Occupation of racanica
and destruction of a rail line by the
Yugoslav troops also were an
nounced.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Rites for Henry 7. Norson,
DEW Official Set Tomorrow

Henry T. Norson, 40, business
manager in foreign service for the
Office of Economic Warfare, died
Saturday night at his home in Nc
Lean Gardens, in Friendship, after
an illness Of several months.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted by the Rev. Hartwell Chan
dler of Bethesda Methodist Church
at Humphreys funeral home, Be-
thesda, at pm. tomorrow. Burial
will be In Clarksburg, Md.
Mr.. Norson, a native Of England,
had been in Government service
about Is years, being connected
with the Post Office and Navy De-
partments and the General Ac-
counting Office before joining the
DEW staff. He was on a business
trip to South America when stricken
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Grace Dutrow Norson, and a small
daughter, Sandra.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Chicoqo Livestock

CHICAGO, Jan. "a tq, fWFAl.-Salabl,
hogs. %. 900; total, 10000; fairly active
most action on weights under 200 pounds
upon broad order buyer demand: good
and choice 100000 pounds steady a
1875 TO top: other weights strong to !
higher: sows strong: good and choice $50.
100 rounds, IL .25-13.35: 3lO-35O pounc
heavies. Il 2.60-l3 90; good and choice $50.
$50 pound sovs, II .SO-12 90: choice 300.
sold
Salabie cattle, 21,OOO: salable calves
', 900; richly choice fed steers and year.
linss. including yearlins heifers. arm: al
other Erades steady; general trade fairly
active; top 1900 paid for long yearlini
steers also mixed steers and heifers: mex
highest price. 1885: killing quality both
steer and heifer run only medium to aver.
age-sood, suggesting q liberal supply short
Ieds: most steers "A 4.5O-l625; compar rabl,
heifers, 13.OO-15 so: strictly choice
beef soVs & others snd sH
steady to weak: practically top heavy saus
ase bulls, 1l.50: cutter cows, 7.15 down
vealers hrm at 1900 down; stock cattle
very scarce at 10.50-l225.
Salable sheep, 5000: total. 10000: earl,
sales all classes fully steady; two load
good and choice fed wooled Western lamb,
to shippers, 1890; several loads hele
and short load fed lambs. $50: common
light lambs, II .00-12 90; deck Gull anc
common around 63-pound weights, IL 90
few yearling wethers and ewes mixed
1850, odd lots native slaughter ewes
Evening star., 1944-01-24
100000 Fund Ready
To Relocate Doctors
Nv theAssocisted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Funds are now available for NOV
ing physicians and dentists to COM
munities suffering from lack OF pro-
fessional health services, Surg. Gen
Thomas Parran of the United States
Public Health Service announced
today.
DR.. Parran said 100000 will be
used to relocate medical and dental
practitioners. The fund will meet
the costs of moving the physician
and his family and will provide pay
ments OF $3.50 a month for three
months while the transferred prac-
titioner is establishing his new prac-
tice.
Under the relocation plan, the
transferred professional man agrees
to remain in the new community at
least a year, and the community re-
questing his assignment contracts to
reimburse the Public Health Service
fer one-fourth of the relocation ex-
pense.
The Public Health Service esti-
mates that 600 physicians and den
fists will be needed in 1914 IN
shortage areas.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
By REYNOLDS PACKARD,
For the Combined United States Press
Distributed by the Associated Press.

For the Combined United States Press.
Distributed by the Associated Press.
WITH AMERICAN AMPHIBIAN
FORCES ON THE NEW BEACH
HEAD IN ITALY, Jan. % Delayed
Most doughboys and officers felt
let down today as a result of the
lack of fighting during this morn
ing's landings.
These landings were carried out
with unprecedented speed and the
troops were ready for any eventu-
atty 1t was terrific psychological
experience preparing for it over sew
eral days and then, when the final
moment came, there was no enemy.
Capt. Crowell B. Shelton of Bill
ings, Mont, told me as we waded
out knee deep In icy water to the
shore from our Higgins boat:
II was never more set for big
fight for keeps than this morning" :"
Every soldier and officer was pre-
pared to die in this operation which
this afternoon seemed to have
turned anticlimactic.
I spent three nights aboard
LIST before the landing occurred.
There was an atmosphere of ten
sion in which each man faced the
impending danger. Some joked
about it. Others laughed and pre-
tended to be funny, but always
there was this determination to
face landing dangers without show
ing any lack of courage.
A few hours before disembarking
from our LIST, special religious
services were held aboard ship,
which most men attended. There
were confessions and communion
for Catholics and prayers for all.
Then we climbed over the sides OF
our LIST down the cargo net into a
Higgins boat for the run to the
shore.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Eisenhower 10 Head
|AII j. :. Forces in
European Theater
BY the Associated Press.

oy VIC AeoOSlutSQ FISSS.
LONDON, Jan. 24.-All American
forces In the European theater OF
operations will be under the COM
mand Of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, who has assumed this post
in addition to his duties as supreme
commander Of the main Allied in
vasion forces.
Allied headquarters announced
this yesterday and also disclosed
that Gen. Eisenhower had named
Maj. Gen. John C. H. Lee his deputy
United States commander in the
European theater and had appointed
Maj. Gen. w. B. Smith as his chief
Of staff.
The announcement said Gen.
Eisenhower's action in assuming
command of American forces was
designed to "streamline" head
quarters in order to free officers
and enlisted men for field duty. Gen.
Lee will act in all appropriate
cases" for Gen. Eisenhower.
Gen. Lee remains commanding
general OF the services Of supply and
will have other duties which cannot
now be disclosed. Gen. Smith retains
his post as chief of staff of the su-
preme headquarters Of the Allied
expeditionary force.
Col. Royal Lord, who perfected
mobile pillboxes and the cable river
crossing device now used by the
American Army, has been appointed
deputy chief of staff TO rthe Euro
pean theater in addition to his
duties as chief of staff of the serv-
ices Of supply.
Col. Lord, who was graduated from
West Point with the class of 1928
also is writer.
In 1910 he was the Army's director
Of public relations and has been
stationed in the European theater
OF operations since 1912. He is a
was born in Worcester, Mass, and
lived for time at Pawtucket, r. I.
His wife now lives in Washington,
Evening star., 1944-01-24

the overcrowding resulting from war
conditions.
Senator Burton said he was i'm
pressed by the fact that the slurn
reclamation program, although rec
ognized as urgent by the Parks and
Planning Commission in 1890, should
have produced so few actual results
He asked Gen. Grant for a COM
prehensive report from the Parks
and Planning Commission within a
month, reviewing the 10-year his
tory of the NCHA and making rec
concentrations as to the agency's
future.
John Nolen, jr, director of plan
ming for the Parks and Planning
Commission, also testified before the
subcommittee today, presenting fig
ures to show the location OF the
worst Slum areas. The hearings
Will be resumed tomorrow, when the
District Commissioners and CORPORA
ton Counsel Richmond B. Keech
will appear.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Housing
Continued From First Page.)

said, would be more Of a burden
on the public than doing the con-
struction work itself"
Gen. Grant defended the 1O-year
record of the NCHA, maintaining
that while the agency has reclaimed
few slums, the failure has been due
to lack of funds. He said the Parks
and Planning Commission, when 1t
fathered the NCHA in 1884, recon-
mended an original appropriation of
S3,000,000, to be used as a revolv-
ing fund for slum reclamation work.
The agency actually received only
s865, 900, he said.
The NCHA cleared only IA of the
$50 inhabited alleys that in 1890
were earmarked for reclamation, be-
fore the war halted its slum work
and channeled its efforts into con-
struction of defense and war hous-
ing.
In 1880 there were 2,4o0 alley
dwellings in the District, housing
1900 to .13 900 persons, Gen. Grant
said. He expressed belief that the
situation IS worse now, because o1
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Germans Know War
Is Lost, but Stall for
Escape, Writer Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Henry J.
Taylor. Scripps-Howard reporter
just back from a trip to many parts
of the world, said last night Ger
many knew she was losing the war
but was out to stall and operate de-
fensive armies while trying to create
new political conditions to allow her
"once more to escape"
Mr.. Taylor addressed a Newspaper
Women's Club forum, Report on
the Enemy Nations" which heard
Sigrid Schultz, author and former
Berlin correspondent for the Chi
cago Tribune, declare that Kaiser
Wilhelm was deposed after the last
war to give Germany breathing
spell" and that the Nazi generals
today would be willing to sacrifice
Hitler for the same reason"
Mr.. Taylor deplored what he
termed lack of policy In United
States foreign relations and said he
would prefer to see this Government
have a bad policy in some places
than to have no policy at ALL"
The missing link in our policy"
Mr.. Taylor said, "is the failure to
appreciate the importance of time.
Unless we expect to lose the polit-
ical war we should either revise the
personnel OF those in the Govern
ment responsible for our political
commitments or give the compe-
tent men in the Government a
chance to make binding commit
ments-not treaties, but yes or mo-
to some of the thugs who are trying
to jump on our bandwagon."
Miss Schultz said the Germans so
feared Russian retaliation that they
would try frantically to bring about
a negotiated peace" as the Reds
approach their border. She said the
war would end when the Germans
learn they cannot create disunity
among the Allies.
1t. Comdr. William H. McGovern
of naval operations, who has trav-
eled widely in Japan and who wit
messed the New Georgia invasion
and other successful Allied South
Pacific operations, said that jap
anese were more Nazi in theology
than the Nazis of Germany and
that "only with our own patriotism
can we defeat the Japanese, with
their fanatical regard for the En-
peror."
Mrs. Ogden Reid, New York Her
aid Tribune vice president, pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Congress
Continued From First Page.p

Senator Taft, Republican, OF Ohio.
that the Federal ballot might throw
the whole election into legal tall
spin," Senator Green said consti-
tutional objections can be raised
against any bill, but added he did
not think fear of court action should
deter Congress from passing the
proposed compromise.
Advocates of the Federal ballot
contend it will not be possible to get
bulky State ballots to and from the
fighting fronts in time. Supporters
of the Eastland-Rankin State con-
troll bill declare a Federal ballot
would be unconstitutional and would
deprive servicemen of vote for
State and local candidates. since the
Federal ballot covers only the presi-
dency and congressional elections.
Legislative Pile-up.
A legislative pile-up, including the
soldier vote, subsidies, taxes, mus
tering-out pay and foreign relief
operations, may make this the
busiest week yet faced by the Sew
enty-eighth Congress.
Legislation on those subjects tops
a program into which will be
crowded committee action on ma
tional service, postwar aviation and
war contract termination, and pos
sibly the first regular departmental
appropriation bill of 1914.
BY way of starter, the House
was ready to vote today on legis-
lation to finance United States par
ticipation in the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admins
tration. the organization to aid civil
ians of Axis-overrun countries as
soon as they are liberated.
May Limit Agency's Life.
Passage of the measure, author
izing expenditure of the 81, $50, 900, :
600 by this country-or more than
one-half the total to be furnished
by all the nations-was a foregone
conclusion, but Republicans were
expected to unite behind an amend
ment to limit the life of the pro-
gram. The legislation has not been
acted on by the Senate.
Subsidy Action Due.
The subsidy battle centers around
the administrations demands for a
81 500 100000 program to subsidize
retail food prices. The Senate
Banking Committee has recon-
mended legislation barring almost
all food subsidies after next June
80. Stop-gap legislation enacted
during the closing hours of the first
session last December permits con-
tiruance of the program only until
February II.
Senate House conference commit
tees hoped to reach agreement dur
ing the week on mastering out pay
and the sharply shaved tax bill. The
Senate has voted for discharge pay
ranging from 5000 to $500; the House
approved 500 and $500.
Holding up passage Of the tax bill
is disagreement between Senate and
House on changes in the war con-
tracts renegotiation law and on Sen
ate removal Of a House provision In
the $2,275 900 900 measure integral
ing the Victory tax with the indi-
Hdual income tax.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
| Your u. ). Income Tax
(This Is No. p of n Series

(This Is No. % of Series.)
Many persons have income from
dividends, even though often small
in amount. This income must be
reported for Federal income tax
purposes to the extent that it rep
resents taxable income.
Income from dividends is entered
on line 2 of the income tax return.
Dividends in general represent dis
tributions Of earnings and profits
by a corporation or association to
its shareholders and are taxable in
come. In certain cases, however,
such as the liquidation of a bank
or other corporation. dividends may
represent recovery of the share
holders original investment and to
that extent would not constitute in
come, but return of original cap
ital and accordingly would not be
taxable.
In certain cases also such as min
ing companies declaring dividends
out of depletion reserves, the divi-
dend may represent wholly or par
TALLY return of investment. Per-
sons receiving dividends of this
character are usually advised by the
corporation as to the amount which
it considers to be nontaxable as a
return of capital. 1t is appropriate
for the taxpayer to enter in his re-
turn the amounts received in ac-
cordance with the advice by the
N0rfl0ro fiNr, hut ~ oh L>
in mind that the determination of
the taxable amount may be subject
to revision as result of official
audit of the corporations return.
Dividends on share accounts in
Federal savings and loans associa-
tions on shares issued prior to
March %, 1912, are subject to both
normal tax and suratx.
For taxpayers on a cash basis
that is, reporting income as re-
ceived and expenses as paid-divi-
dend income is reported as received.
Dividend income is considered as
received when the dividend check
is received, irrespective of when the
taxpayer may cash the check.
Where stock is sold and dividend
is both declared and paid after the
sale it is income to the purchaser
of the stock. If the stock is sold
after the date of declaration and
before the date of payment of a
dividend the dividend is income to
the seller if received by him., If,
however, it is received by a pur-
chaser who had included the
amount in his purchase price in
contemplation Of the next dividend
it is income to him and the amount
which he advanced to the seller in
anticipation of the dividend is not
deductible by him, because that
amount was merely part OF the cost
to him of the stock and the receipt
OF the dividend is not a return Of
his cost.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Provdo Says Nozi Efforts
To Split Allies Have Failed

LONDON, Jan. "a (P).-The Russian
newspaper Pravda, which published
a Cairo-dated "rumor" a week ago
about alleged British German peace
talks, declared today Hitler had
failed in "all his political and diplo-
matte maneuvers" to destroy Allied
unity.
A Moscow broadcast recorded by
the Soviet monitor quoted Pravda
as saying:
THE Moscow and Teheran confer
ences are splendid illustra-
ton of the bankruptcy Of the Hit
lerite calculations; they evidence the
strengthening Of a new unity be-
tween the countries of the anti
Hitlerite coalition"
Pravda's publication of the Cairo
story prompted quick and emphatic
British Foreign Office denial.
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Landing AnticIimox to Troops
Prepared for Bitter Battle

We pushed of and joined the
floating conveys of ducks, LISTS
Higgins boats. LCIS, etc., all con-
verging toward the beaches, which
blinked with the red, yellow ano
green lights marking them, anc
which have since been nicknameo
Red Beach, Green Beach, etc.
Everybody was hushed, feeling the
silence. The stiffness of the night
was ominous when we reached shore
No broadsides of bullets, no bursts
Of mortars or shells were about us
We slogged down the open ramp
into the icy waters and, holding uI
our coats, ran onto the beaches with
luggage on our backs.
Already tanks were beginning tc
roll up the beaches in record time
and we were close behind the
main assault force. Everything
was blurred in the starlight, anc
even when the crescent-shapeo
moon came out and we could see
better we wondered where was the
opposition.
The LISTS continued like whale.
to spew their contents on the
beaches-tanks, jeeps, trucks and ar.
tillery.
When the beachhead was won
combat engineers swiftly cleared
away the mines and built carpet
like roads of heavy wire mating
which were thrown across the sandy
beaches through marshes until they
reached the regular roads, including
the Anzio to Rome highway.
AS the day wore on the Germans
first made brief air raids and ther
started some shelling. They hac
been caught completely by surprise
as otherwise they would certainly
have counterattacked before night.
fall
Evening star., 1944-01-24
Vienna Gau|eiter Reported
Baked in Escape Plan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 24.-A Swedish
girl who returned from Vienna re-
Gently told the newspaper Allehanda
that the gauleiter of Vienna, Baldur
Won Schirach, was rumored to have
planned an escape to Switzerland
in the manner of Rudolf Hess fight
to England, but the project collapsed
when the SIS elite Guard) learned
of it.
Won Schirach. former Hitler youth
leader and favorite of Hitler re-
putedly was placed under guard but
retained his title of gauleiter be-
cause of German fear that any out
ward change might reveal his disaf-
fection.
The Swedish girl, who spent nine
months as a housemaid in Vienna
and Southern Austria, said the av-
erage Viennese had lost 80 pounds
due to the desperate food situation.
A black market thrives, she added.
with cigarettes selling as high as
20 cents apiece.