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accusing the government OF squan-
dering billions on "boondoggling. >
The statement was in answer to
Secretary Morgenthau who said in
Washington yesterday that 'to adj
wise citizens to refuse to pay tax
es-particularly in time of war
smacks of disloyalty."
She said in the statements he
cid not have money to pay her
tax, that when she got enough
money she planned to put it in
the bank as postwar reserve
and if Secretary Morgenthau re-
garded that as treason he would
have to make the most of it. -
Il agree with the secretary that
millions of patriotic American cit
liens, of which l am one, MIR.
Morgenthau's insulting slur to the
contrary, are not only proud but
eager to pay taxes to win the
war;" said Miss Kellems, who was
here to deliver lecture at Hard
ing college.
"But those same millions, of
which I am still one, are not will
ing to pay taxes SO that billions
of dollars may be squandered on
plain and fancy boondoggling not
remotely connected with the war.
1 can be very specific indeed, as
I have first hand knowledge OF
some Of those projects and II 80
secretary and Congress wish, l
shall be most happy to testify be-
fore the proper congressional COM
mittee."
Stating that business men were
''deluging" her with kilograms,
telephone calls and letters OF APP
proval, she asserted:
ITO pay this tax will bankrupt
me. I still think it a patriotic act
for business to set aside a post
war reserve, in other words to put
money in the bank so that it may
continue to have jobs for its en-
ployes when this war is over.
When I get enough money that is
what l propose to do, MIR. Nor
genthau and if that be treason,
make the most of it,"
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ENSIGN PEIFFER
WILL BE H0N0RED
Destroyer Escort To Be
Named For Deceased
Local Man

BOSTON, Jan. 20.-tRl-The de-
stroyer escort vessel, USS Peiffer,
named for the Late Ensign Carl
David Peiffer, naval aviator hero
at the Battle of Midway. will be
launched on Jan. rs at the Bethle-
hem Steel Cornpany's bingham
Shipyard, naval authorities an
nounced today.
The craft will be sponsored by
his mother, Mrs. Frank W. Peiffer
of Wilmington, N. C.
A graduate of North Carolina
University, Ensign Peiffer was pi-
lot of an airplane of the Scouting
Squadron 6 attached to the USS
Enterprise and was awarded the
Navy Cross for pressing home his
attack against the Japanese at the
Battle of Midway.
Ensign Peiffer was graduate
of New Hanover high school, and
the University of North Carolina,
class of 1910. He was a member OF
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and
varsity football player for four
years at Chapel Hill. When he
completed his schooling. he be-
came engaged in the tobacco bust
ness with James S. Ficklen of
Greenville.
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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Raj Blasts Berlin; Rome Reported Raided;
<Zz,cient Bastion OfNoqgorod Falls To Reds;
,Brtish Troops Drive Mazis From Miinturno
little Is Raging
On Italian Coast

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 20.-(R-British troops
fighting doggedly up 500-foot slopes
rising from the historic Appian
Way have driven Nazi defenders
from the important town of Min
turno, two miles from the Garig-
lianc river, the German hign COM
mand announced today, as . bit
ter give and take" battle ragged
along seven-mile front ON the
Italian west coast.
The Nazis said that Minturno, a
key communications center, was
lost to 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark S
advancing forces after having been
completely destroyed" Tie an
Gent town. whose pre-war poplla-
tion was over 5000, was pri-
mary objective CT the new Allied
offensive launched Monday night
at three points across the lower
Carigliano.
While the Nazis conceded Min
turno's fall, the Allied command
announced capture of the villages
of Argento, at the mouth of The
Garigliano; Tufo, a mile northeast
of Minturno, and Suio, seven miles
up the Garigliano from the coast.
Since their initial landings en- the
western bank of the river under
cover of smoke screen, the Brit
ish have encountered a steady sue
cession of minefields and sheets of
machine-gun and artillery fire. The
Aurunci mountains up which thew
are fighting rise at points to 5000
feet.
An Allied spokesman said the
attacking troops had gained firm
possession of their bridgeheads
and were pressing steadily into the
enemy's Notifications, but added
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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JAP AMMUNITION
VESSEL IS SUNK
u. S. Bombers Continue To
Pound The Marshall
Islands

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS. New Guinea, Friday,
Jan. 21-(R)-Navy Catalina bomb
ers have sunk an enemy ammuni-
ton vessel and cargo ship off the
Admiralty islands, north of New
Britain, while other Allied planes
again raided Rabaul, on the north
eastern coast of New Britain.
Twenty-one enemy planes were
downed in the Rabaul raid, while
the Allies lost two, General Doug
las Macarthur communique said
today.
One hundred and fifty-three tons
of bombs were dropped in raid
on the japanese supply and troop
center at Wewak and Cape Boram,
on the northeastern coast of New
Guinea. More than $50 planes par
ticipated in the raid.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 Up -
American bombers have conduct
ed four new raids on the Japanese
in the Marshall islands. damaging
two enemy cargo vessels, stating
fires in fuel storage areas and
damaging or destroying at least
six japanese planes.
The Navy. reporting the raids
today, said four American planes
were lost
The raids took the Army bomb
ers over Mill, labor and Jaltlit.
Al Jaluit two cargo vessels were
damaged in the anchorage. At ia
Dor island fires were started III
fuel storage areas.
Two American planes we're shot
down in the labor attack and two
at Mill.
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RISING SENTENCED
ON TWO CHARGES
Youth Tells Judge He Was
Not Asking Him For
Leniiency

Before being sentenced on two
charges in superior court Thurs
dav afternoon, Robert Rising,
standing before Judge Henry l..
Stevents. Jr., told the Judge that
he was not asking for leniency be-
cause he did not deserve it. He
was without counsel.
For the robbery of the South
side Drug store on December ~,
Rov Hendricks and Robert Rising
we're given a sentence of seven
10 10 years in State prison. Rich
ard Croaker and Bill Rising were
released on charges connecting
them with the robbery.
Earlier in the trial, Richard
Croaker took the stand and testi-
/ fled that Robert Rising had stat
ed 10 him that he (RoberD had
nothing left to live for since his
wife had left him. He said that if
he could secure bullets for Mis- re-
volver. he would shoot it out with
the police, If they came for him.
Croakef was prompted for these
answers as ne was questioned by
Robert Rising. It was evident that
Croaker, who admitted giving aid
to police was hesitant in answer
ing the questions of Rising in re-
lauon to the drug store robbery.
J Aaron Goldburg, counsel for Bill
RlSlng, said that even if the rec
ord Of the prisoner Orchard
Cfoaker) was as black as the
hinges Of Hades, che didn't think
mat evidence against Bill Rising
was purely circumstantial.
Ut. Benson. operator of the drug
Store, took the stand Tuesday aft
eFnoon and testified that there was
between four and five hundred
collars 10 involved in the robbery.
|ol ms, $3.50 was in cash. Accord
I"s 10 the witness, he was unable
10 determine the amount Of moro
'o.leS taken from the store.
R0oert Rising also received q
."o 10 three-year sentence for the
d. and robbery of Mrs. Ed
sard A. Hamilton in a poker party
p'1of to the Christmas holidays.
rive more charges of breaking
s4o entering. larceny and receiv-
await the men before final sem
Vnce can be passed.
florence Davis, Negro, who
.eaded guilty to manslaughter,
s MA 1er hush John, who adj
ull'eo to being an accessory after
Dle TACT in connections with the
continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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MANY NAILS TRAPPED
Action Described AS Skill
full Outflanking Ma
newer

LONDON, Friday, Jan. 21.-R-
The Red army toppled the ancient
bastion of Novgorod yesterday on
the sixth day of a northern often
sive which has cost the Germans
Al, 900 men, and also trapped an
undetermined number of Nazi
troops in the Strelna corridor
southwest of Leningrad, Moacow
bulletin announced today.
Gen. K. A. Meretskov's armies
of the Volkhov front captured Nov
gorod, 100 miles southeast of Len
ingrad on the road to southern
Estonia, by an action officially de-
scribed as a "Skillful outflanking
maneuver. Premier Marshal Sta
lin saluted the important victory
with an order of the day last night.
On the Leningrad front other ar
mics under Gen. Leonid A. Govo-
row, attacking southwest of Lenin-
grad and southeast of Oranien-
baum on the Gulf of Finland, were
declared to have joined forces to
seal off for humiliation the Ger
mans caught in the 50-square mile
Strelna corridor, which ran north
from the Krasnoye Selo sector to
the Gulf of Finland.
The two Red armies together
were shaping massive trap for
$50, 1000 other Germans fighting in
salient southeast of Leningrad.
The latest Soviet communique
disclosed that the Russians under
Govorov were only nine miles from
Krasnogvardeisk, a rail junction
| through which most of the threat
ened enemy troops must Withdraw
toward Estonia if they are to es-
cape the Soviet steam-roller.
Striking southwest of newly cap
tured Krasnoye Selo, Is miles
southwest of ,Lening rad,e the Rus
slams during the day moved on to
take Nizhnaya, four miles below
Krasnoye Selo and only nine miles
from Krasnogvardeisk. Mikhailov-
ka. three miles southwest of Kras-
noye Selo, also was taken in fan
wise movement which resulted in
the union of two big bodies OF
Soviet troops.
The junction of the Soviet forces
at point about 20 miles southwest
of Leningrad trapped the Germans
| in the Strelna area.
| Strelna itself. five miles south.
east of Peterhof which was taker
Wednesday, and 10 miles westward
across the bay from Leningrad,
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
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TODAY and TOMORROW
By WALTER LIPPMANN

or the most enterprising leader,
had any conception of what the
productive capacity of the country
really was. And somehow it has
come to be understood that the
capacity to produce is the real
wealth of a nation, and that its
national debt is not a measure
of the nations, or even of its gov
ernment's, economic position.
il follows that the real economic
consequences of war depend on
how soon and how completely the
productive capacity of the nation
can be restored to civilian use,
and then maintained. In coW-
try which has not been devastated
or dismembered or placed in SUBJ
iugation, the only important eco
nomic consequence of war is the
dislocation of its economy. 1t was
not the wealth shot away in battles
or the economic wastage OF main
taining the great armies which i'm
poverished the world after the last
war; it was the failure of the post
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. y
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Walsh O-Mass.), Conally Cd
Texo, LaFollette Prog-Wis.) and
Lucas O-Il), committee men,
bers who issued a minority report
sharply critical of five of the
amendments approved by a ma
jority Of the 21-member group. All
five of the criticized amendments
either were thrown out or ma
terially modified.
The revisions were written into
the pending $2,275, 600, 900 tax in
crease bill, all other features of
which have been approved by the
senate.
The committee gave up its plan
for mandatory exemption from re-
negotiation of contracts for stand
ard commercial articles, such as
bolts and truck axles and electric
motors. AS in the House bill, ex-
emption of such contracts would
be discretionary with the war
price adjustment board.
Also knocked out was provi-
sion which would have retroactive
ly exempted the profits on articles
which are not physically incorpor-
ated in the finished contract article
such as welding machine at
a shipyard. (The minority report
charged the provision would have
''compelled' war profiteering)
Walsh declared the final Senate
rsion of the renegotiation
amendments was much better
than the revisions which had been
voted by the House. Senator Nc
Kellar D.-Tenn), author of the
original renegotiation law under
which billions of dollars worth OF
war contracts have been examined
for excessive profits, said the COM
promise plan appeared treason
ably satisfactory although he had
not had chance to check it in
detail.
An exception was made. in eff
feet exempting the machine tool
industry. Walsh said so many ma
chine tools had been built to meet
war needs that there would be a
market for few in the first 10 OIL
Is years of peace.
The majority also dropped its
insiStence on an amendment.
which would have exempted agree
ments for articles furnished in
obedience to War Production
Board directive, at or below OPA
ceiling prices.
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NAZI EQUIPMENT
T0BE DISPLAYED
Legion To Sponsor Show
ing In Connection With
Bond Drive

In continuance of the Fourth War
bond campaign, captured German
equipment will arrive in Whining
ton and be parked in front of the
postoffice Friday at 4 pm, the
display will be sponsored by the
American Legion Post No. 10.
The German equipment will con-
sist of one tank destroyer with a
rs nm, gun captured in North AT
RIGA, half-track field kitchen, and
other small pieces. In touring
North Carolina, the display Will
travel 1912 miles and visit SO cities.
A bond selling program begin
ming at Ais pm. with Emmett IL.
Bellamy as master of ceremonies,
will be the feature of the display.
Schedule S follows:
Ais to 4::3O p.m.-Musical Sc
lections of the high school ROTC
band.
4::3O pm.-Invocation and re-
marks by the Rev. Sankey Lee
Blanton.
4::35 p.m.-R e m k S by Mrs.
Vernon G. Avery, president OF the
Gray Ladies organization.
4:4O p.m.-Talk by Lieut.. Heff-
ner. Woman's Army Corps.
4:45 p.m.-Remarks by S. v.
Sneeden. World War hero and
wearer of the Distinguished Serv-
ice Cross.
4::50 p.m.-Recitation by Mrs. j..
Carl Seymour. president of the La
dies Auxiliary American Legion.
Intermission of ten minutes for
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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1t. H. c. HOUSTON
KILLED IN CRASH

SHAW FIELD, S. c., Jan. 20
R-An aviation cadet and his IN
structor died in the crash OF their
training plane IS miles northeast
of this Army flying school today.
The dead:
1t. Herbert C. Houston, %, IN
structor, whose parents are MIR.
and Mrs. Sam. Houston, OF ol5
So. Fourth St. Wilmington, N. G.
and Aviation Cadet Edward e.
Kregas, "a of Chicago, Ill. Gre9as'
wife was visiting him here.
1t. Herbert C. Houston gradual
ed from New Hanover high school
in 1889 and was employed at Foy
Roe company before entering the
service in January 1913.
1t. Houston is survived by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Hous-
ton Of this city; three brothers,
Sam L. Houston, Cpl. Clarence
w. Houston, 1t. L. H. Houston;
and one sister, Mrs. T. S. vii.
liams
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BY WALTER LIPPMANN

/, me size of our war expenditures
n OIL the national debt is so huge
~, s'd' once we would have said it
asaht the impoverishment of the
,s and a permanent lowering
h. h 'ne American standard Of life.
t trS Is not what our people think
w. tsdy' They would, of course, pre-
h.. h. 10 be poorer rather than to
r.e the war and with it their
,." and their national SELF
s s.t. But in fact they do not
!, SpecC to be poorer when the war
n over. There is a deep, even if
tdd ~ not wholly explained, con-
I Ue that, whatever else the
huge a debt portends, we shall not
''g ne crushed by it.
,ro liils confidence a1ises, of course,
~, o' the achievements of Ameri-
soE; industry during this war. The
+ ni is so stupendous that
jna oilnost certainly marks the open
Efo Vi new epoch in the economic
ae VI the world. Even as recently
eyo,s sH[ee years ago nobody, not
vi me boldest economic thinker
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Gov. Broughton Urges
Carolinians To Back
Polio Fund Campaign
RALEIGH, jan. 90 Up -

RALEIGH, jan. 90 up -
Governor Brougter today call
ed for a generous response
to the call for funds for COM
batting infantile paralysis DUR
ing the annual fund raising ap-
peal which continues through
January 81.
The appeal, he said, is a
worthy one. He added that
North Carolinians always had
contributed generously TO
drives headed by the Nation
al Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
contributions ma4e to this
worthy cause.-The aleviating Of
suffe-1ngs. and handicaDS of
those afflicted by the disease
can be considered very
American gesture" he said.
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Sales Of War Bonds
Total $622,000,000,
Headquarters Says

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-R
War Bond sales credited to
the Fourth War Loan totalled
S622, 600, 900 through last night,
or little more than II per cent
of the $500, 10000 goal set
fog individual purchases.
The figure, embracing sales
since January l although the
drive did not open formally
until Tuesday, was reported to
war loan headquarters tonight
by Secretary MOrgenthau
from Cincinnati, where he was
scheduled to speak. Although
total goal of the drive is S14,-
600, 200, 900, the first two weeks
have been devoted exclusive
ly to sales to individuals.
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Miss Kellen1s Accuses
u. S. OF :Boondoggli1g'

SEARCY, Ark. Jan. 20-QP)-Nliss Vvien Kellems,
Westport Conn. industriast who announced in Kansas
City she did pay her December Is income tax because
she needed the money to aside postwar reserves,
sued statement tonight defending her action and
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Neu Proposals Written
Into Pending Tax Bill

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-QP)-The Senate Finance
Committee today abandoned several proposals to the
contracts renegotation law and unanimously agreed
to compromise slated for consideration in the Senate
tomorrow The action was an obvious victory for Senators
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AIDES RESIGN

LONDON, Jan. 20.-LP-A Vichy
dispatch broadcast by DNB to-
night reported that two Of Mar
shall Philippe Petain's aides had
resigned.
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Fair with slowly
using temperatures Friday, not quite 80
cool Friday night; Saturday, fair and
continued mild.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-08-25

Laughlin, to discuss plans and
a program for the coming year.
During the meeting Mrs. Clyde
Leavitt explained the merit sys-
tenn.
Committee chairmen also an
nounced the names of their COM
mittee.
1t was announced that through
the horticulture chairman, Mrs.
James A. Derrick, Dallas Smith,
director of public relations at
ingalls,, had asked that a special
executive meeting be called in
connection with the coming
launching of a ship by Mrs. De-
trick, winner of the Better Lawns
and Gardens contest.
This session took place August
%, at 10 O'Clock in the morning
at the home of Mrs. Mclaughlin.
AT this time Mr.. Smith was
guest of the club and gave a
number of valuable suggestions
concerning the clubs participa-
ton in the launching.
Among these was the appoint
ing of committees to arrange
launching details.
In following out Mr.. Smiths
suggestion Mrs. Mclaughlin APP
pointed the following chairmen:
Mrs. Clyde Leavitt, coordinator;
Mrs. Robert Macy, decorating,
and Mrs. T. c. Fullilove, publ
city.
Mr.. Smith then invited these
committee heads, and Mrs. Nc
Laughlin, Mrs. David Peattie and
Mrs. DERRICK to meet with him
at his office at 10 o'clock, Aug
ust "a, to further discuss plans
and to revise the rules for the
Better Lawns and Garden con-
test.
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Red Cross Field
Worker Entertained
AT Luncheon

Miss Mary Alice Willis. field
worker out of the American Red
Cross office at Jackson, was a
visitor to Pascagoula Tuesday
and was guest of a group of Of
ficialS of the Jackson County Red
Cross at luncheon that day.
The time was given to discuss
ing matters pertaining to Red
Cross work.
Attending the luncheon we're
Miss Willis, T. T. Justice, chair,
nan of the chapter, Mrs. Rudolph
Frellsen and Mrs. Hermes Gau-
tier, chairman and vice chairman
of the Volunteer Special services
committee and Mrs. Edith
Grimm, director of Red Cross
Special Services office.
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erans' hospital. We DO NOT have
enough. The government agents
are now making a survey look
ing to the erection OF more per-
manent Veterans hospitals. We
have an ideal location. Why not
get busy and show Uncle Sam
what we have to offer along that
line? Why not interest the
Southern Bell and the Western
Union in erecting a building of
their own here? Well, there is
no end TO the things we need.
But | must not forget a good
broadeasting station. We need it
and can have it il we want it.
On and on we could 90 naming
things that we need. So can you.
But there is no freeze on plan
ming. That is the purpose of this
and other articles before and
those to follow. | want to arouse
the business men of Pascagoula
TO the point that they viii be do
ing some real planning for the
immediate postwar period. | do
not know when the war will end.
| hope soon. but come when ii
will, there Is going to DC a let
down =. a period of re-adju5t-
ment. Naturally, somebody is
going to be out of a job. How
long depends upon our planning
now. | would not for a moment
slacken III war efforts. But we
need not. We can lay our plans
now to absorb those who lose
their jobs because OF curtailment,
and re-adjusting. So let's plan
today for tomorrow. Let us do il
collectively and Individually.
/ appeal to the wide awake
ladies of Pascagoula. To begin
now TO plan for a city that they
will be proud for their friends
to come and see There is moth
ing that succeeds like success.
People just naturally will attach
themselves to a growing concern,
be 1t city or something else. /
venture the statement that let
one concern begin the erection Of
a building and IN a short time
there would be a half dozen I'M
der construction. Who will be
first to start the ball to rolling
when the wal is over?
Next week we will continue
this same subject. We have only
scratched the surface.
UNCLE HENRY