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inc wartime spending spree. For the most part, 1t consisted of name calling and grumbling, with gen. lral agreement that amusement places would have to comply or be yutIeezed out of business from any of several directions.
 one downright refusal of compli- pnce came, however, from William Hopkins, President of the Philadel- pl1ia Cafe Owners Association, who said the order was "the worst news I've heard in years. for one won't close, Byrnes or no Byrnes."
 Hgight club owners estimated rev. pnue losses as high as 75 percent, 1or the most part they siad they would try to work out plans for starting floor shows earlier, and If necessary would eliminate the usual after midnight performance. Some owners first reaction was ] that they would have to close up their places for the duration. Others said they feared . mushrooming of speakeasieS would cut heavily into their revenue.
 Night club owners 1mmediatly pointed out the loss of revenue for Che government if their profits fell off.
 On the whole, the consensus was Chat night life would go on, but not as usual. New York's swank cafes, depending on after theater crowds for much of their patronage, said they would try holding their floor shows earlier but expected big cuts in attendance and profits. Barney Josephson, owner of Cafe Society uptown and Cafe Society downtown, said he would convert his uptown club to restaurant which would be exempted from the curfew. Josephson said as a cabaret the club returned about $20,000 a month to the government under the 20 per cent cabaret tax.
 Union leaders of both the CIO and AFL in the New York area hailed the curfew as help to war plants.
 '"The boys on the swing shift, |" one CIO union official said, will get some sleep now. Some of them won't have 50 many headaches"
 One Edgewater, N. J., war worker said: "Well, we'll just have to do
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abnormal low results. However, 1t is noted that during the past few years there has been a gradual less ening of the very high and very low records, a tendency, in other words, for all cities in the group to approXi- mate the same results.
 The report states, relative to this phase of the survey, that the most highly abnormal total collections occurred in 1886 and 1887, when "one-third of the cities in the 50.- GOO and over population group (Wa- terbury included) had total collec- tions above 105 per cent of their current levies." The 1937-1938 bus mess recession, the report states, brought drop of percentage points for the median figure to 99.8 per cent; but it moved slightly above 100 per cent in the following two years, and to 101.7 per cent in 1941 under the impetus of the defense industrial boom. In 1922 while the average remained above normal 1t did decline to the lowest level since 1884 except for the year 1888.
 Compilation of local statistics shows that Watrbury's trend, rela- tive to the ratio of total collections to the years levy, is comparable to the trend of the nation. The follow ing tax collection percentage sum- nations, relative to the levy of each year, reveals this to be true: for ex- ample, 1885, the clty's total collec- tion was 1l1.0 per cent of It's levy; 1886, 106.0 per cent of levy; 1897, 1913 per cent; 1888, 992 per cent; 1889, 1010 per cent; 1940, 1921 per cent; 194l, 101.0 per cent; 1942, 99 8 per cent and 1943, 995 per cent. Due taxes of each year are collectable the year following.
 The city's 1914 taxes will be eel lected this year in two instalments, one beginning May and the other October l. The city's fiscal levy has been estimated at $6,541 ,8O3. .39 of which $5,244 900 is in general prop erty taxes, as based on 92 per cent of the estimated grand list of $190 million at 30 mill tax rate.
 The report( compiled by Frederick L. Bird for the company cautions that mo city can expect, year after year for an indefinite period, to collect property taxes in excess of current levies. Attention might well be directed at the present time not only to budget policies in estimat- ing tax collections but to the prob able effect on budget balancing and the level of tax levies of a decline to normal in total collections"
 UncOIlected Levies
 Statistics for Waterbury further reveal that the city's percentage of recent levies uncollected has re- maincd almost static during the years 1940-1943, relative to the last fiscal year.
 The following percentage Of un- collected taxes for Waterbury at the end of the last fiscal year are shown: 1940-1.1 per cent; 1941-1.1 per cent; l942-1.0 per cent and 1943-1,0 per cent. This stable pic- ture is not indicative of the na- tional trend however which shows wide and varied fluctuations in comparable percentages.
 Waterbury had 13.9 per cent ratio of delinquent taxes at the close of the 1943 fiscal year to the years levy, 1t is also revealed by the report As stated here yesterday Waterbury has, since 1889, reduced
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 Counter-Attacks
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 way across the airfield from seven invasion beaches with flame throw CTS, tommy guns, grenades and bay onetS in what front dispatches said was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war.
 Front reports said American cas- ualties already were substantial, :" but progress was continuing. The Japanese garrison of perhaps 15,- coo were resisting stubbornly from some of the best natural defenses in the world.
 Radio Tokyo claimed that 1,50O of the invaders had been wiped out" another 2,00O wounded and 30 tanks blasted" But the same broad cast conceded that 10000 Marines already had landed and noted that there were 150 tanks ashore in one sector alone.
 Despite heavy damages, the enemy is constantly bringing up reinforcements," the enemy broad cast said. Our garrison units are violently intercepting them from both sides, the east and the west, as well as on the direct front"
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, con- mander of the Pacific Fleet, prom ised an invasion of Japan itself in a message of congratulations to the forces stor1ning Two, only 75O miles south of Tokyo.
 The same courage, skill and teamwork which enabled our car- rier planes to destroy the enemy in bad weather over Tokyo are now being displayed by the forces which are taking Two Island, only 66O nautical miles from Tokyo" Nimitz said
 They will also bring success when our troops land in Japan itself, cov- cred and supported by the ever n- creasing power of our air forces and of the guns of the fleet"
 Jap Resistance Increases
 The Fourth and Fifth Marine Di- visions reached Motoyama airfield No. 1-also called Suribachi airfield after fighting up steep terraces onto a mountain plateau against steadily-increasing Japanese re- sistance. The airfleld has three airstrips, the longest totalling 5,025 feet
 The advance along 2 1-2-mile- long beachhead front carried near ly half way across the narrow southwest tip of the Volcanic Is- land and threatened to seal off 546-foot-high Suribachi, in whose crater were emplaced artillery, mortars and machine-guns.
 The Japanese were sweeping the invasion bearches and bearchhead area with murderous crossfire from caves, pillboxes and other long prepared defenseS. Carrier planes and salvo after salvo of shells from American warships completely ring ing the island joined the invasion troops in answering the enemy fire.
 Vice Admiral Richmond Kelley Turner, commander of the amphibi- ous assault, told United Press War Correspondent Mac R. Johnson on the invasion flagship that Two was "as well defended fixed position as exists in the world today"
 Tt is small, but better defended and better organized for defense than any island with which l am acquainted" he said.
 Soft sand on some of the beaches tended to slow down the landing Of equipment for the troops, but this rapidly was being overcome.
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COW HELPS U. S.

Cook, Minn. (UP) - Expensive fodder was the $100 war bond An- drew Roines' COW ate. First chair man to go over the top in his area, Roine was on his way toy deliver the bond to neighbor when he stopped to feed calf in his barn. As he stopped, a COW behind him filched the bond from his pocket and ate 1t. Roine recovered small portion of 1t. enough, he hopes 50 that Washington will replace 1t.
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Continued from Page D they will be adequate to comply with the needs of the state.
 DelGobbo, accordin gto his attor- ney has been adjudged not respon- sible for his acts by Dr. Thomas c. Carey of Hartford, consultant psychiatrist at the states prison and by Dr. Ethel H. Hieronymus of Waterbury, whose findings con- cured with Dr. Carey's.
 At present all court action rela- tive to charges brought against the prisoner have been suspended by request of the state and defense both of whom have asked for time to submit the prisoner to psychia- tric examinations.
 State Senator Patrick Wallace CD, Waterbury told the Democrat yesterday that he will make every effort to alleviate the situation byb way of seeking means of establish ing a hospital for treatment of the mentally i'll of such prisons.
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our beer-drinxing before we go to work"
 While the curfew was merely . Byrnes request" to entertainment spots to close at midnight. he warn ed that other government agencies will be asked to see that there was full compliance.
 It appeared that the burden of enforcement might fall on munich pal governments which have the power to withdraw local ncenSeS from amusement places.
 Except for all-night bowling al- leys, the curfew will have little af- feet on sports arenas since boxing bouts, hockey and basketball are normally over by midnight.
 But swing shift war workers and servicemen on all night leave said the closing of bowling alleys and movies would leave them with no- thing to do.
 Oma Wilson, Berkeley, Calf, war worker, said If they close the movies won't have any place to go after l finish work"
 Factories Fearful
 War plant officials said that they feared the curfew would make the swing shift more unpopular than ever. Some employers said they ex- pected there would be a flood of transfer requests from night work CTS.
 Here's how the order re-acted across the country:
 Chicago - Night cub owners con- sidering a shift of floor shows to earlier hours. Bowling alleys com- plain bitterly of loss of war worker patronage. War workers indicate they will miss all night movies most. in general, reaction was full but not cheerful compliance.
 Portland - Night clubs expected 'severe" financial losses because il- legitimate places would under cover continue after midnight.
 Hollywood Herman Hover, owner of swank Ciro's said the cur few would do nothing but create bigger waste of everything. How about the servicemen who just get going after midnight-and the war workers who drop in after they get of the swing shift? It'll force them to turn to racketeers," Hover said.
 Seattle - Bars and cafes already closing at midnight. Few bottle clubs - speaEeasies operating illegally also appeared unconcerned.
 Denver-Night clubs expect dras- cut in receipts but bars already close at midnight in compliance with army reuest.
 Reno Blazing Acre" clubs ex- pected to lay off 500 to 800 men Reno's Big Three" - Palace, Bank and Harolds Clubs - have been op- erating 24 hours a day for many years. They asked provision be made "so that patriotic clubowners who do not close will not lose their trade to speakeasy type of opera tors"
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New England Unruffled

Boston, Feb. 2O-(UP-Early-to bed New England was unruffled to- day by the new midnight curfew for night spots.
 At most, night clubs, bars and other amusement places in the six state region will forego about an hours business when War Mobiliza- tion Director James F. Byrnes order becomes effective Monday.
 The managers of the Latin Quarter, one of BOSton's top night clubs, said patrons will have to plan their parties a little earlier. {" They pointed to the general quick drop in attendance when liquor Sa3es end at l A. M. by state law.
 A United Press canvass of night shift war workers brought forth such comments as, I'm so tired l never go anywhere except to bed" and "A cup of coffee is all want"
 All New England sports events enc before midnight. Boston has one all-night moving picture the ater ad three burlesque houses which present a midnight show once a week.
 The latest hour for liquor service in New Finland is l A. M, with Vermont's deadline already set at midnight.
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Gaulle was sent from the big three meeting place at Yalta six days in advance of MT. Roosevelt's arrival in Algiers, the announcement said. The President told De Gaulle he had '"hoped very much to meet him in continental France" but time pressure" prevented his going to Paris.
 The invitation concluded with "an expression of real hope that the alternative proposal for a meeting in Algiers would be satisfactory to the French leader"
 He was most disappointed, the White House added, when advised that official business" did not per- init the general to come to Algiers.
 The announcement quoted the President as saying:
 questions of mutual interest and importance to France and the United States are pending. wanted very much to see the general be- fore leaving for home"
 It gave no indication of when the President would return to the White House. But 1t declared that at no time during his journeys was he out of instant touch with the executive mansion or "other off, cials in Washington"
 Upon his return to Washington he will have travelled about 140OO miles, the White House said.
 MT. Roosevelt left Yalta some- time after the big three barley end- ed Feb. II. the White House re- vealed. He and his immediate party drove to the Black Sea port of Sevastopol.
 "At Sevastopol the President saw scenes of stark destruction" the White House said. The President said he lacked words to describe adequately such devastation"
 From there, U. s. Army Air Trans port Command planes tok the Presi- dent and his party to Egypt in a 5 1-2 hour flight He was received aboard U. s. Navy auxiliary ship in Great Bitter Lake, part of the Suez Canal. Before noon of the same day he was on deck to greet his first visitor-King Farouk of Egypt.
 They conducted "earnest discus sion" of many questions affecting American-Egyptian relationships, the White House said.
 Later In the day, Halle Selassie I. emperor of Ethiopia. and mem- bers of his staff called on the Presi- dent. U. s. Minister to Ethiopia J. K. Caldwell and other Ethiopian officials accompanied the king.
 Conversing in French, the Presi- dent expressed hope that with im- proVement of communications, par ticularly by air, the United States each other better, the White House said. The emperor, 1t added, "en- thusastically endorsed the Presi- dents hope for future relations"
 The following day "amid colorful and impressive ceremonies" King IBN Saud of Saudi Arabia called on the president after an 300 mile flight from the Red Sea port of Jidda to meet MT. Roosevelt
 "It was the first time in his life that he had left his countrys soil," the White House commented. "and this was interpreted by members of his party as an unprecedented honor for the visiting chief executive of the United States"
 The presidents talks with the three monarchs were "in line with the presidents desire that heads of governments throughout the world should get together whenever pos sible to talk as friends and ex- change views in order to better un- derstand the problems of one an- other" the announcement pointed out.
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mained unbroken, but there were increasing signs that the Allies were about to explode full-scale drive for the Rhine in that area.
 Field dispatches said the flood waters of the Roer were subslding ard that the water level behind the great Schwammaneul dam had dropped more than eight feet in the past "A hours. The dam level was reported 80 feet lower than when the Nazis blew Its sluice gates on Feb. 9 to stall the British Second and American Ninth Armies massed along the Roer to the north.
 On the Canadian First Army front, the Germans appeared tc have written off their one-tlme pivot at Goch after "A hours of say age hand-to-hand fighting for the network of cellar pillboxes masked by to towns homes and shops.
 Nazi Commander Captured
 Tough Scottish infantrymen. backed up by flame-throwing tanks and field guns, rooted out virtually all the NaZi garrison at bayonet point, capturing the German com mander and two members of his staff.
 Early today, German artillery and noortars began pounding Goch from the south and the only organized resistance inside the town centered around small pocket in the south eastern outskirts. A smaller band of die-hard enemy troops was holed Up in few ruined buildings in the northern end of town. but they were being cleared out rapidly.
 Late dispatches said the Scots were pushing out south, east and west of Goch into the last 9 miles of the Rhine-Maas funnel covering the Ruhr. Their next major ob- jective was Geldern, 12 miles to the south, toward which the Germans were retreating.
 German covering forces still were holding up the western flank of the Canadian First Army drive along the Maas below Afferden, sever miles to the southwest, and in the Hassum area, four miles southwest of Goch.
 The Nazis threw in their main ef- fort against the Canadian left flank just west of the Rhine, how ever. German tanks and infantry counter-attacked furiously late yes" terday in the Moyland area two miles northwest of Calcar ana against Scottish flanking column that thrust across the Calcar-GOch highway within two miles south west of Calcar.
 Confused fighting ragged at both points throughout the night, but United Press War Correspondent Walter Cronkite reported that tn" Scots had crushed the cou7Hel at" tacks by morning and recovered al- most all the ground lost in the first Nazi onrush. Most of the 1000 pris" oners captured on the Canadian First Army front in the past "A hours were accounted for by the Scots around Calcar.
 More than 5000 prisoners have been taken in the Rhine-MaaS cor ridor since the beginning of the Canadian First Army offensive al most two weeks ago.
 On It. Gen. George s. Pattons U. s. Third Army front American troops were steadily widening their breach in the Siegfried line north of Echternach and biting deep into the enemy Notifications below Pruem.
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HOPE JUDGE FALLS OFTEN

Indianapolis, Ind. (UP) - More Marion county prisoners undoubt- edly wish that Judge John L. Mo- Nelis would slip on the ice and fall again. For the last time the judge did this. he ordered two prisoners to clean the ice off the sidewalk and then granted them each a re- lease a week early.
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The statement was taken as ' clear indication that Nimitz's com" mand has begun drawing up plans land--the third and final phase Of for an invasion of the enemy home the Battle of Japan. The battle entered its second phase with tho invasion of Two.
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Bicycle wheels that pump up their own tires and keep punctured tires hard, have been invented in Liverpool, England.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-04-28
BY PERCY GREENE.
PARISH STREET
SATURDAY NIGHT


Well, This Old War is. gonna
last long enough for US Is have
another War Loan Drive. Tslis will
be the seventh according 50 Earl
Banks, this is going TO be sone OF
the biggest efforts ever put, on by
The Negro Division of thet Kinds
County War Finance Conenittee
He didn't say it, but I krsoW he
meant that in making this their
biggest efforts h Committee
would probably need the RiggfTt
crowd Of workers, the biggest
amount of enthusiasm theY had
ever had . and that's the way it
should be.
We talked aDou; the Seventh
War Loan Drive as we sat around
our Fish and Beer. One fellow
who'd been working in the drives
ali along said something about SO
many folks who could do, buS had
not done any War Bond w g k,
and recalled that one fellow lis Civ
ing his reason for not having. done
anything said that he had never
been invited Well, now, that
sounds all right as self apology,
but in this business of these War
Loan Drives there is so much 10 do
and so much that can be done and
with everybody having RESPONSE
hility that if any body can dc sany-
thing they ought not wait g. be
called upon but ought to : call
themselves and see if they casl be
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-04-28
FROM A YOUNG
FELLOW OVERSEAS

This time I'm saying hello to you
and all on the home front from
Somewhere in Germany. l do hope
that everything on the home front
is progressing nicely. At present
my physical status is almost per-
feet and I am as happy as could
be expected. Today was a very en-
ioyable one for me because re-
ceived three jackson Advocates"
They do come through splendidly
If not already, you will receive
my request for one years subscrip-
ton for the Jackson Advocate in a
few days.
Through the Jackson Advocate |
would like to say, Congratulations
to Miss Princess Beasley, who is re-
ceiving her B. S. Degree from Tou-
galoo College this year, and best
wishes to my parents, Mr., and Mrs
v. l.. Jones Of 1884 w. Pearl Street
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has just completed a course In
bomb handling and vehicle MAIN
tenance at the Combat Support
Wing, the Air Service Commands
crack trucking organization.
The school gives members Of the
Combat Support Wing better un-
derstanding of the bombs they ham
die and also of the trucks they use
to haul the missiles to advanced
bases.
Cpl Byrd was employed as truck
driver by the DR.. Pepper Bottling
Company before he joined the
Army in December, 194l.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-04-28
BY CONRAD CLARK
AMP Foreign Correspondent

WITH THE U S. ARMY IN
NEW GUINEA (ANP)-Four Me-
gro army nurses were promoted
from second lieutenantS to first
lieutenants here recently while two
have been sent home because of i'll :
ness.
The nurses. all attached to the
all-Negro station hospital in this
area, were promoted on special or
ders received by Maj. Arthur Sim
mons, their commanding officer.
Joan L. Hamilton, Geneva H Cul-
pepper and Prudence L Burns
The two nurses who were SEM
home because OF illness were lst
Lit Louise Miller OF Atlanta and
End 1t. Claudia Matthews OF
Carlsbad, New Mexico.
1t. Marjorie S. Mayors halls
from New York City. She is a
graduate of New York university
and the Lincoln School for Nurses
in the Bronx. She is the head
nurse of the medical ward of the
station hospital
Lit Geneva H Culpepper is a
native of Wadley, Ala She is a
former surgical nurse of Harlem
hospital and is a graduate of Tus-
kegee, the John A Andrews Me
mortal hospital there She Is a
surgical nurse at the Station hos
pital here.
1t Prudence l.. Burns comes
from Mounds, III She received
her r. N. degree from the NUM-
cipal training school of General
Hospital No in Kansas City and
was later a public health nurse
They are Its. Marjorie s. Mayors,
there. 1t. Burns is head nurse OF
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new building. The rooms are we'll
lighted and ventilated and admir-.
ably situated for a .doctor's rofrce
and practice.
DIR. Williams, a native of Tennss.
see, is a graduate of Meharry Med-
cal College of Nashville, Tenn. and
completed his interneship in Homer
Phillips General Hospital in st
Louis. Mo.
Aside from his general and pri
vate practice. DR.. Williams Is also
a member of the staff on the Sally
Harris Clinic on North Parish ST.
which is under the direction of Or
L. A. Smith.