Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - January 11, 1944, Pulaski, Virginia I t f v i GERMANS SLAIN IN RED TRAP THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and today and day partly moderate Your Evening Considered A Member of 98 Per Cent of Pulaski VOLUME 276 Associated Frets and JANUARY 1941 NATIONAL SERVICE IS BY FDR I JAN 131944 important it for By Carrier Boy Within City 18c Per Sarny Is Claimed Evacuated By Conqueror spear steadily bringing war near er to drove toward the vital railway to and advance scouts felt out eastern of southern Bug river after capturing a long stretch of land of a junction on that main railway By HEMtY CASSIDY OM The second Ukraine army under Ivan was 15 miles of the important Dnieper bend rail junction Smela today after wiping out Germans ed north of Kirovograd in the course of a smashing The German formations which were annihilated were the re of three tanks one infantry division and a mo division totalling per haps Only a few members of these units were said to have escaped the Nikolai first Ukraine bat tling forward on slashed two branch lines feeding Number Pay Extra Amount On Their Income Tax Sheet It would that a lot of people have guilty or are Because of the March income tax which call for all sorts of fig including what your 1912 tax the internal n venue bureau decided to en close a with ttu forms Showing the amount of the 1942 er with entered for pay ments made before inauguration of last Many persons interpreted the us a subtracted the unpaid portion and mailed a check without a The burean made no tabula tion the number ran into the The are being Continued On Patre 5 Security Tax Freeze Urged Vandenberg Sees No Need For Doubling Of Payroll Levy M Sena tor Vandenberg de daring is no justification for doubling the present i per cent social security payroll set out today to the senate that the current rate should be frozen for the rest of this This is one time when I know Im dead said Vanden who on two previous oc casions helped block what other wise would have beep automatic Just before the Christmas re congress enacted stopgap legislation holding the rate at 1 per cent on both employer and employe through January and Year Adopted A yearlong freeze was attach ed by tho finance committee to the tax Increase slated for senate considera tion immediately after the reading of the presidents an Vandenberg noted that in 1939 congress down a rule as to should constitute ade quate reserve in the Social secur ity fund from which old age and benefits are The congress should be at three times the high est anticipated drain on the fund in any one of said trium at a mass the reserve Is 11 instead of three the social and five times mate of the Berlin Raided By HAF Planes tt estern Reich Also Gets Attention Return Safely NEW The Ber lin radio said strong units of at tacked places in middle Ger many at noon government monitors heard the Mosquito bomb returning to the assault upon Germany after a lull in the allied aerial bed at Berlin last night and also bombed targets in the western the air ministry ed The raid the ninth night foray by the speedy plywood Mos since the first of the year Was executed Without the announcement Save for Ber lin the targets were not British fighters also were busy over the continent last night on intruder the air ministry shooting down one German plane during these One British plane failed to re Grout Ii Raided Only aerial activity was reported over the continent yes small formations of Ty phoon and Mosquito bombers co Continued On Page Column 2 Army Air Forces Fields Are Being Sifted For Needs The army air force has reached the peak its unit strength and is gradually shifting to a replace ment training That explanation was supplied today for the closing of air bases throughout the a figure estimated by the air forces to represent between 5 ami 1 per cent of all AAF m the United New units be as the war but tor the most part tSey will be replace ment The number of installations placed on a standby only custodial employes to keep them Vto repair if need was disclosed yesterday by WM told by war 4e that bt tiw in ihe northwest were a mong the Lifeline On Guinea Northeast Coast Target ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD New OP Sea and air attacks on Japanese plane and supply centers accented allied warfare in the southwest with the lifeline along New Guinea northeast taking a heavy The big base at MadanK and its nearby protecting airdromes and defense points were hit with 108 tons of Douglas communique said to a total of 986 tons laid on supply pun posi tions and air fields here in the past 10 Madang Hard Hit 55 miles north west of the American sixth army invasion holding at re 44 tmis 88 tons were dropped at defence airdrome center 10 miles and 36 tons did damage at Hog outpost 15 miles Medium bombers ranged above Madang to loaded barges and leaving pillars of smoke and fire rising above wrecked installations and Race Continued On Page Column 5 Soldier Vote Setup Backed GOP Committee Acts On Endorsement Chicago Convention Site The lican national commitee moved to day toward endorsement Of a policy of cooperation between the states and the federal government to facilitate absentee voting by members of the armed forces in the November presidential elec The committees struggle with what promises to become 1944s 1 political problem over shadowed the purpose of its meet ing here to fix the time and place for the partys national con The procedure of todays meet the first at which members gathered to exercise their cial had become so cut and dried that there appeared no trouble that Chicagos meager bid of fpr the convention would be accepted and the convening time set for June 25 or The committee also will allocate state quotas of convention The service question oc the principal attention of the partys organization members who hope to elect a president any good Republican in Nov but are about De charges that they dont want Waves and others to Democrats in notably Senator Guffey have in motives of the on this score the top national call ed upon to name a headed by Bussel Sprague of Ynk draft a resolution the party on record oh this ques Legislative News i The race between Senator Robert Nor of and of for the stale corporation commission vacancy thr spotlight today in prior to Ihfe tonight and thr conven ing of the 1911 funeral ly no that the develop a dark for he position made vacant thr recent death of Judge William Mcade and it was considered likely that thr of the two candi dates would be named presi dent pro tern of the senate to succeed the late Henry of Senator chairman the announced hr will take no part in the pro tonight because of him candidacy for the Morton of wan considered thr choice for thr temporary Coal Shortage 2 Cities Haiti Philadelphia Spk Supplies From Government An acute shortage existed in Philadelphia today as more than 200 coal dealers disclosed they without anthracite and have only small supplies of Dealers estimated there were homes in the city without any all awaiting fulfill ment of Some have been waiting for more than two weeks for a ton of all any dealer will deliver to a The Pennsylvania coal dealers association announced as a last resort Fuel Adminis trator Harold Ickes was asked to raise coal quota 15 per The in a telegram to said that demand is up 12 per cent over last while the quota reduction makes an overall 18 per cent differential between demand and available Italian And Balkan Fronts Scene Of Action FUEL PROVIDED F One hund red additional carloads of soft coal were earmarked by the solid fuels administration today to meet critical city requirements after dealers had complained of an in creasing fuel chief of the SFA anthracite distribution divi announced yesterday that the additional supply would be shipped for persons who have no Continued On Column li British Arc Told That Will Be Political The British reporting on the recon vening of told read ers today that news from the United States in coming Would be colored by the fact that this is a presidential election year and country will be in an ebullient condition inseparable from the The Daily went oh to should not presume to offer advice to the Americana x They make their own decisions their own and recollect teg Amer lcas production and Military aid we are alt aware that those de cisions have not let anyone downs BY WES A fifth army pin cers closed in on the German bastion of 70 miles from with one reach ing the outskirts of for village four milps to the headquarters announ j land and sea activity flared j all over the Italian ami Balkan as night bombers return ed to Sofia to pound Bulg arian capital in a swift follow up to yesterdays daylight and British destroyers sank German schooners and damaged four others trying to run the blockade to Ancona and San American troops advancing up the road to Rome threatened the German mountain defense of less than three miles from while British troops completed the capture of Mount five miles southeast of and continued to force As the tentacles of tlw allied offensive stretched out to take On v Service Mens Bills Pressed 2 House Committees Try To Get Benefits Plan Vote two house committees vying for juris diction over service mens legis lation moved swiftly and sep today to get congres action on benefits for dis charged men and Chairman May called the military committee to report out before the end of the day a for cash payments upon Rankin assemb led the veterans committee to hear the views of the American Legion on the whole subject of veterans including Sidetracked for the moment was a dispute over which of the two committees should handle muster ingout Hopes For Vote May said he hoped to get a discharge pay before the house for a vote not later than He has a personal pre ference for legislation giving a top of to Before the yearend May introduced a to give men and women upon ift they had served more than six with a of for shorter The senate has passed a paying from to upon dependent upon the length of ser committee sought the of Warren Ameri can Legion national on a Rankin introduced yes Rankin said it embodied the general provisions a board legislative program manned out by the Realistic Tax Cost Of Food Plan Termed Needs V five point by enactment of a national j mended to congress today by President He proposed a national service aet for the duration to prevent strikes some to make available for war production or for any other essential ser Tokyo Is States Halsey Admiral Japanese Fleet Crippled I To al William the Japanese fleet is serious ly declared today We I will on pressing and hitting I him until Tokyo 11 i Thf of naval forces in Ihc south Pacific ursid that tht American people to accept any until Halicy told a press conference that there is only one definite that got to bo taken and that is Dont let any stop us until we get it Guessing He said that the forces in the Pacific in continuing to pound the Japanese are relying upon keeping the enemy get set in one place and well hit him in he Asked the apparent re of the Japanese fleet to he replied Either are saving their force until we approach the shore of the Japanese empire or they think they can wear us down by attrition tactics and well get tired and make a negotiated peace suit able to which God knows I Have Superiority Halsey said American forces have definite superiority in the on the and on the land wherever we When he was asked whether the Japanese fleet could be con to be badly he replied I would say rather than he the enemy can muster a fleet large enough to put up a serious bat News Bulletins CHICAGO PICKED MVt The Be decided to nom inate their presidential and vice presidential candidate at a convention in Chicago beginning June t CIANO EXECUTED AT THE ITALIAN FRON An report Mid a firing at today Count Italian foreign and of and four other Mentors of the grand come to at Verona for Ugh Un Tonight Tax Refunding Plan Approved Citizen May Decide That He Wants Cash And Get Government Cheek It was just treasury decision 5325 insert striking and amending sec tions of the code of federal But to the complica gentry of the in ternal revenue bureau it was something of a Because stripped of its simply provided that income tax payers entitled to re funds under the act may get them merely by mak ing a check mark on their March 15 No Extra There ill be no other forms to till no claims to swear no red If the bureaus audi tors agree with the taxpayers a will be wait and that be Todays filed with the federal put in legal language the formal authorization for little check mark boxes that already were printed at the bottom of the new tax return vices every ablebodied in this These points A realistic tax Continuation of tho law per i renegotiation of war con j A cost of food I of the econom ic stabilization act which expires In his annual message to con he was prevented by from in per largely un but he spi nf tho war and its Would His legislative program was in order to concentrate all our resources on winning the war and to maintain a fair am economy at His five the hief executive form a just and equitable The president con that a national service act was Although I am he that wo and our allies can win without a 1 am certain that nothing less than total of manpower and capital resources will antee an earlier Supporting his arguments for a national service he said millions of Americans in this war at ail ami that act would be a means by which man and could make the fullest possible contribution lo Law described realistic tax Jhe first point in legislative as one which would tax all unreasonable both individual and cor and reduce cost of the The revenue the now in con They give the taxpayer the choice of asking a cash if one ia dua the overpayment to his estimated tax far 1944Several million per trill be entitled to refunds tof many the withhold to jf tevy more from their than actually which would yield only about a fifth of what the admin had does not Start to meet this he Backing up his request for con of contract the chief executive asserted it would prevent exorbitant prof its and assure fair prices to the He recalled that hp had pleaded with congress for two years to take undue profits of On his third a cost food he said it should en able the government to put a reasonable floor farm prices and a ceiling on the prices that consumers t only to he k and public funds will be required to He figured the would be about one per cent of the present annual cost of the 4 Unless the stabilization statute is he t the can expect price chaos sum 7lot Kji cannot by wishful he and positive acti a must be taken to maintain the integrity of the The president at the of his the On FWW
