The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 January 1945 — Page 4

CHATEAU IONITE and THURSDAY

'T* ’’r 'i* {cj Kl'SSKI.IA II.I.K *!• jjj + .gj Miss Anna Clark of Detroit sp^nt the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Nancy Clark. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Inge entertained at Xmas dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goff and family of I^afayette, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Pitts, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Inge, Mr and Mrs. H. C. Malcolm of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Norman White of Indianapolis spent the weekend with Mrs. Carol Scribner and family. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Doyel spent th* weekend with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Racquett in Indian-

apolis. Mrs. Rose Mendenhall and daughter of Indianapolis spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Paul MeGaughey and family. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. MeGaughey entertained at a Xmas dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. MeGaughey of Ntwman, 111., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph MeGaughey and son, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mcj Gaughey and Lai Frank. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Whitson entertained at Xmas dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kelley and family of Roachdale and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Whitson. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Haines of Kalamazoo, Mich., spent Xmas with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hester. Major and Mrs. Earl Sutherlin of Indianapolis spent tht week end with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Sutherlin. Miss Ruth Beckett of Indianapolis spent the week end with her parents Rev. and Mrs. L. Bickett. Beverly Wilson of Indianapolis spent the wetk end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson. Dorothy and Maxine Everman ! of,. Indianapolis spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Neal ! Everman, Xmas evening. i Mr. and Mrs. Ray Whitson were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Pittcock and family.

"Work Or Fight" Edict Probable

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UP) —President Roosevelt today left to congrvss the task of working out legislative details to fulfill war mobilization director James F. Byrnes' program of tighter manpower controls and putting 4-F’s on a “work or fight” basis. Mr. Roosevelt told his press and radio conference late yesterday that he substantially endorsed the recommendations of Byrnes’ first quarterly report to congress as director of war mobilization and reconversion. Congressional leaders likewise endors' d the Byrnes proposals but generally appeared to be looking toward the White House for more detailed suggestions before taking any action. They

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WHILE THE FOCAL POINT of the bitter western front battle continued to be the town of Bastogne, Germany launched a new attack against the U. S. Seventh Aimy front, far south of the German bulge In I Belgium. Meanwhile, Third Army troops recaptured three towns, Remagne, Hubermont and Wardin. Heavy fighting marked the whole battle line, from Bastogne to the German border. fTnternational)

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THE CAPTURE of two Nazi secret agents, trained in German “spy schools" and landed from a submarine with $60,000 on a mission of ( espionage and sabotage against the United States, has been announced by FBI Chief Edgar Hoover. The two, William Curtis Colebaugh, right above, 26, an American citizen who served a short time in the U. S. Navy, and Erich Gimpel, left, a German, came ashore in a rubber boat at Point Hancock on Frenchman’s Bay, Me., Nov. 29, having crossed the Atlantic in a submarine. They were arrested separately in New York. (International Soundphoto)

hoped to find further leadership , in President Roosevelt’s annual message on the state of the nation. scheduled to be received

Saturday.

It was reported authoritatively that the Byrnes report would provide the basis for a large part of the President’s message. Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky, who conferred with Mr. Roosevelt yesterday, declined to discuss the administration’s legislative program for the 79th congress until after the reading of the President's message. Even in the absence of detailed legislative proposals, however, the congressional response to the Byrnes report generally was agreement that something should be done to tighten manpower

controls.

Seeks To Form Greek Coalition

ATHENS, Jan. 3.—(UP)— Gen. Nicholas Plastiras, 62-year-old former “strong man” of Greece, was attempting today to form a new coalition government that would bring peace to revolt-

torn Greece.

He was given a mandate to form the government yesterday ny regent Archbishop Daniaskinos, who had spent two days conferring with Greek political leaders. It was assumed, though not officially stated, that Plastiras would be the new premier. _ Plastiras, regarded as a conservative on most questions Though he opposes the monarchy, returned to Athens last month after 11 years in exile, at the request of then Premier George

Papandreou.

British forces thrusting north snd east of Ominoias Square cleared 45 more blocks of leftwing ELAS troops yesterday against what was described as

“fairly strong’’ resistance. The attack overran the street through which ELAS negotiators had passed earlier this week for abortive armistice conferences with the British. Seventy ELAS prisoners were taken.

BRITISH ADVANCE KANDY, CEYLON, Jan. 3 - (UP)—Pritish 14th army troops have entered Yeu, 65 m.les northwest of Mandalay, in a general advance southward between the Irrawaddy and Chindwin Rivers, a communique announced today. Other troops were consolidating newly-won positions at Kabo, 12 miles northeast of Yeu and 75 miles northwest of Mandalay.

TAXES DOUBLED INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 3 — (UP) Gilbert K. Hewit, director fo the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division, today announced that Hoosiers paid taxes amounting to $42,831,876.79 in 1944. almost twice the total of collections for 1939.

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U. S. Manpower Situation Entering Critical Phase

Draft Boards Must Turn Toward Older Male Group

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• WASHINGTON—Evidence piled up in Washington this week that the American manpower situation has again entered a critical phase

as casualty lists reflect heavy fighting on all fronts.

The War Department reported that Western Front casualties, exclusive of the air forces, from D-day through Dec. 1 totaled

258,124. This figure accounted for more than half the Army casualties since Pearl Harbor which added

up to 483,957 as of Nov. 28.

Close on the heels of the Selective Service announcement that the drafting of men between 27 and 38 would be resumed, the War Department

stated it had become necessary to boost draft quotas from 60,000 to

80,000 per month.

For the past six months, the department explained, monthly quotas had been set at 60,000; because at the Rame time the Army was combing its ranks for men fit for active combat duty who were assigned to other Jobs and to organizations no longer needed. By this procedure, for example, 100 anR-aircraft battalions were retrained for infantry duty and other anti-aircraft men were retrained as individual Infantry replacements. In addition, the air forces turned over 55,000 men to the ground forces, and 25,000 were transferred from the service forces, thus making up for the lowered

quotas.

Now that it has scraped its own barrel, the Army has been forced to turn to the remaining civilian population for combat replacements. • • • • • DESPITE THE ARMED FORCES’ demands for younger, physically fit soldiers and sailors, it looks as if more men from 26 through 37 will find themselves in uniform along about next February. The need for more manpower by the military services was, of course, responsible for the new, tighter draft policy. And there is nowhere else to go except to the older group, since deferments were trimmed last summer on the 18-26 class. Moreover, draft boards are going to be tough on men in the 26-37 category who obtained occupational deferments and then slipped off to peace-time jobs. • • • • • CONGRESS WILL NOT FACE the prospect of new tax legislation in the New Year. It will be the first time since the defense program got under way In 1940 that a major tax bill has not confronted that body. The enactment last year of the Tax Simplification Bill ended war-time tax legislation. At least that was the intention of Congressional tax-bill writers. A major war catastrophe would be about the only thing capable of starting a movement to hike general tax

rates further.

• • * » • A BATTLE OVER POST-WAR COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING will swing Into action soon after the new Congress convenes Jan. 5. The House military affairs committee already has arranged to hold hearings on the matter next month. The Senate military affairs committee plans similar hearings. The controversy—which has strong support, also is bitterly opposed—is expected to rage into the spring, when major provisions of the selective service act expire May 15. Discussion of compulsory training is expected to tie-in with the argument over extension of

these provisions.

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• A RECENT B-29 COMMUNIQUE said Superfortresses had

attacked Iwo Jima, Jap base in the Bonin islands group. Six hours later a Navy communique said fleet forces, in cooperation with the B-29 s, had

raided Iwo Jima in the Volcano islands. Washington newsmen asked the two services to

chock, and went scurrying to war maps themselves. Fact is, Iwo Jima is in the Volcanos; but the two groups are sometimes referred to as the "Volcano-Bonin Islands" and some maps list them as either the Volcanos or the Bonins.

Where, Oh Where Is Iwo Jima?

AS Gl JOE BREAKS CAMP TO MOVE UP IN GERMANY

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THE SMOKE OF THEIR COOKING FIRES rises into the gray morning mist over Germany as these Yanks breakcamp and prepare to move deeper Into the homeland of the Nazis, (International Soundphoto)

SUSAN PETERS, motion picture actress, underwent an operation at a San Diego hospital, where she was taken after receiving a bullet wound In the chest in a hunting uccldent at Lake Cuyamaca, 65 miles east of San Diego. Her condition is ’’very serious,’’ say attending doctors. (International)

Congress Opens In Somber Mood

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.— (UP)—The new 79th Congress convened today in somber mood to organize for legislative bustuess incident to two more years of war and the future problems of peace. Rep. Sam Rayburn. D., Tex., was re-elected speaker of the House at today’s session. The Senate elected a president pro tempore, probably Sen. Kenneth O, McKellar, D„ Tenn., who would succeed the ailing, aged end long absent Sen. Carter Glass, D., Va. Both Houses witnessed the swearing-in of new members and expected to adjourn until Saturday after adopting resolutions to notify President Roosevelt that Congress is in session and prepared to hear from him. The President’s message on 'he State of the Union will be read to Congress by a clerk Saturday. In a joint session that day House and Senate will canvass the electoral vote by which Mr. Roosevelt defeated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey,.of New York, for the presidency. The President’s annual budget message will be read, to Congress by clerks on next Tuesday. The annual message is eagerly awaited for a statement making our foreign policy—notably in -elation tp European affairs— more specific and precise. The fiscal message, budgeting for Mr. Roosevelt's 13th consecutive deficit, is expected to set 1946 expenditures somewhat below the $100,000,000,000 figure proposed for 1945. Democrats are more numerous in this Congress than in the last, party members having benefitted considerably by the oppori unity to run for legislative office bracketed with Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign for a fourth term. Some colorful and some controversial figures are missing nom the new Congress. Rep. Martin Dies, D., Tex., did not seek renpminaUan. Three other members of his widely discussed committee were licked. Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., N. Y., was an election casualty. Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, D„ S. C„ lost In his state’s primary and soon afterward died. Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, D„ N. C., decided not to tun again. Sen. Hattie W. Caraway, D., Ark., the Senate’s only woman member, lost to Rep. J. William Fulbright, also a Democrat. There are 243 Democrats, 190 Republicans, 1 American-Labor-ite and 1 Progressive in the new House. These figures embrace 79 new members of whom 50 are Democrats and 20 are Republicans. In the 78th Congress

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