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King Vittorio Emanuele Assumes]
Command As Mussol ini Quits Job
— _—
(Continued from Page One)
cist march on Rome in 1922. The
international and demostic stand
ing of Mussolini, however, has
steadily deteriorated since he led
his country into war in the sum
mer of 1940.
Mussolini was conferring with
Adolf Hitler last Monday when
the huge American air attack was
delivered on rail and airport in
stallations at Rome.
Mussolini apparently appealed to
Hitler for aid in resisting the Al
lied onslaughts which clearly are
aimed at knocking Italy out of
the war as quickly as possible.
If that was his plea he undoubt
ly failed in his miss.ion. The King’s
proclamation, which in effect dis
missed the originator of Fascism,
followed.
Badoglio, long out of favor with
the Fascists, had been reported a
likely successor to Mussolini once
the country decided to sue for
peace.
The resignation of Mussolini,
whose empire vanished under con
verging Allied troops, also ap
parently ended the Fascist party
as it had been constituted.
The King’s proclamation specif
ically said that the resignation of
Mussolini as premier "and secre
tary of the Fascist party” had
been accepted.
(U. S. government monitors ad
vised the Office of War Informa
tion that the Rome radio after
broadcasting the King’s proclama
tion. played the Royalist anthem
in full but did not play the Fas
cist, hymn, Giovinezza.
(Ncr was the Fascist era used
in dating the King’s proclama
tion.)
The little King and tfaaogno
took over Italy's destinies at a
fateful moment.
Naples, Leghorn, Rome, San
Giovanni, and other Italian cities
are heavily damaged by Allied
bombers. The people are war
w'earv and hungry.
Italian morale is at a new low
because of sweeping Allied suc
cesses in Sicily where whole Ital
ian divisions are surrendering,
and the civilians are welcoming
Allied troops in unprecedented
friendship demonstrations.
Sicilans and Italian soldiers
have been profuse in condemning
the Dictator Mussolini and their
German allies.
The number of German troops
in Italy is not kown. Their pres
ence long hgs been a factor in
consideration of any Italian suit
for a separate peace. But there
have been recent reports that Hit
ler does not intend to waste too
j-r - ny troops trying to defend It
alv. ,
No matter what course Italy s
new- leaders take in the war the
departure of Mussolini is a pres
tige blow to the Axis throughout
the world, particularly in the Bal
kans where both Italian and Ger
man occupation troops have been
unable in two years to crush or
ganized military resistance.
Mussolini had been losing
grip on the Italians for years. The
fact was auite obvious in the last
year. II Duce had not spoken to
his people as a war leader since
last December, about a month aft
er the Allied landings in North Af
rica,
In the last few weeks almost
hysterical efforts have been made
to buttress the Fascist order. One
of the chief moves was to employ
the rhetoric of Carlo Scorza. Fas
cist party leader under Mussoli
ni. Scorza’s name was not even
‘ mentioned in Rome broadcasts to
night.
The news was jubilantly re
ceived in London. One British au
thority said:
“Mussolini has crasned and witn
him the whole Fascist regime
must almost inevitably come to
ruin. _ . .
‘‘It seems therelore wax uajy >
days as a member cl the Axis and
consequently as a fighting partner
at Germany’s side are numbered.
“No other ccnstuction of the as
tonishing sequence of events is
possible.”
Another said:
‘‘It is significant that Badoguo
was called prime minister, lor the
very title suggests that the Ital
ian people desire now above all
things, to return to democracy
and to end dictatorship.”
Sir Frederick Kenyon, president
Of the ‘‘Friends of Free Italy” or
ganization here, said “We hope
that this means Italy is coming
out of the war and that Italians
■Will be given a chance of choosing
Key Servtoe Oe
CAUSEY'S
Camr Marini aai lift
their own government free of Ger
many and free of Fascism.”
Mussolini’s eclipse came just
four days before his 60th birth
day July 29.
Last spring he had changed his
entire government and the Fascist
bureaucracy in a final effort t)
retain his grip on Italy.
His son-in-law, Count Galezzo
Ciano, was dismissed as foreign
minister, and Mussolini took over
that portfolio.
Ciona was made minister to the
Vatican, and there have been re
ports that he recently attempted to
get the Pope to mediate for peace.
The amazing rapidity with which
the Allied troops conquered all of
Africa, toppled Pantellsria, Lam
pedusa, and other Mediterranean
islands, and then swarmed over
Sicily these all contributed to Mus
solini’s downfall.
The Italian leader had with
drawn his troops from Russia, and
some from the Balkans in an at
tempt to stave off the Allies. But
the superiority of Allied equip
ment and sagging morale among
Italian troops has made Sicily’s
conquest an imminent possibility
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill have demand
ed the unconditional surrender
of Italy, and Allied leaflets drop
ped over Italy—along with the
bombs that crippled railway yards
in Rome Monday—have said flatly
that the Italians must overthrow
Mussolini and his Fascists or “suf
fer the consequences.”
The Rome radio’s failure to play
the Fascist anthem tonight was
ail indication that the King has
decided to try to divest Italy of
Fascist trappings.
Mussolini s fascist leaders pub
licly had rejected the Roosevelt
Churchill demand that Italy quit
the war with a declaration that
Italy still would be a battleground
if the country sought a separate
peace. In other words, the Fas
cists quite obviously fear Germa
ny’s reaction to any Italian peace
feeler.
Despite the uplift in spirit caus
ed here by the news, there was a
tendency among many people to
restrain their general rejoicing.
Their idea is that Mussolini’s exit
from the scene does not automati
cally mean a military surrender of
Italy.
It would appear that the King
and Marshal Badoglj^ have two
alternatives, both of them risky.
If they sue for peace Germany
may turn on them with all the
ferocity of a jilted partner. If they
decide to continue the war against
the Allies, then Italy’s cities will
be at the mercy of nearby Allied
air power.
Italians were told by the Bri
tish radio that Mussolini was
“thrown out by the will of the
Italian people” but that this was
not enough to save Italy.
“The Germans and any Italian
government that keeps Italians
bound to Germans must be elimi
nated,” the radio said.
The BBC commentator asserted
that “Italians must understand
that the British and Americans
are their friends, not their ene
mies. We do not wish to destroy
Italy. We do not hate Italy.”
“Italian soldiers must abandon
Nations,” he added. “They must
realize who are their real friends
and who their real enemies. One
enemy alone now remains for the
Allied nations and for Italians—
Nazi Germany.
“There will be neither peace nor
freedom for Italians until the last
German soldier has been thrown
out of Italy.”
ITALYLOSTOUT
ON JUNE 10, '40
(Continued from Page One)
and the 52 nation* who had impos
ed economic sanctions.
Through 1936 to 1939 he had seem
ingly duped French and British
statesmen and the non-intervention
committee, poured men, planes
and supplies into spain and seen
his men win in a bitter civil war.
With ease he had annexed Al
banie to the Italian crown in 1939.
For J8 years Mussolini’s strong
arm Fascist had cowed all oppo
sition, As a result of his successes,
he was at the peak of his popu
larity .
To Italians Mussolini looked like
a winner. The objective, he told
them, was to “break the- chains
that strangle us in the Mediter
ranean.” It looked as though Fas
c'sm was as dynamic as Mussolini
said—that the war was as good as
over and that Italians could share
in the victory without very much
fighting. Mussolini looked smart.
By contrast, the realities proved
Stop At Tto . „ .
JEWEL BOX Gin SHOP
WUnrinctoii’s Only Downstairs 8 tors
great and tragic for Italy.
Far from obtaining any of her
coveted objectives, Italy soon be
came shackled in the Mediterra
nean more securely than ever, her
fleet not daring to come out of
hiding for months after the first
disastrous encounters with the Brit
ish.
Her empire was tom into "shreds
and tatters,’’ as Prime Minister
Churchill promised. No Italian
hearts on the shores of the Indian
ocean leaped to conquer—Italian
Somaliland and Eritrea were soon
gone. Haile Selassie, whom Mus
solini once could mimic, mocking
ly took his throne in Ethiopia
again on May 5, 1940. The gems
of the empire, Cirenaica and Tri
politania, eventually followed. Far
from being a bright new jewel in
the empire’s crown, Tunisia be
came the dusty dead-end of a long
retreat which in its entirety spell
ed the greatest Italian defeat since
Caporetto in World War I.
Instead of Mussolini’s “Mare
Nostrum,” the Mediterranean be
came an Allied lake—an avenue for
invasion of the Italian homeland’s
long and vulnerable coastline. The
sea’s southern shores became the
bustling bases of swarms of Brit
ish and American warplanes which
hammered Italian cities with their
deadly cargoes day an dnight.
Unprepared, war-weary, badly
led, Italy proved herself far from
dynamic in big league war.
Though Mussolini had boasted of
8,000.000 bayonets, he was unable
to mobilize and arm anything like
that number of troops when it
came to the showdown.
Not until June 21, eleven days
after Italy’s declaration of war and
four days after France asked for
an armistice, was Italy able to be
gin a general offensive. Fighting
against the dispirited, disorganiz
ed. hopeless French, the Italian
army managed to penetrate from
one to 20 miles along a 120-mile
front before hostilities ceased on
June 25.
No sorrier sight was presented
than the ill-clad, out-numbered
freezing and starving Italian peas
ants drafted into Mussolini’s le
gions who met humiliating defeat
at the hands of the little nation
of Greeks—whom Mussolini mistak
enly believed he had bought off
when he began his invasion on
October 298, 140.
Humiliatingly rescued by the
German armored columns which
plowed through the mountain pass
es of Yugoslavia and Greece in
April, 1941, Italian morale ebbed
to low when Marshal Erwin Rom
mel and his African Corps went to
Africa in an attempt to save Italy’s
empire for her.
Italian hearts sank when a flood
of German missions, experts, tech
nicians, police, airmen and sol
diers poured through the Brenner
Pass, and began infiltrating into all
the important government depart
ments, teaching the Italians how
things were done in Berlin, vir
tunally taking over her propaganda
services, even taking over the com
mand in Africa.
In order to prevent a collapse,
to keep Italy in the Axis and in the
war it had become necessary for
Germany virtually to occupy Italy.
It became evident that even if
the Axis won the war Italy would
be the loser to the traditional foe,
the German, who had occupied the
peninsula in centuries past.
Mussolini, who had originated
modern Fascism, had seen it
spread to Germany, wHere it over
shadowed his own movement. Hit
ler, the pupil, became the master,
and Mussolini the gauleiter.
The only ambitions Italy had re
alized had been by grace of the
Fuehrer.
Nice, Savoy, Corsica — Italian
troops finally occupied these but
not until the shadow of Allied in
vasion was falling upon Italy itself
with the landing of Allied troops
in French North Africa. Until
then Hitler had preferred to bal
ance France and Italy one against
the other, trying to win French col
laboration, use of the French fleet,
in return for his protection against
Italian claims.
Dalmatia, other parts of Yugosla
via, fell into Mussolini’s satchel.
But the Duke of Spoleto, the Mus
solini-sponsored “king” of Cratia,
never dared take his throne in the
restless Balkans where hundreds of
Italians met their death every
month.
As Italian killed, wounaea ana
captured neared the 750,000 mark,
including more than 600,000 in Afri
ca, it became evident that Italy
had been tricked into the war. The
story—it was confirmed in part by
Count Galeazzo C'iano, then foreign
minister—was that Italy warned
Germany in the early months of
1939 that the Italian army would
not be ready for war for at least
three years. Hitler reassured the
Italians on that point, and their
“pact of steel,” a military alli
ance, was signed on May 22, 1939.
Hitler’s word to the Italians was
no more reliable than it had been
to his intended victims, however,
and a few months later he began
his war in Poland. It soon became
evident that Italy would be drag
ged in, either to share in the vic
tory or because Mussolini believed
Fascism woOld rise or fall with
Hitler. ' . . . 1
Mussolini, who agitated to*
Italy’s entrance into the first World
War on the side of the Allies,
made no revolutionary change in
the Italian alignment in European
affairs from the day of his march
•en-'JUime, tshto-he famed hU gov
eSSSTent on October 30, 1922, un
til the Ethiopian affair in 1935.
In 1943 he had mobilized troops
at the Brenner Pass and the threat
of war apparently prevented Hit
ler from seizing Austria at the
time of the assassination of the
OFFICIALS BUSY
OYER INFLATION
(Continued from Page One)
en pay checks. His remarks fol
lowed a White House visit by Wil
liam Green, president of the Ameri
can Federatio nof Labor, and Philip
Murray, president of the Congress
of Industrial Organizations, after
which they said flatly that labor
would abandon support of the ‘‘lit
tle steel” formula limiting wage
increases to 15 per cent, unless liv
ing costs were rolled back to <the
levels of September 15, 1942.
The President said no agreement I
on new anti-inflation measures had
been reached and indicated that
any program undertaken would be
largely a congressional matter
since it would require money which
only Congress can provide.
However, there have been indica
tions that government purchase of
food products and resale at a loss
may constitute the backbone of
plans being given consideration in
some Administration circles. Field
tests on such a plan already have
been made on a small scale, nota
bly in cheddar cheese. Meat,
bread, dairy products and other
items bulking large in the cost
of living were understood to have
been nominated for price cutbacks
in that manner.
The OWI report, based on an in
dependent study made by Wayne
C. Taylor, undersecretary of com
merce, laid stress on his finding
that "the penalties of unrestrain
ed inflation were felt first by the
farmers and wage earners; then
they were realized by all types of
business, particularly wholesalers.”
Although wages were very high
at the end of the last war, the
OWI report said, wage earners
found ,that the cost of living had
more than doubled, and while pro
duction of civilian goods hit record
levels in the spring of 1919, high
prices deterred customers.
“To meet a lessening aemanu,
OWI continued, “prices were low
ered, wages were cut and manu
facturing fell off. Jobs were re
duced, too, and many workers
found themselves unemployed with
wartime debts to pay on houses,
automobiles and other luxuries.
Farmers found they could not get
the former high prices at a time
when they were carrying heavy
mortgages on land purchased dur
ing the boom.”
Commercial failures, the report
said, began to show up strongly in
August, 1920, and rose to a total
of 23,672 in the year 1922. The av
erage hel dat nearly 2,000 a month
for the next decade.
Farmers suffered most spectacu
larly in the recession from the
boom of 1919-0, OWI said, but labor
and business were hurt too. Exn
ployment dropped by 5,000,000
workers and wholesale prices fell
45 per cent. Industrial output and
factory payrolls dropped 30 per
cent. Banks, OWI said, got a “de
layed action” which culminated in
1924 in the failure of 75 banking
institutions compared with only 11
in the first quarter of 1920.
“During the decade ending in
1931,” the report continued, “the
total liabilities of defaulting enter
prises at no time fell below $400,
000,000 annually, compared with
the 1910-1915 pre-war avreage of
$254,800,000 per year. This cir
cumstance indicates that the after
effects of the wartime inflation on
business enterprises were more
lasting than is generally sup
posed.” ___
Austrian chancellor, Engelbert
Dollfuss: In 1935 Mussolini joined
Britain and France in the Stresa
front to counter Hitler’s creation
of a huge army by conscription..
But angered by opposition to his
Ethiopian invasion, he. turned to
Germany as his only available
friend in 1936. Involved in Spain,
a German threat to Britain and
France was a welcome diversion
for Mussolini. Count Ciano went
to Berlin, and on October 24 Hitler
announced the formation of a Nazi
Fascist front. The two govern
ments agreed to “conduct common
action to their advantage,” and
the Axis was born.
Once headed down the road with
Hitler there was no turning back.
The path led to the Anti-Comintern
pact, which Italy joined in 1937,
outright military alliance m 1939,
war Italy’s involvement on the
Russian front in the “Crusoe
Against Bolshevism” to which she
was believed to have sent no more
than 100,009 men, and war with the
United States in 1941.
As the Allies drove east and
west in Africa in 1943 and finally
gained complete possession of the
southern shore of the Mediterra
nean, rumors multiplied of Italian
panic, of Italian peace feelers, of
dissident army, monarchist and
other elements in Italy willing to
displace Mussolini. .
The general shakeup of the cabi
net by Mussolini on February 6,
1943, in which he ousted his son-in
law Count Ciano and a long list
of other officials, aroused new
speculation that Ciano may have
shown himself not unwilling to play
the role of Allied agent in a re
ceivership" for the Fa®ci®* regi.1™;
Reported fallen from German fav
or he was appointed Italian am
Hnsiador to the Vatican*
Marshal BadogUo figured to nu
merous rumors of Italian peace
**So ” thoroughly had Mussolini
crushed all leadership of opposi
tion to his long years of power,
however, that it was necessary to
discount heavily •U ^ch ™*
This was so, even when Allied
bombings of Italy and her stepping
stone islands grew to full power
and the invasion oiL Sicily caused
the roads of Italy to-be lined with
hungry, frightened, war-weary ref
ugeeSt as the roads of France had
been on June 10, 1940,
Leader Of Air Raid
On Trondheim Wed
To Former Resident
Colonel William Mason Reid,
credited in army reports with
making the Saturday raid on
Norway 4<au outstanding sue
cess/’ married to the former
Elisabeth King of Wilmington,
daughter of the late David C.
King 313 North Fifth street.
Colonel Reid, the son of G.
yy Reid, Atlantic Coast Line
conductor of Georgia, resides
with his family in Sarasota
Fla.
Newspaper accounts pointed
out that his quick thinking in
piloting a Fortress flagship was
responsible for swinging the
planes in perfect position for
precision bombing. The For
tresses had made a 1,200 mile
round-trip to pound the Ger
man metal port of Herroya on
the east coast of Norway.
-B - j
TRAPANI SEIZED
BY U. S. FORCES
(Continued From Page One)
miles south of Catania on the east
coast, due west through Catenanu
ova, which is 12 miles west of Pa
terno and about 23 miles west and
slightly north of Catania. From
there it turns to Regalbuto, four
miles to the northwest, and bends
sharply northward to the sea.
(This would indicate that the Al.
lies may be in possession of the
north coast as far east as Acquedo
la, approximately 55 miles west of
Messina strait and 65 miles east of
Palermo — or at least that the
Axis may not be seriously oppos
ing Allied advances into that area.
(Roundabout reports originating
from the Algiers radio yesterday
said the Allies had reached San
Stefano di Camastra, 50 miles east
of Palermo.)
German divisions are holding the
sector from the river inland to Re
galbuto, a winding line of 35 to 40
miles, and the Italians have been
entrusted with the remaining 30
miles to the northern seacoast.
Dispatches indicated that the
northern section of the line was
still somewhat unsettled and it was
not known exactly here where it
came up to the coast.
A small triangular section oi Si
cily is now left in Axis hands,
with Messina at the tip. Both legs
of the triangle are approximately
55 miles long and the base is about
60 miles across — an area approx
imately the size of Cap Bon where
the remnants of Col. Gen. Jurgen
von Arnim’s Tunisian army were
destroyed less than three months
ago.
Headquarters announced that It
alian parachute troops had been
dropped behind Allied positions at
an unnamed place, but said they
were captured and “effectively
dealt with." "
Today’s communique said Cana
dian troops under Maj. Gen. Guy
Simonds “have been engaged in
bitter fighting and have made
good progress” ploughing through
desperate resistance of the Ger
man 15th armored division in the
neighborhood of Regalbuto, ap
proximately in the center of the
Axis line.
Regalbuto is directly west of Mt.
Etna where German forces, con
sisting chiefly of the Hermann
Goering armored division, were
putting up a skillful and determin
ed fight to hold the gateway to the
escape port of Messina.
The British Eighth Army of Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery main
tained heavy pressure day and
night on this front, and the Ger
mans were said to have suffered
very heavy casualties and to have
been given no respite.
Allied naval lorces were Dusny
engaged in offensive patrols along
Montgomery’s seaward flank, re
peatedly daring the enemy’s coast
al batteries and torpedo boat flo
tillas in the narrow waters, and a
naval communique said one of
these Allied formations again had
bombarded the harbor of Taormi
na about 20 miles north of Cata
nia, on Wednesday night.
4TH COMBATARM
WINS BIG FIGHT
(Continued from Page One)
The psychological attack came
not only from Africa. London and
Washington and agents in a half
dozen capitals were busy burrow
ing under the tottering Fascist
framework. From neutral sources
came a steady stream of “inform
ed” stories of feelers for peace
and the shakiness of Mussolini’s
postiion.
Not all the psychological war
fare wac y remote control. Si.
lent, secretive figures appeared at
Eisenhower’s headquarters only to
fade quickly and silently from
sight. Some returned, others did
not. Just what they did and where
they went probably will be mili
tary secrets until the end of the
war.
Just as the attacks of the ground
forces had to be coordinated with
air assaults on the battlefield, psy
chological warfare had to be cou
pled with Allied victories.
It was axiomatic that they would
have had little success if they had
been linked with a stymied or los
ing army. Behind the reasoning of
the psychological broadcasts, leaf
lets and underground attacks there'
had to be a military force to put
weight behind the words.
The psychological attack has
tended Mussolini’s down fall and
made the Allied task easier while
the guns, troops, airplanes and
warships of Britain and America
put ‘‘authority” behind the Allied
ether and underground efforts.
BIBLE TEACHER
TO OPEN MEET
Dr. Davis Eitzen Will Con
duct Seminar On Per
sonal Counseling
Dr. David D. Eitzen, assistant
professor of clinical religion at the
graduate school of religion, Uni
versity of Southern California, will
open a three-day seminar on per
sonal counseling in wartime in
the First Baptist church at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning, the
Rev. J. F. Herbert, chairman of
the local committee on arrange
ments announced Sunday.
The sessions, to run from 10 a.m.
to112 noon, will be open to such
professional groups as ministers,
chaplains, social workers, nurses,
and others who must deal con
stantly with people.
Dr. Eitzen will reserve after
noon and nights for private con
ferences with individuals or small
groups who may desire assistance
with problems in human behavior.
Dr. W. Terry Osborne, director
of the local USO, is sponsoring
Dr. Eitzen’s visit, in conjuncction
with the Wilmington Ministerial
association.
At the start of his career, Dr.
Eitzen was a high school teacher
in the Middle West for six years.
Following his entrance into the
ministry, he was a pastor of a
local church for four years. He
has taken specical study and re
search, including clinical work,
at the Massachusetts General Hos
pital, in the field of psychology
and its application to personal
counseling and to the ministry in
general.
Dr. Eitzen has been a lecturer
in pastoral counseling for the Ar
my and Navy Chaplains, as well
as other ministers, at the Pacific
School of Religion, Berkeley, Cal.
He is the author of “Productive
Living” and has had articles in
numerous mazagines. He is a
member of the American Psycho
logical association; president of a
special study and research group
in Los Angeles in the relation of
religion to personal counseling;
and a member of the National As
sociation of Biblical instructors.
In his graduate teaching at the
University of Southern California,
Dr. Eitzen not only holds classes
on personal counseling and related
subjects, but also directs and su
pervises his students in their cli
nical or first-hand work in helping
individuals.
Post Chaplain Mattson of Camp
Davis is expected to bring his
entire contingent of chaplains here
for consultation with the visiting
psychologist.
IT
BADOGLIO NOTED
AS ANTI-GERMAN
(Continued from Page One)
and even after his resignation from
the general staff tbe marshal was
frequently called into conference
by the King.
In June of last year he wrote a
letter to the King complaining bit
terly of the subordination of the
Italian general staff to the Ger
man command. The German prac
tice in Africa and Sicily of leav
ing Italian troops to fight hopeless
rearguard actions while the Ger
mans seized all available transport
and fled is not expected to have
increased the marshal’* liking for
the Germans.
His military career has been
marked by ruthlessness in dealing
with opponents, particularly in the
Ethiopian campaign in which ma
rauders were brought before mili
tary tribunals and later executed
enmass by machine-gun fire. His
hard bitten tactics may shortly be
come evident if hi* government is
seriously opposed by the Black
shirts.
At one time he held an honorary
membership in the Fascist party
as a result of his Ethiopian con
quest but he was never accepted
into the party’s inner circle.
It is believed that only his enor
mous prestige with the King and
his popular following among the
people and the army stayed the
hand of Mussolini’s government in
dealing seriously with him.
-V
City Briefs
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The Woman’s Missionary So
ciety of Sonthslde Baptist
church, will meet Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 at the chnrch.
________ \
MEETING SCHEDULED
Cape Fear Council No. 24
Daughters of America, will
hold its regular meeting Mon
fey night at 3 o’clock in the
Junior Order HaU. AU mem
fers are urged to attend.
Warning Is Sounded
To Home Canners On
Inverting Food Jars
“Do not invert jars of can
ned foods after they are tak
en from the pressure cooker,”
Miss Cordelia Foster, home
service director for Tide Water
Power company, recently warn
ed housewives.
According to Miss Foster,
turning jars upside down
breaks the seal and fermenta
tion results. A Wilmington
housewife last week lost 15
quarts of beans because of ig
norance of this simple meth
od.
Contrary to old-fashioned re
cipes, no foreign substances,
such as vinegar, should be
added to home-canned vegeta
bles, the service director de
clared. “Modern ideas of can
ning are positively more relia
ble,” she said.
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SOCIAL SECURITY
POINT STRESSED
One Aspect Of Levy Of
Special Importance To
Summer Hosteries
There is one aspect of the taxes
levied under the Social Security
Act which is of special importance
to owners of summer resorts and
hotels, it was reported recently by
N. A. Avera, manager of the Wil
mington field office of the Social
Security board.
The Social Security act defines
wages as “all remuneration for
employment, including the cash
value of all remuneration paid in
any medium other than cash.”
In many hotels and summer re
sorts, employees are paid a cer
tain amount in cash, and also re
ceive food and lodging. In making
the tax deductions, these items
are included. In other words a
value must be placed on them, and
the tax paid, it was explained. For
instance, if it is determined that
the employee’s food and lodging
are valued at $30 a month, the to
tal wage on which the tax would
be paid would be the cash wage
plus $30.
Mr. Avera called attention to tne
fact that the tax is collected by
the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
The Social Security board has no
connection with the tax collec
tions, or with the rules and regula
tions concerning them. Therefore
any tax problems in connection
with the Social Security aTT
be submitted to the local r
tor of Internal Revenue C°Isc
Post Office building ’ a: 2i7
Information about the on
Insurance program under ?d’A«
may be obtained from ,hh* act
mmgton field office nf iu ® W|1'
Securty board. at3/« r S°cil'
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