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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1944.
TOP O’ THE MORNING
Never does a man portray his own
character more vividly than in his man
ner of portraying another.—Richter.
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Civil Service For Veterans
Recommendations designed io protect the in
terests of war veterans in entering or returning
to government employment, as well as the
public interests in the continuing of a sound
civil service, are contained in a report of a
committee on veteran employment policies sub
jmittea to the Civil Service Assembly of the
L. S. and Canada.
Issued as an aid to merit system administra
tors in shaping their policies on the subject
of veterans’ preference in public service, the
recommendations called for the adjustment of
acministrative policies and procedures of pub
lic personnel to facilitate veteran rehabilitation
to the fullest extent possible.
The committee urged that employes on mili
tary leave be reinstated or reemployed in for
■,a tr positions or in similar position and stres
ed that they be given all rights and privileges
they would have received had they continued
lr their civil positions, including pay raises,
seniority credits, etc. Employes disabled dur
ing military service should whenever possible
be fitted into jobs for which they are qualified.
Among its recommendations regarding the
substance of veterans’ preference policies, the
C-mmittee touched upon the following points:
1. Veterans’ preference policies should
recognize the democratic principle of open
competition for public employment on the
basis of merit and fitness, and should not
by their terms or operations serve to ex
elude unduly the rising generation from its
rightful opportunity for public employment,
a passing mark in competitive tests be
fore being entitled to preference consid
eration.
1 3 Preference should be confined to ex
aminations for entrance into the service,
and should not be aplied to promotions
within the service.
4. The amount of preference credit for
non-disabled veterans should not be more
than 5 credit points on the basis of 100;
preference credit for disabled veterans
should not be more than 10 credit points on
the same basis.
5. Preference for veterans should be lim
ited to a period of five years after the war,
or five years after discharge or release
frcr.i war service, whichever Is later.
The report suggested that civil service agen
cies evaluate and consider experience gained
in military service in determining the qualifi
cations of candidates for positions to which
such experience is relevant; training and ed
ucation received through official military agen
cies also should be properly evaluated and
recognized in giving credit toward civil serv
ice eligibility, according to recommendations.
Finally, according to the committee, public
peisonnel agencies should seek to integrate
their own facilities with those of officially des
ignated veteran facilities to promote efficiency
In veteran placement, training, counseling, re
habilitation, and other similar aids to veterans.
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The Tax Outlook
Because no single burden imposed by the
War has been more distressing than taxes,
I whatever is said by competent judges concern
ing the tax outlook demands public attention.
It is pertinent, therefore, to offer our readers
the comment of the New York Times on the
•subject:
"Both Chairman George of the Senate Bi
nance Copnmittee and Chairman Doughton ol
the House Ways and Means Committee have
indicated that they expect no major change ir
tax rates during 1945. An analysis of the Gov
ernment’s expenditures and revenues indicates
they are on good ground in this prediction. Dur
ing the current fiscal year expenditures arc
expected to exceed $90,000,000,000, while reve
nues will be about $45,000,000,000. So long as
the European war continues it seems probable
that we shall take in about $1 in revenue:
for every $2 spent. Under such conditions anj
reduction in taxes would be out of the question
It would be more in order to have higher rathe
than lower taxes.
"What about the period after V-E day? Esti
mates have been made that a cutback of 4'
I
per cent to 50 per cent in war production will
take place at that time. It is important to
realize that there will not be an equivalent re
duction in the rate of Government spending.
Some types of expenditures will not be reduced
significantly. Illustrations include running the
Government at home and interest on the pub
lic debt. Moreover, during that period, pay
ments will have to be made to settled ter
minated contracts. It seems probable, therefore
that the maximum decline in Government ex
penditures will be about one-third, or from the
annual rate of $90,000,000,000 to about $60,000,
000,000.
During this same period the tax yield will
also decline because of the lower earnings
which will accompany the cutbacks of war or
ders. An estimate of $40,000,000,000 for Govern
ment revenues would probably be on the high
side. In other words, even after victory in Eu
rope is achieved we shall still have enormous
Government deficit. It will exceed that in any
year in our history prior to this war. It will
also exceed our maximum total expenditures
in any fiscal year prior to 1942. A tax reduction
under such conditions would, be unthinkable.
General tax relief—whether it be in excise
taxes or in income taxes—must wait until
Germany and Japan.”
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Robots And Our Shores
Germany put the robot plane into service
too late to have any material effect upon
the outcome of the war. It has taken many
lives and caused great physical damage in
England, to be sure, but it has not and will
not postpone ultimate Allied victory in the
European theater of war.
But it still possesses tragic possibilities. The
bioken homes and destroyed property in Eng
land due to its use prove this. It is not to
be wondered, then, that rumors of its con
templated use against American cities are re
ceiving more than passing attention, especially
as competent observers are agreed that the
Germans, in a last gesture, are all too liable
to experiment with them in or over north
Atlantic waters, launching them from planes
01 submarine decks.
Despite our relief from the U-boat menace,
our Eastern seaboard is not free from a
buzzbomb threat. In this connection Neal Stan
fotd, a Washington correspondent, has written
an illuminating article for the Christian
Science Monitor, which well deserves perusal.
He writes:
“The Army and the Navy have confirmed
that the robot bombing of the Atlantic Coast
is a possibility. They had to because it can’t
be denied. Conceivably, a German Submarine
could penetrate coastal waters, surface, and
fire a buzzbomb that would land somewhere
on American soil. Presumably, some German
naval craft could approach East Coast waters
and catpult plane of rocket bomb toward
Eoston, New York, Washington, or points
south.
“And, though it takes aome stretch of the
imagination to believe it, a super-robot or
rocket projectile might even be fired from
continental Europe and traversing the stratos
phere plummet down in the Western Hemis
phere. After weeks and months of silence on
this subject, the armed services at last have
spoken up. They have at last admitted its
possibility, though not its probability. And they
have further admitted that there was no way
of making absolutely sure that such a robomb
wculd not penetrate American defense.
“Such statements should reassure us rather
than frighten us. For they inform us that the
armed services are aware of the possibility
of such raids, that they are preparing what
defenses they can. They forewarn us indivi
dually of possible dangers and give us each
time to adjust ourselves mentally to such
possibilities. And the very acknowledgement
that such raids are even now possible should
destroy an false hopes remaining anywhere
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still constitute an impregnable defense.
“Recently, residents along the New England
coast felt earth tremors. The rumor spread
that high-flying rockets had dropped not on
the coast, but some miles off land.Certainly,
the chances are that it is only another of
those shifting* in the Atantic coastal ledge
which are fairly frequent. But it seems to
have jarred some of the constal inhabitants.
There is no doubt it brought the wag im
measurably neared to those who felt the trem
ors and heard the rumor. Whether fact or
fancy, reports of rockets either on or off the
American coast makes Britain’s travail more
real, makes Aachen’s destruction more per
sonal, makes our determination to enforce the
peace more certain.
“Of course, the chances that a Nazi sub
marine might surface off the East Coast and
launch a buzzbomb or two are small. The
coast is well patrolled. Still it could be done.
How? Lengthy launching platforms would not
be needed. The rockets could be jet-propelled
from a platform the length of a submarine.
Their wings would create something of a prob
lem. But there’s no reason why the three
parts to the buzzbomb couldn’t be carried
separately and then assembled on deck. Not
as simple as firing a torpedo, yet it could
be done.
‘The possibility of a robot bomb catapulted
from a plane in midocean being able to pene
trate our defenses seems more remote. For
its presence should be detected long before
it reached land. A submarine might be able
to sneak in some dark night and fire a bomb
: at random. But a plane’s approach should be
spotted under present protective measure long
before it reached land.
“While one deplores the Nazis’ development
and use of vengeance weapons, the buzzbomb,
■ the "flying telegraph pole,” there is the con
) soi a lion to be drawn from their usage in the
last stages of this war. No one can doubt but
that another war would be fough with terrify
ing refinements of these newest velocity wea
pons. As the Army Ordnance Journal bluntly
stated this week: ‘There can be no doubt that
military armament now stands at the thresh
old of unknown vistas the ends of which seem
to be limitless. Electronics, atomic energies,
rockets, jet propulsion, to say nothing of metal
lurgical. chemical, and plastic progress, all
nave the way to realms of research formerly
unknown to the artillerist and the tactician
and even now unpredictable to the scientist’.”
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British Foreign Policy
By ANNE O’HARE McCORMICK
By Wireless to the New York Times
LONDON, Nov. 14. — The echoes of the
Anglo-French talks and the Moscow conver
sations that are reverberating here give some
point' to a remark of A. J. Cummings in
this morning’s News Chronicle to the effect
that Mr. Churchill’s visit to Paris is ‘‘one
indication of the British Government’s slow
release from the domination of the State De
partment.” It is amusing to hear the British
complain of the subservience of British policy
to Washington in much the same terms as
Americans accuse our Government of follow
ing the lead of London. Mr. Eden character
izes such remarks as ‘‘nonsense,” and as far
as the British Government is concerned they
are. Far from feeling hampered by the “ready
subjection” to America which Mr. Cummings
deplores, Whitehall and Downing Street would
like the United States to take a stronger
initiative in international affairs.
There can be no question of the British
desire to see American influence maintaned
and strengthened in the post-war era. This
is a matter not of sentiment but of vital
national interest. Nobody here disputes that
the war could not have been won without
the United States and that there is no chance
of Deace without our intervention. It is true
nevertheless that in recent weeks the British
have been more active in working out a for
eign policy of their own than at any time
sine- America entered the war. This is partly
the result of our preoccupation with the elec
tion campaign but it is also due to a feeling
in official circles here that decisions in Europe
would be taken out of their hands unless they
moved quickly.
The long discussions in Moscow were for
the purpose of clarifying Russian and British
interests on the Continent. In these exchanges
the British statesmen had both successes and
failures. They succeeded in having a voice in
the Balkan settlements. Though it would have
been easy for the Red armies to push on to
Salonika, Moscow recognized the paramount
interests of Britain in Greece, and this gives
grounds for hope in London that Russian does
not covet a major role in the Mediterranean.
The hope is fortified by Russian willingness
to concede that Great Britain and the Soviet
Union have an equal interest in Yugoslavia.
There was formal agreement on this point,
which is very important to the future of the
Balkans, and its formal communication to
Marshal Tito and the Yugoslav Government
in London has considerably eased the tension
in that divided country.
Tho British did not succeed in solving the
Polish question. Public opinion in this country
is deeply troubled and divided on this issue.
More than anything it has served to cool the
enthusiasm for Russia which rose to fever
pitch in these islands while the Red Army
was fighting the Germans alone. The senti
ment is still fervent. The British-Soviet twenty
yeai pact has the strongest possible popular
support, but the people and the Government
are uneasy over Stalin’s attitude toward Po
land.
On the Polish side there is profound dis
appointment over the results of the Moscow
conference. Premier Mikolajczyk went to the
meeting with the idea that Polish-Russian idf
ferences were to be negotiated. Actually he
v/as called on to agree to a settlement already
made.
Neither Poles nor British appear keen over
the proposal to extend the Polish boundary
to the Oder. The Czechs have rejected a sug
gestion that they move their pre-war frontier
westward into Germany, and the Belgian For
eign Minister, when asked in Brussels a fort
nigh ago if Belgium wished to annex German
territory in reparation for damages inflicted
by the Nazi, replied with an emphatic, “No,
thank you. We have troubles enough.’’ Many
Poles feel the same way, but they declare
tha’ if they lose Lwow and the oil fields they
will be obliged to take all they are offered
in compensation.
In their gloom following Moscow the Poles
here continue to count heavily on the United
States. Since it has become evident that the
French will play a part in the European settle
men they are beginning to count also on their
historic friendship with France. One conse
quence of ibe week-end talks in Paris is that
the British too are taking France into their
plan- and calculations to an extent that could
not be foreseen even a month ago.
It is hardly too much to say that the British
rediscovered Europe in France. Until this
week European questions and European settle
ments have been discussed only with Russia
and the United States. The visit to Italy was
ar eye opener for Mr. Churchill in the sense
that it revealed conditions and problems that
could not be previewed from Moscow, Wash
ington or London. But France’s contribution
to the somewhat theoretic discussion of the
future was to make Europe real agaln—so
real and alive that Churchill and Eden came
hack from Paris encouraged, even exhilarat
ed.
What struck them both was something that
comes with a shock of surprise to every ob
server in France today. There are young
men in the French Government, new men
with a fresh and broader outlook than the
stale-minded politicians of the past. But be
yor.c that France itself seems to have become
young again. The British visitors were greatly
impressed by the youth of the crowds in the
streets It is strange that the leaders of vic
torious England came back with new hope
from their first visit to defeated France, but
this is what happened. They came back more
hopeful of the future of Europe and more
confident of their own ability to solve its
frightening problems.
SO THEY SAY
Sooner or later the German army will again
advance beyond the Reich’s frontiers and re
conquer the territorial forefield needed by the
greater Germanic empir. — Gestapo Chief
Heinrich Himmler.
We must not under any circumstances ac
cept a compromise peace, no matter how al
luring such a peace may be or how desirous
we may become of ending this terrible con
flict. — Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador
to Japan.
-- “FILL ’ER UP""
WITH THE AEF
Outwitting The Nazis
BY KENNETH L. DIXON
WITH THE AEF ON THE
WESTERN FRONT, Nov. 12—(De
layed) —UPi— The latest angle on
how to bust German morale con
cerns five guys out on patrol. They
included Lts. Ira Austin of Linn,
Kans , and Victor Schultz of Ripon,
Wis.; Staff Sgts. Lewis Smith of
Liberal. Kans., and Howard Hardy
of Council Grove, Kans.. and Sgt.
Dick Kerbs of York, Pa.
Deep behind the lines they spot
ted a German chow wagon, bound
to the front with hot food for the
Nazis. They shot the two Germans
aboard the wagon, which was load
ed down with meat, potatoes, black
bread and hot coffee. They couldn't
eat at all, so they destroyed it,
figuring that hungry nazis would
not fight nearly as hard as the
well-fed ones do.
Sgt. Frank Boyle of Omaha, Neb
a member of a quartermaster com
pany normally is not a front line
operator, but the other day his out
fit needed some watercans. So Boy
le went out to locate some.
Four hours after he and his de
tail had walked off, headquarter
was decidedly worried about them.
Then Boyle and his boys walked
back with 750 German water cans.
“Sorry I was delayed, sir,” said
Boyle, addressing his commanding
officer, “but we had to spe’n^' a lot
of time in foxholes.”
Pv\ Harold Freyer of (325 Hous
ton St.) New York City, formerly
a nationally-ranking checker play
er now is a battalion aid worker.
The other night, he just had re
turned from evacuating some
wounded when an enemy observer
spotted him. Freyer started to
move, but the enemy steadily made
counter-moves and outguessed him.
It seemed that a new shell landed
at every hiding spot he chose just
a moment before he chose it. Fi
nally he executed what he calls
“a double-triple umpt” and man
aged to get safely away. He says
he prefers checkers.
Pfc. John J. Famiglietti of Glen
Cove, N. Y., says, “tell Mom that
letter really raised my morale.”
A member of a combat engineer
outfit, he was lying in an impro
vised bed in a battered French
farmhouse at the front, wishing
he’d get some mail from home.
Suddenly the mail clerk yelled that
Famiglietti had a letter. He got up
to get it and returned to find that
a shell had smashed the room and
tern at least a dozen holes in his
blankets.
PFC. Julian Riley of St. Louis
hold the division record for a busy
night. A German motor column,
lost in the dark, ran into a road
block that he was guarding Ri
ley killed three Germans with a
machine gun. wounded another,
took 15 prisoners and captured
eight fully-loaded supply trucks and
two amublances—all single-hand
ed.
According to Geneva rules, Pvt.
Edmond C. Lasalle, medical aid
man from San Francisco, is not
allowed to fight, but they can’t
keep him from talking.
One evening he was captured
and taken to a German headquar
ters where an officer and nine men
questioned him. He talked all night,
and at dawn returned to the Amer
ican lines, leading the 10 supermen,
who were too tired to argue any
longer against surrendering.
Flue-Cured Tobacco
Prices Drop a Little
By The Associated Press
Prices declined slightly on old
belt flue-cured tobacco markets
yesterday, but were generally
steady on eastern and middle belt
auction centers, the War Food ad
ministration reported. All mar
kets closed on a successful week of
sales, however, with market aver
ages only a few cents below those
of last week.
WFA said that the downward
trend in old belt prices affected all
grades but that in no instance
was the loss more than $1 per
hundred from Thursday’s average.
Sales were heavy, with the bulk of
offerings composed of good to low
leaf, good to fair cutters and
smoking leaf.
Thursday’s sale on old belt mar
kets totaled 4,594,702 pounds at an
average of $44.96 per hundred. The
season total through the same date
was set at 145,878,024 pounds
which brought $41.99.
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ELECTED PRESIDENT
RALEIGH, Nov. 17.—(AT—J. S.
Rider of Sumter, S. C., was nam
ed president of the mid-southeast
ern gas association at a one-day
convention of the group here to
day.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Cigaret Supply Depends
On Tobacco Labor Pay,
Union Executive Says
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—m
—Cigarets will remain in short
supply unless tobacco workers’
pay goes up, a union witness
told wage-investigating sena
tors today.
Elizabeth Sasuiy, Washing
ton representative of the Unit
ed Cannery, Agricultural,
Packing and Allied Workers of
America, said 45 per cent of
workers in the food and tobac
co industries earn less than 65
cents an hour.
The measure before the la
bor subcommttiee on wartime
health and education would
declare straight-time pay un
der 65 cents to be substandard.
The witness asserted that the
current cigaret shortage "will
not be relieved by granting
high manpower priorities to
the tobacco processing indus
try, as proposed by the War
Manpower Commission, unless
substandard wages are rais
ed.”
-V
BANKERS HEAD DEAD
PONCA CITY, Okla., Nov. 17.—
UP)—Henry W. Koeneke, 52, presi
dent of the American Bankers as
sociation in 1941-42, died today af
ter a long illness.
The Literary Guidepost
By JOHN SELBY
“Nods and Becks,’’ by Franklin
P. Adams (Whittlesey; $2).
Each Monday, careful listeners
along the Lyons Plain road in Wes
ton, Conn., can hear a swoosh on
the black-top road service, and can
know that it is occasioned by
Franklin P. Adams, rushing for his
train. He rushes because he is usu
ally late, and worries because he
has one of those wonderful one-day
“Information Please” jobs and
doesn’t want to be late. If he
chooses, he can come home that
same night, and stay there for a
week, doing chores
One of his recent chores has been
to go through his past newspaper
product for nuggets. He has found
a lot, and the result is “Nods and
Becks.”
Mr. Adams has been so long on
Information Please that people
have almost forgotten the many
years he was an extraordinary
newspaperman. They may have
forgotten the day, too. when col
umnists were urbane and amusing
fellows, not sluggers, out to conk
something or somebody. In the
“Conning Tower” Mr. Adams used
to slay people on occasion, but he
did it with fineness and a surgeon’s
scalpel. It reads a lot better than
some other products I could name.
Most of the material is light. F.
P. A. has a violent allergy for fe
male poker players, one that crops
up here and there He lapses into
allegory once in a while, and some
times he even takes a fling at his
first love, the newspaper business,
for some of its more callous per
formances. As a story - teller in
print, there are few equal to F.
P, A., and his gift for light verse
is unique, because all of it has an
Adamsesque and unmistakable fla
vor.
"Nods and Becks” is therefore
the kind of book you should put on
your bed table and take by the
dessert spoonful , each night until
consumed. Then it should be re
moved to the guest chamber for
the benefit of visitors, whose gig
gles will be audible through any
but the most substantial walls.
They'll probably steal the book,
however.
*
MAN TELLS OF LIFE
ON 51 CENT WAGES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—CP)—
A middle-aged textile worker to
day described the difficulties of
supporting a family on 51 1-2 cents
an hour.
John Vernon of Danville, Va.,
one of a dozen or more workers
presented by CIO officials in sup
port of proposed legislation which
would declare straight-time wages
of less than 65 cents n hour to
be sub-standard, testified before a
Senate labor subcommittee.
Vernon, dressed in a worn blue
suit, told the committee on war
time health and education that he
formerly had a better job as a
weaver in the plant where he had
worked 25 years. He was demoted,
he said, when he refused a compa
ny request to tend 60 looms instead
of 43.
Under questioning by Senator
Pepper (D-Fla), who presided, and
by Solomon Barkin, research di
rector of the Textile Workers Un
ion, Vernon told of his humble liv
ing quarters, with cooking done in
a room where three of his children
sleep, of a $30 grocery bill he has
been unable to pay, and of inabili
ty to purchase clothing for hir»self
and wife.
Earlier, CIO officials had submit
ted voluminous testimony support
ing the bill, which was introduced
by Senator Pepper.
Emil Rieve, CIO vice president,
contended that if a downward
wage spiral were allowed to get
underway with a contraction of
production at the end of the year,
the result would affect 11,000,000
workers and would cost about $5.
500,000,000 a year, on the basis of
1943 wages.
It will not in itself be adequate
tt close the gap in buying power
but would be a considerable contri
bution to this end,” he said.
Barkin presented an endorse
ment of the bill by Phillip Murray,
CIO president, who said elimina
tion of substandard wages ‘‘must
be joined with a series of other
steps, such as the unfreezing of
wages now limited by the little
steel formula.’
-V
KILLED IN COLLISION
COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 17.—<£>)
—Richland County Sheriff T. Alex'
Reise said tonight a man identified
as 2nd Lt. Charles E. McConnell
of Morris Field, N. C., was killed
instantly when a.motorcycle he
was riding was in collision with a:
truck near here yesterday.
Interpreting
TheWar
By KIRKE L. SIMpsov
Associated Press War *
Bitter-end German *Balj*
and clogging mud
gains of the American*!'B:‘;al
break-through attempt
Aachen sector in Ge-n-,m
Berlin admissions o' ii‘r'but
encouraged hope that ass b^ea',(,
jectives can be reached vJf50 ob>
foe can bolster his .1- ^ th*
. Just what those objecth, r°Bt
is not yet quite clea- r., a:*
the German city st.adri', logr:e>
Rhine less than 30 mile/’8* **
American advance element. tr°m
the obvious focal point of theT''
sive shoulder-to-shoulder w5:
iunge of the First and Ninm
mies. 1111 >t
First impressions that tb. .
armies had been deployed V9
mile front from somhe "*40
Aachen to the vicinity ^ bL0*
invested Roermond on me \t'‘!sb
are not borne out by latter ad*
vices. Genera! Eisenhower apl i
to have concentrated hi, main*'
tack on a sector barely 25 mu
wide. As later indicated’the W*
lean two-army front runs from Z
vicinity of Geiienkirchen a.
of0rDhur0enAaChen’ t0 3 P°in‘ !0U!»
That virtually parallels the rer
formidable natural obstacle cor.
fronting the advancing troop. t>
is the Roer tributary of the Meuse
a minor stream in dry weatV
but now a muddy morass due*to
rains. _ The river flows through
what is little more than a guib
but crossing it under fire urde*
present conditions could not fal
to provide a difficult task.
The implication to be’ drawn
from the indicated narrow devel.
opmen, of the two American ar
mies and from British success in
uie xvuennuna sector to the north
is that possession and use of the
roads fanning out of Aachen to
cross the Roer toward Cologne is
of prime importance to the Allied
battle plan. Even with Roer
bridges destroyed their foundations
would permit quick construction
of emergency spans. On both sides
of the little river conditions away
from the hard surfaced roads as
described in field dispatches tends
to restrict mechanized elements.
As this was written American
approach to the west bank of the
Roer along the whole front was
indicated. In addition, should Brit
ish forces to the north succeed in
forcing the Meuse, the Roer would
be outflanked to aid the American
advance toward Cologne. On the
right of the American First army,
advance elements appeared to have
reached the narrow upper stretches
of the Roer south of Duren. A
crossing there would outflank the
Roer from the south.
Farther south German retire
ment before the American Third
army into the Saar river defense
system still is indicated but with
a growing probability tha* the
main Metz citadel will be held to
the last by a suicide rearguard.
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Daily Prayer
FOR LIFE’S SURPRISES
In Thine inscrutable providence,
O Infinite Ruler of the universe,
Thou hast appointed to us to live
in a time which is the turning point
of all history. Deep changes are
coming to human life. Unexpect
edness marks our routine liv
ing and our profound purposes.
Each day brings some surprise and
difficulty. Thou art giving us vic
tories in battle everywhere, but at
a cost which rends our hearts, V.'e
dimly foresee the revolution that
is overtaking all human plans and
purposes We walk through days
, crowded with portentous change. So
| in our blindness and uncertainty,
we turn to Thee, our Heavenly Fa
ther, to entreat a new conscious
ness of the supreme truth that Thou
| art working Thy purposes out. P«
pare us for what Thou art prepar
i ing for us. As docile children, n>y
we trust Thee unwaveringly, whs
ever surprises befall the won ■
Amen.—W.T.E i
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Lowrimore Addresses \
Accountants’ Session
RALEIGH, Nov. 17.—Charles S.
Lowrimore of Wilmington, P*
ident of the North Carolina o
elation of Certified Accountants,
which is holding its 25t.n anai
sary celebration in conjun 1
with the fifth annual 'imp-*-';
in accounting and taxation a
University of North Carolina --
week, addressed today s ses1^.
Discussing the tax status
family partnership ne
that “The Treasury v.-il^pri
challenge all family Pa!,,;;r.:;l
which in any way may
the possible evasion '
of taxation.’’ jpcj.
The trend of the recem
sions indicate that ’no
is widely divided in eVi
opinions of its members ■ {
denced by the numoer of ■ j
dissents. under
The family part: ersmp jth j
state law has an equal s ->-» ^
any other partnership aj-a ’ ;3.
ternal Revenue code^ does ,
hibit such partnerships- , 1
If the purpose of
family partnership i* 8r,i
or eliminate taxes * ’cjos<f !
probably will !treasury *nit ,
investigation by the * ■ jj r,?t
the courts but the r^0;1’ :;.e
be the basis for tax 1:8 .”wiu pot
facts without the m
support taxatior.
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wash them frequent^. j
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