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CHAPLIN’S LAWYER TO GIVE HIS S E LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—(£>)_ Verbal hostilities in the Charlie Chaplin paternity suit, recessed over New Year’s day, will be re newed Tuesday when the comic’s lawyer replies to the caustic broad sides of counsel for Joan Berry. For more than four hours, Joseph Scott, his bushy black eyebrows rising and falling and his arm* flailing, excoriated the 55-year-old Chaplin as “a reptile,” “a pestifer ous. lecherous hound,” “a cheap cockney cad,” ‘‘a master mechanic in the art of seduction” and “a little runt of a svengali.” Tuesday it will be the turn of Charles E. Millikan, Chaplin’s at torney, to tell the jury of seven women and five men his version of tiie case of 24-year-old Joan, the comedian’s former protege who is demanding that he be adjudged the father of her 14-months-old daughter, Carol Ann. Millikan's argument will be fol lowed by a rebuttal from Scott, and then Superior Judge Henry M. Willis will instruct the jury and send it out to deliberate. -V SOVIETS ENTER EAST SUBURB OF BUDAPEST (Continued from Page One) • mam defense line of t h e inner ring within Budapest.” Capture Houses Malinovsky’s forces, which two days ago were one to three miles northeast, east and southeast of Pest, broke in the streets of the larger part of Budapest on the east bank of the Danube and captured several blocks of houses. On the opposite bank of the Dan ube. the emissary of Marshal Feo dor I. Tolbukhin’s 3rd Ukrainian army was killed in the debris strewn streets of residential Buda alter he presented his terms and was returning to the Soviet lines. There was no immediate indica tion from Berlin whether the re newal of fighting in East Prussia presaged a major Soviet offensive. The Nazi DNB agency reported that "strong Soviet reconnoitering formations” — possibly seeking weak spots in Nazi lines before Insterburg — had broken through German lines on a 10-miles front between Ebenrode (Stalluponen) and Schlossberg (Pillkallen). but had been hurled back into no man’ s-land by Germany artillery. In this area, troops of Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky’s 3rd White Russian army last were reported 28 miles east of the great German rail center of Insterburg and 87 miles from Konigsberg, capital of Germany’s eastern province. West of the burning, devastated and mine-strewn streets of Buda pest, littered with thousands of en emy dead, Russian troops also hammering toward Vienna — 94 miles from advance Red army spearheads. The Germans were hurling every available man into violent tank batters in an effort to halt Soviet thrusts south of the Danube to ward Austria. The Nazi DNG agency reported that the Russians had sent forward two divisions in an effort to out flank the Bakony mountains be tween Mor and Felsogalla, 35 and 25 miles west and sothwest of Bu dapest respectively. Mor is 98 miles southeast of Vienna and 56 miles from Austria, but the ene my claimed that the Russians had been repelled in that sector. Southeast of Felsgalla, German broadcasts asserted that Nazi paz zers penetrated deeply into the flank of Soviet spearheads, annihi lated a Russian column and in fighting for one locality destroyed 19 out of 25 attacking Soviet tanks. -V KUOSEVELT DRAFTS ANNUAL MESSAGES (Continued from Page One) tiding officially that Mr. Roose ' elt has been elected for a fourth term. The annual message probably will review military progress; dis cuss in broad outline only what can be expected in the future, and present in some detail Mr. Roose velt's ideas of what the legislative and executive branches shod do to prepare the nation for the impact of reconversion to a peacetime economy. The budget is expected to call for expenditure of about $88,000, 000 000 (Bl during the fiscal year 1946, which begins next July 1. That sum would be about $11,000. 000,000 below the record $99,000, 000,000 which is being spent in the current fiscal year. The fiscal 1946 expenditures, ac cording to reliable estimates, will include about $78,000,000,000 (B) in the “war” classification—- again, •bout $11,000,000,000 (B) below what is spent this year. The remainder will inclule slightly more than $4, 000,000,000 for servicing the nat ional debt-which now stands at more than $231,000,000,000 (B) »nd about $5,700,000,000 (B) for non war activities. \VHpn tVwa npw roncress convenes *t noon Wednesday, Mr Roosevelt will find larger democratic maj orities in both house and senate than he has enjoyed for some time. The new Senate will have only one one more democrat than the pre sent Senate-57 to 56-but sev eral ardent isolationists have been replaced by more internationally minded legislators who will be more apt than their predecessors to lupport the president’s foreign pol icy. There will be 243 democrats in the new house, as compared with a 212-212 Democratic-Republican tie in the chamber’s lineup as today. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS Five-Striper iu. b. Navy Photo from NEA Newly - appointed Fleet Adm William D. Leahy, USN, chief o staff to the Commander-in-Chief o the U. S., is shown wearing hii new five-stripe uniform. Grange consist of a one-half-inch strip) added to dress uniform sleeves with the summer uniform to carri five-star insignia on the collar in stead of four. Marshall Purchases Home At Pinehursi PINEHURST, Dec. 30. — (UP)— General George C. Marshall, chiel of staff of the United States Army, and Mrs. Marshall have purchased a home here which they intend tc make their winter residence at the end of the war, it w’as an nounced here today. The announcement said that General and Mrs. Marshall have purchased Liscomb lodge and that Mrs. Marshall is expected to make her home in this golfing center and winter resort this spring. General Marshall, who-will be 64 years old on the 31st of Decem ber, would have been retired un der Army regulations but congress has enacted legislation prolonging the service of the chief of staff for an indefinite period. SHIPYARD AWARDED 15-SHIP CONTRACT (Continued from Page One) with the job, so that in the New Year our men, suported by the ships we build, shall have the full est opportunity to achieve complete victory and prepare the way to a lasting peace.” The latest contract brings the total number of ships awarded the yard to 243. Of this number it still has 53, including the 15 in the lat est assignment, to deliver. First ships built here wer the Liberty type and after completing 126 of these, the yard switched pro duction to the C-2, with contracts for 87. Later an additional contract raised this number to 102. Howev er, more than a score of these were converted to AKA naval com bat cargo ships. During the past year, the yard delivered 60 ships, 38 of which were for the Navy and the remainder for the Merchant fleet. The C-2 type ship, designed pri marily for caro but it whpaesn-s ger accommodations, has a length of 460 feet, beam of 63 feet and deadweight tonnage of 8,500 tons. Its cruising range is 16,200 miles. The yard’s 194th ship, the U. S. S. Siminole, was launched last Thursday morning under the spon sorship of Miss Pomela Cole, of Newport News, Va. This was also the 32nd combat cargo type to be built here. _it_ CHURCHILL VOICES ’45 VICTORY HOPE j (Continued from Page One) [ Athens had been freed from their ' oppressor. I The year had brolght a night mare of bombardments, devasta ' tion, sudden death and eternal . fear to Berlin and a dozen other German cities. It was the year in which Church ill, President Roosevelt and Pre mier Stalin set the stage for final victory. It was the year in which the battered German army, hurled back to its own frontier, rose like a prize fighter at the count of nine to lash out with frenzied strength in an effort to prolong the war or win a lenient peace. It was another year of what Churchill has called “blood, sweat and tears.” The Germans were driven from France, Romania and Greece, from most of Italy and Belgium and from parts of Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yu goslavia and Norway. -V Dashiell Hammett, American founder of the “hardboiled school” of detective fiction, was a Pinker ton detective for eight years, and worked on the Nivky Arnstein and “Fatty” Arbuckle cases. 1 KILLED IN ACTION Pfc Norwood O. Brooks, (shown above) of Wilmington and Seaside, was killed in action in France on Nov. 5, according to notification received from the War department by his mother, Mrs. George E. Brooks, of Seaside. Member of a well-known Bruns wick county family, Pfc. Brooks was graduated from Shallotte High school in 1935 and completed his education at Louisburg college and the University of North Carolina. Before entering the service on Sept. 3, 1943, he was employed by the North Carolina Shipbuilding company. He went overseas in February, 1944, and was a mem ber of an outstanding Infantry unit cited several times for gallantry in action. In addition to his mother, he is survived by four sisters, Misses Zelda, Lulu and Mary Brooks, and Mrs. John Furlong, and four brothers, Joe, John, George and James Brooks. _v_ VOTE TO RETURN KANSAS CITY, Dec. 30. — (£>)— Members of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Stores Union, (CIO) who have been on a strike at the Montgomery Ward mail order plant and retail store voted tonight to return to work. Free For Asthma During Winter If you suffer with those terrible at tacks of Asthma when it is cold and damp; if raw. Wintry winds make you choke as if each gasp for breath wut the very last; if restful sleep is impos sible because of the struggle to breathe; if you feel the disease is slowly wear ing your life away, don’t fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial of a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether you have any faith m any remedy un der the Sun, send for this free trial. If you have suffered for a lifetime and tried everything you could learn erf without relief: even if you are utterly discouraged, do r.ot abandon hope but send today for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Address frontier Asthma Co., 167R Frontier Bldg. 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo 1, New York STEEL WORKERS WIN APPROVAL OF RAISE (Continued from Page One) would cost between $75,000,000 and $80,000,000 a year. Steel company figures ranged up to 150,000,000. A difficulty in figuring the cost is the fact that the increases ap proved are not in the basic wage. The steel workers asked 17 cents an hour increase in basic wage but the WLB turned this down on the grounds it would violate the gov srnment’s wage stabilization pol-l cy. The main increase approved was i premium of 4 cents an hour for die second or early night shift and 5 cents for the third, or late night shift. This will affect the majority if workers since in most steel plants it is a practice for workers to rotate through the shifts at in ;ervals. These increases are retroactive to the expiration of old contracts, rhe expiration date varies from I plant to plant but most contracts i expired around December 26, 1942* In addition, the WLB directed ad- i justments to correct “inequities’' within plants, but ordered that in creases under this directive should not average more than 5 cents an hour for all of a plant’s employes. Also approved were vacations with pay. The WLB directed, too, that the companies and the union negotiate on a plan for severance pay. If they could not agree, the board said, it would undertake to settle the issues. -V Some insects, such as the aphids, have the ability to complete e j generation in a week or less. REDUCED i Just 10 FUR TRIMMED KENMOOR COATS In blue, beige and black Formerly sold for $98.00. 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