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PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1945 ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEMATS ACME TELEPHOTOS EIGHTEEN PAGES FIVE CENTS IU1 (7h r3 Tl JV A I ZS MS SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE TALLAHASSEE SUN F.D.R. HINTS NAZIS JABBING AT AMERICAN oldwell Praises IKIo Hand Gets Administration and end-off A i t. i iumi A 'V 4 -r Vi I I I A 5 J7 i A After a record-breaking 20-minute inauguration speech at Tallahassee yesterday, Governor Millard Caldwell leaned over the railing of the speaker's platform and shook hands with scores of citizens among the thousands who braved cold weather for the ceremonies. Caldwell wore the silk "topper" but said he much preferred his old "business bonnet." (Times Staff Photo by George MacArthur's Planes From Philippines Raid Formosa HEADQUARTERS, Philippines UP) 'BIG THREE' TO MEET SOON WASHINGTON (JP) President Roosevelt acknowl edged yesterday that there are some important differences among the Allied powers and implied that they concern European political and territorial problems. Moreover, he indicated that he doesn't hope to settle them all at his forthcoming meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin.

Sketching a rough background for this meeting in response to a rapid fire of news conference questions, the president declared that the Allies have a pretty good set of principles but that they are differently interpreted in different countries and under the circumstances, he said, you do the best you can. Earlier in the day, it was indicated that the Big Three probably will meet early in February, Senate Majority Leader Barkley said after talking with the president that Roosevelt had indicated he would meet Churchill and Stalin some time soon, to which House Majority Leader McCor-mack added "probably." The chief executive himself offered no clue as to his plans. When told of Barkley's report he said it's a question of the meaning of the word soon and he would suggest thaat it means anon. PRINCIPLES AND DETAILS Roosevelt also was asked about Prime Minister Churchill's statement that he had been in telegraphic correspondence with the president on the handling of the Greek situation, the implication being that the president had in some way subscribed to the British policy of using armed force in Greece. Roosevelt replied that the most important thing is to see that the populations of rescued countries do not starve.

We've all been thinking of that for a long time, he said. The discussion of differences among the Allies arose when a reporter remarked that British Ambassador Halifax said yesterday morning that consideration was being given to obtaining closer consultations among the Allies, particularly the United States, Britain and Russia. The president responded to that by saying the only way to get closer consultations is to have a common capital for all three countries and you can't do that. Actually, he added, there is an enormous volume of correspondence constantly going on among them. As for reported differences, he said, anybody who has to write all the time, and lie included those who write for magazines or in books as well as in the press, is likely to lose sight of the difference between principles and details.

Principles, he said, are a guide in the same way that the Ten Commandments are a guide al- See F.D.R., Page 2, Col. 4 oo New Governor Sees Need For New Revenue TALLAHASSEE (P)- New sources of revenue to carry out a program of de veloping the state's economic and social resources were called for yesterday by Millard F. Caldwell as he became Florida's twenty ninth governor in 100 years of 'statehood. Delivering his 20-minute inaugural address, the shortest on record, to an overcoated audience which packed the steps and grounds of the capitol, Caldwell declared that money "must be found" to extend the state's health, education, advertising and conservation activities. He spoke with an even-flowing, conversational tone in his voice as he declared that whatever new taxes are levied and he made no suggestions "must not only be reasonable; the tax revenue must be expended so wisely as to permit business to regard It, not as a burden or a loss, but rather as a sound paying investment." "It is my purpose to be an eco nomical executive in the sense that I will expect no public funds to be wasted, he said.

I do not however, propose by false and niggardly economy to delay or retard worthwhile development and growth." Gov. Spessard L. Holland, who surrendered his office to Caldwell, a few minutes earlier called attention to the "strong condi tion" of the various state funds and exDressed a hope that 'a substantial portion" of the bal ances "be held in reserve against unexpected needs, and that other cortions be used to bring to date niir lnnc deferred Drogram of building construction. "I am wholly mindful of the uncertainties under which we are living," Holland declared, after (listing accomplishments of his administration, which he said had aimed to "dispose of old problems and remove old obstacles to our continued growth and prosperity." (Turn to Page 9 for the Full Text of Caldwell's speech. It will take you only a few minutes to read it.) Divorce Granted Deanna Durbin LOS ANGELES MP) Movie Actress Deanna Durbin, 22, was granted a final decree of divorce yesterday from Vaughn Paul, film producer.

It was the first decree of the new year here. Miss Durbin won an uncontested preliminary decree in December. 1943. on grounds of mental cruelty. Thev had been married two years.

Paul is now a lieu tenant in the navy. VICTOR 0. WEHLE to the for to of aid we in to Inauguration Draws Crowds To Tallahassee By AL BARKER (Times Staff Writer) TALLAHASSEE A cold wind out of the north which a bright sun did little to mitigate put overcoats and mufflers on the thousands who today outside the Florida Capitol saw Millard F. Caldwell take oath as centennial governor, but it did not cut down the warmth of the atmosphere that has sur rounded his unruffled taking over of the reins from Spessard L. Holland.

It was the traditional ceremony, though with fewer here from distant counties and with less pomp and parade, but it differed in a few respects The speeches were short, unoratorical, to the point. All the doings went through with the well-oiled precision to be expected when a business-like governor gives way to one of like approach who may even outdo him. Greatest difference, however was the unbroken continuance of the almost tangible feeling of wishing well of the new administration that has marked all the preliminaries. If there were any disjointed noses or sore thumbs they were kept well out of sight Trained news and political observers felt almost on alien ground when they failed to hear a single grumble, or spy out any ominous head wagging. But they commented most, when Holland gave Caldwell a sendoff as "a strong, tall, clean young man" and the potential timber for a great governorship.

and when Caldwell very pointedly com mended Holland on a fine administration. ALSO READ Our Editorial on Caldwell's Speech, Page 6. Text of Caldwell's Speech, Page 9. Other Inauguration News and Pictures, Pages 8 and 9. It was not always thus in fact, is generally far different for many an incoming governor, with thin indirection, has borne down on the grievous questions faced by a new administration that would then proceed to save the state from utter disaster.

The inference in those cases, of course, was tnat tne last administration and it alone had brought us to the pictured unhappy state. Well, Caldwell bore down on the truly grievous questions ahead, but his outline was in large part a projection upon the structure Holland has built. Caldwell In fact was joined by Holland in his last speech as governor, In calling for a conservation of financial resources a plain team-play appeal to legislators and the "wanters" of the body politic not to start and treasury raids. The big problems of the next four years with unexpected loss of revenue in the face of education, health, conservation and other needs stressed by Caldwell standing at the top were set forth merely as hurdles created by war times and the need to go ahead rather than by administrative derelictions of Holland or anybody else. It was a dignified ceremony, complete with 17-gun salute and ritualistic passing over of the great seal of the state from Secretary of State R.

A. Gray, to Holland to Caldwell but it had its little intimate touches that gave the proceedings the aspect of a family party. Receiving the rolled up, beribboned seal. Caldwell nodded acknowledgment, and promptly handed it to Mrs. Caldwell to hold, while he gave all attention to the further events.

The new first lady al- POSITIONS PA Ptc troops were jabbing today at nearly a dozen places from Saarbrucken to the Rhine against U. S. Third and Seventh Army positions in a series of diversionary thrusts that had gained as much as two miles in at least one point. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WESTERN FRONT: U. S.

Third Army lunges forward two miles to further reduce German wedge into Belgium; enemy radio says Patton throws 100,000 men into struggle in Bastogne-St. Hubert area; Germans in furious attacks smash dent in U. S. Seventh Army front south of Bitchie; U. S.

heavy bomber fleet pounds at enemy's rear for eleventh straight day. EASTERN FRONT: Russian broadcasts indicate bloody siege of Budapest near end; Soviet troops fight house to house in "annihilation" attack against defending Germans. PACIFIC FRONT: U. S. Liberators continue round-the-clock smashes against Japanese air installations on Iwo Jima island; U.

S. navy reports loss of submarine, medium landing, ship and two motor torpedo boats. ASIATIC FRONT: U. S. 14th Air Force reports destruction of 25 Japanese planes at Suchow; in Burma, British jungle troops occupy Mu canal village of Kabo, northwest of Mandalay.

Nowhere had these counter blows assumed anything like the piuyui nuns ui me uiean-uuougn Marshal Karl Gerd von Rund-stedt had achieved in the Belgian bulge. There he was already making his first gesture of withdrawal under the hammering of 2,500 Allied warplanes which smashed at enemy troops, armor and installations from the base of the wedge to the Rhine. A sizable dent has been made in the U. S. Seventh Army front south of the Maginot line bastion of Bitche, close to the German border, field dispatches disclosed, but this push has been slowed almost to a standstill after gaining as much as two miles on a five-mile front.

A new series of counter-thrusts has been opened by Von Rund-stedt on the Third Army front farther west. These fresh blows to the south, delivered with the same fury that marked the assault against the First Army in Belgium in Luxembourg last month, were launched on New Year's Eve. ALLIED AIRMEN ACTIVE An apparent miscalculation in the weather has worked against the Nazis, however, since clear skies have permitted complete aerial support of the American ground troops. Disclosure that the Germans appeared to be withdrawing from their Belgian salient followed a U. S.

3rd Army advance of more than two miles into the Nazi southern flank. Moreover, the Allied high command lifted the 36-hour embargo on news from the Belgian bulge last night, disclosing that the fringes of the enemy wedge have been comparatively stabilized since the 3rd Army's thrust. No startling developments in the last 36 hours were revealed, although it was admitted that some reports might have been delayed because of the time required for the order lifting the See WAR, Page 2. Col. 5 ister of Greece after overthrowing King Constantine in 1922, and earned the nickname of the "strong man." He fled the country in 1933.

however, after an unsuccessful coup against that government. He is regarded as conservative on most problems except that of monarchy. Before Plastiras took over the task of forming a new government, he conferred privately several hours yesterday for the second consecutive day with Archbishop Damaskinos, who was named regent of Greece after Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to Athens in an attempt to solve the Greek crisis. Premier Goorsje Papandreou has announced that lie will not participate in a new cabinet. As negotiations went on for formation of a regency government, fighting continued between lei -wing KLAS troops and forces of the British army and me Greek government, although on a reduced scai.

the first time today in a com announcement that navy patrol MacArthur southwest Pacific north into Japanese waters. PIECE WORK COMES UNDER WAGE LAW WASHINGTON (U.P) The su preme court held in an eight to one decision yesterday that the lederal wage-hour law applies to piece-rate workers. The Perfect Garment company, Los Angeles, charged with minimum wage and overtime viola tions, had won dismissal of the allegations as to piece workers in caluornia district court on grounds the wage-hour act was not intended to cover such workers. Justice Frank Murphy, who ead the ruling interpreting the act, said, "We cannot assume congress meant to discriminate" against piece workers when it enacted the minimum wage and hour standards. GRACIE ALUM Well, I don't know about your house, but at our house the holi day spirit is as cold as congress man Ham fish seat in the house of representatives.

Today George is starting on his income tax statement. I like the way George is taking the whole thing. Mr. Morgenthau is the first person wan vv ueorge nas ever seemed willing to share my salary. One thing I must say, I.eniov reading the income tax laws.

It's just like a wonderful continued mystery story. You think you've got the solution figured out one year, then congress comes back after the holidays, all rested and full of turkey, and zing! the suspense goes on for another year. The government might make a little extra money by publishing the tax rules as a mystery novel titled possibly, "The Case of the Missing Fiduciary, or "Whos Withholding Who?" MERRILY TEA ROOM 402 Beach Drive north Lunch Dinner Closed Fridays Adv, CALDVELL SAID Highlights of Governor Millard Caldwell's inaugural address: (Full Text, Page 9): "It is my purpose to be an economical executive in the sense that I will expect NO public fund be wasted. I do not, however, propose, by false and niggardly economy, to delay or retard worthwhile development and growth." "The state treasury is solvent and each of the funds current (but) it should be emphasized that the state possesses no bottomless barrel into which it can dip for new aims and new purposes." "The funds on hand and to be contemplated from existing tax sources are earmarked and obligated to presently authorized needs. NO money is on hand or to be anticipated from present tax structure to pay an adequate extension of the state's services in education, health, advertising or conservation.

They are definite needs to challenge our attention but money finance them must be found." "Taxation must not only be reasonable the tax revenue must be expended so wisely as to permit business to regard it. not as a burden or a loss, but rather as a sound paying investment. Each tax dollar should earn dividends and bring permanent returns to the taxpayer." "The trend toward centralization of governmental powers has progressed too far and must be curbed. In our consideration proposals for increased state to local units of government, must not lose sight of the fact that control always follows the dollar Let those who advocate state aid to municipalities carefully read the record." "There is no stronger appeal to new residents and new investors than the ability to say that Florida stands at the top of the list of states in health and education. We cannot make that claim now but we can anticipate definite progress to that end." "The only way to enhance the general prosperity is to improve the condition of industry, business and individual citizens.

Stability and security in employment will never come through government expedients they can only come through the normal functioning of a sound economic system. "WE 3II ST DO MORE TOWARD THE HUSBANDING AND CONSERVATION OF OCR RESOURCES." "In the selection of state officials, department heads and board members, I have sought to apply the principles of good busi ness. "The returning veterans must find their places in our communities with job opportunities permanent employment, The permanent solution lies in measures to increase the flow of trade, to expand our industries, enhance the prosperity of agn culture and to stimulate our tourist business." APPOINTED VICTOR O. WEHLE burg Bar association; president and four times secretary of Jef-fersonian Democratic club; for 12 years president of the Sunshine Rifle and Pistol club; president of the Men's Civic Glee club; vice See WEHLE, Page 8, Col. 4 I VI New Congress Meets Today (See Editorial on Page 6) WASHINGTON.

(U.P.) Pres ident Roosevelt yesterday unequivocally endorsed War Mobil ization Director James F. Byrnes recommendation for legislation to stiffen war manpower controls, indicating the work or fight pro gram will receive early attention of the seventy-ninth congress which convenes today. Asked at his news conference if there were any of Byrnes' proposals which which he differed, Roosevelt replied with a flat no. He declined, however, to discuss details, saying they should be left up to congress. F.D.R.

MESSAGE SATURDAY The president, who conferred with his legislative leaders yesterday morning, revealed that his annual state of the union message will be sent to congress on Saturday and will be followed by his annual budget next Tuesday. Neither will be delivered per sonally. The Byrnes report, described by the WMR director as intended to put the war program on a horse instead of a mule, provided the first glimpse of the legislative program the administration will offer as its part in speeding victory and laying the ground work for peace. Roosevelt may fill in some details in his annual message Saturday. Byrnes acknowledged that the administration lacks adequate authority over manpower and asked congress to arm the government with these legislative weapons.

1. Authority to assign 4.000,-000 4-Fs to war jobs as well as limited military service unless See CONGRESS. Page 2, Col. 4 pected to hit the midwest overnight, routing ub-zero cold in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, but bringing along with them light precipitation in scattered sections. Florida, which experienced light frost Monday night, had a forecast of fair and colder for last night and today, with a small craft warning covering an area from Miami through the Florida keys.

Highway snowplows shoved huge drifts from roads in north central Ohio yesterday, reopening traffic lanes after 85 motorists were hospitalized for frostbite and exposure, and additional hundreds, rescued by the state's highway patrol, were given shelter from a violent blizzard in Bowling Green, Plymouth, Mansfield, and other communities. Pennsylvania and New York, which also had heavy falls of snow, accompanied by bustling wind, likewise struggled to restore traffic and communications to normal. Shutdowns of schools and industrial plants, many of the latter engaged in war work, were numerous In the blizzard areas. The Republic Steel corporation announced that inability to move frozen coal from freight cars, with resultant shortage of gas, had forced temporary cloning of steel producing units at Cleveland, Massillon, Warren and Youngs-town. The sudden cold, however, had at least one compensating effect.

It checked a threat of serious floods in Pennsylvania. West Virginia and Maryland by congealing week-end rain and halting further thaw. GENERAL MacARTHUR'S Formosa figured prominently munique from this headquarters planes attached to oen. Douglas command made a new penetration The communique, reporting this first strike by southwest Pacific planes so far north of the Philippines, said they had shot down four Japanese planes and set fire to five coastal freighters east and south of Formosa Sunday. (Pacific coast carrier task force planes raided Formosa early in October, and the long-held Japanese island, some 225 miles north of the Philippines, was bombed three times by B-29s between the first and middle of October.

This was just prior to the invasion of the Philippines by McArthur's forces.) The new long-range blow came after fighter bombers operating from fields on Leyte and Mindoro islands, in the central Philippines, had hammered targets and shipping at vital Luzon island. Warehouses, railroad installations, power plants and wharves on southern Luzon were attacked, the communique said. Medium bombers operating over Luzon north of Manila caused fires and explosions at Laoag and sank a merchantman and a gunboat off the coast. Mitchell bombers started fires on the Negros airdrome in the central Philippines. Patrol boats sank four barges in the same area.

Heavy and medium bombers also raided Mindanao, in the Phil ippines; Borneo and Celebes, in the Dutch Indies; the Lesser Sundas; Rabaul, New Britain; Kavieng, New Ireland and Bougainville. On Leyte 778 additional Jap anese fighting men were killed. Meanwhile Japanese Lt. Gen, Masaharu Hoinrna, ex commander in the Philippines, warned the Nippon people to expect American landings on Luzon and added "as long as Luzon is fully in our hands, the enemy's attempts to recapture the Philippines will not be realized." A strike at Iwo last Sunday the 25th consecutive day of attacks a announced shortly after Radio Tokio broadcast an estimate by the Japanese newspaper Asahi that "approximately 550 B-29 bombers" have been destroyed or damaged since they opened their bombing campaign against Nippon homeland industries. The Asahi estimate, not confirmed by American official quarters, included acknowledged unconfirmed reports as well as guesses.

U. S. Pacific fleet headquarters reported American fliers ushered out the old year by blasting strategic Iwo. The Liberators continued their round-the-clock smashes against Iwo air installations. They met moderate ack-ack fire.

Monday the Japanese made a weak attempt to raid the American Superfortress base at Saipan. A lone Nippon plane dropped a single bomb. There was no damage. Marine fliers attacked Rota island, between Saipan and Guam, and maintained he pace of their neutralizing strikes in the Marshal Is. They alo strafed fuel dumps and other targets at Ba-belthunp, Japanese base in the Palaus north of Aniericaii-held islands in that chain.

In Washington the navy reported loss of a submarine, a medium landing ship and two motor torpedo boats. It said the I SM and one PT were sunk in Philippine water. It did not say just where the submarine Haider was lost. for with Temperatures Below Zero To Linger in East Today COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Gen. Plastiras Takes Job Of Forming Greek Cabinet By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Atlantic seaboard states from Florida through New England felt the sting of a severe cold wave last night while the Great Lakes region got a sprinkle of snow as warm air fronts moved in from the southwest and northwest.

The weather bureau said subzero temperatures would hang on in the east today, but that there probably would be no repetition of blizzards which had piled up traffic-blocking drifts in Michi gan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. It was generally cloudy late yesterday in Missouri, Kansas. Oklahoma and Arkansas, and Iowa and Missouri were pelted with light snow. In the northwest, where the temperature dipped to 23 degrees below zero in St. Cloud, Monday night, the mercury also was moving up.

The cold wave bit deep into the south with a minimum of 21 above registered at Atlanta, Ga and light frost covering Florida. In the midwest yesterday Park Falls, registered seven below and Milwaukee three below. Minneapolis, where the temperature dipped to 13 "below early yesterday, warmed up to zero by midafternoon. Forecasters said temperatures generally were warming up in the Dakotas. Nebraska and western Iowa.

Temperatures ranged around 20 above on the eastern seaboard. Converging warm fronts, the weather bureau said, were ex The post of prosecuting attor- ney of Pinellas county, held by Incumbent John Dickinson, temporarily has been turned over to Victor O. Wehle, prominent local attorney and associate judge of municipal court. Announcement was made yesterday simultaneously with news that the Orange county judgeship held bv Victor Hutchins now is being filled by John G. Baker of Orlando.

Dickinson at present is a captain in the army. Politically active for years here in local and county affairs, Attorney Wehle also has played an outstanding role in community and civic organizations. In 1934 he was a candidate in the June primary for state legislature from district three, and in 1840 was candidate for the house of representatives in group one. In June of (his year, Wehle was named associate judge of muni-cinal court for a term ending in October, 1945, and this spring he served as campaign manager in southern Pinellas county for Mil lard Caldwell, yesterday inaugurated as governor of the stale. Other of Attorney Wchle's activities list him as having been secretary, vice president and finally president of St.

Peters- 'ready was holding a precedent Jjir this state the closed zippered ATHENS (U.P) Sixty-two-year-old Gen. Nicholas Plastiras who dethroned one king and led an unsuccessful coup against another last night assumed the ticklish job of forming a new Greek government which will be acceptable to all Greeks and thus end the civil war in this country. Plastiras agreed to form the new government after conferring with Archbishop Damas-kinos, recently named regent of Greece. Plastiras would be acting premier of Greece under Damask Inos who would continue to represent the king. Plastiras, the "strong man" of the 1922 Greek revolution, bitterly denounced the left wing KLAS group, now in revolt against the government of Premier George Papandreou, when he returned to the country after an 11-year exile.

His new government must also please the KLAS all of which makes hi? task even more difficult. Plastiras became prime min Kible on wmcn her inn, lanit nus-band had placed his hand when sworn in by Chief Justice Rivers Buford. Inscribed to her, it had been presented by Judge Btiford immediately after the oath taking. The audience meanwhile, occupying big temporary stands at the east portico of the Capitol, standing on broad expanses of lawn and driveway, crowding closed-off Monroe street and every available fac See CALDWELL, Page 8, Col. 8.