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Use Of Denied OceMpatioH Tmx njMff, Officials THE LINCOLN STAR HOllIC KDITIOIS Fire 2-2222Telephone 2-1234 Police 2-6844 Nvbraskat Rain In portion coolor In northwonl with cootnr In noflhwotl, coolor la wati. In hall Ertdaf Lincoln; rain tonlthli Httla In lonlthi and fridaj FORTY-FIRST YEARLINCOLN, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 0, 1943 FIVE CENTS In the event that the city council levies an occupation tax against the lowa-Ncbraska Light St Power natural gas gross earnings in Lincoln, the company piobably will in.si st that a similar levy be made again.st the gross earnings of power companies doing business here, as well as coal operators and distributors of fuel oil. There also is a possibility tbat the company may resist such a levy on the grounds that its gas main.s do not occupy any portion of the streets, as has been contended by at least one i member of the council. That one or the other, and perhaps both of these eventualities may be advanced was brought out Thursday morning at a conference between members of the city council, and officials of the utility.

Among the latter were L. R. King, president; George A. legal counsel, and C. C.

Hellmers, Lincoln district manager. Representing the council were the members tf a special committee appointed some time ago to investigate the advisability oi setting up an occupation tax against the company. Mayor Marti and D. L. Erickson, director ol public improvements also sat in.

The committee members are Arthur J. Weaver, chairman, Virgill Kitrell, and Rees Wilkinson. Presents Stand. Suggestion of the stand the company may take, was brougni out by Mr. Lee, in a presentation of the legal phases in assessing an occupation tax, as defined by court decision.

At the same time, he contended that Councilman arguments that the utility is using the streets and, therefore, shoula pay an occupation tax is not well founded. The lowa-Nebraska company is only using the streets, Mr. Lee stated. It is just as reasonable to say that an occupation tax should be charged against the company if the mams were suspended nigh in the air, he declared, as it is to say that a charge should be made lor using the streets. Do Not StreeU.

The gas mains, Mr. Lee pointed out, not in the streets. They do not use any part of the streets. They are under the ground. They are there by sutierance of and under regulavions and laid down by the city council." In summing up his presentation of data revealing revenues and expenses, President King took no dciinite stand against an occupation tax.

He expressed a bsuei, however, that since the company has made two reductions lates recently, plus the added fact that gas rates in Lincoln are the lowest in section of the country, it would appear that We some favorable consideration. This is especially true when it is considered that during the first few years of our operation in distribuiing natural gas we it on the Tells Lowering of Rates. President King reviewed at length recent conversations between representatives of the company and the city council, which resulted in the lowering of rates to the extent of a year, which was only part of $184,000 a year reduction in the wholesale cost to the company. That only the $104,000 in reductions was approved by the council also was pointed out. While referring to the cutting of gas rates, Mr.

King digressed long enough to bring out that in the gas utility, a city ownen property, received a reduction amounting to $89,000, and that one cent of it was passed to the Of the $80,000 that was not passed to the consumer here, Mr. King said, was set up as a cushion against a possible which also was approved by the city council. Emergencies have arisen, Mr. King stressed, and $42,000 of the OB Two) 100 To Gel Por Awards In Lincoln there will be 100 achievement awards given for by the state 4-H office, Henry Ludemann, assistant county agent, announced. That number has completed summer 1 and turned in reports of the gardening and canning activities.

number is small compared to our original enrollment of 1,100 said Ludemann, but this does not mean that 1,000 gave up their gardening. Achievement certificates are awarded only to these who also made out reports on their inquest in To ToUotv Finding Of 3 Girl Pen ics Infant Before charges are pressed again.st the confessed mother ol the dead baby boy found in a garbage truck last Tuesday, an will be held to determine if the child was strangled in birth or afterwards, reported Deputy County Attorney Farley Young, Thursday. The inquest will be held tonight at 7:30, at Roper and Sons. Ruth Gregg. 20-year-oId cleaning establishment employe, confessed late the previous aiternoon, her face streaked with tears, that, was my baby, but I kill was born dead or died during To testify at the inquest Thursday evening will be the girl herself and Sgt.

John Carlberg, soldier who claims he knew nothing of what took place in his bathroom where the baby was born, until Tuesday evening when the girl confessed to him. Others will be Wilfred C. Burke, photographer who recorded the scene of the incident; Barbara Carlberg, sister of the soldier, who lived in the same apartment; Mrs. Vera Penter, resident in an adjacent apartment. Bob Evans, landlord, Dr.

George Lewis and Dr. Frank Tanner, K. W. Johnson, the garbage-collector, Mrs. Cha.se Emerson, landlady of Ruth apartment.

Detective Harbaugh, Captain Masters, Deputy Hasson, Sheriff and Day Matron Lucille Beighley. Members of the jury will be: Richard Westover, Cal Edwards, Howard Hadley, Kirk Radmore, Gardner Moore and Leo Beck. Young declined to relate the manner in which the mother was discovered, divulging only a hint that law officials had been active every hour since Tuesday in canvassing neighborhoods for information. Obviously the physical appearance of the woman before and after the birth had attracted the attention of some. The story told by the girl as she sat in the county office, related how she gave birth to the child without medical care.

She said the child was born in the Bond Drive On Last Lap; Total Is Lincoln and Lancaster county workers in the third war loan drive reported 11,071,451 in additional sales Thursday noon, bringing the total to $10,729,418, or an average of $112 per capita. With the quota given the city and county of $12,207,500, and with only three daily reports yet to be made, officials in the office were anxiously scanning the calendar and columns. There seemed to be a general feeling that the quota would be reached and probably exceeded, but no one seemed ready to take success for granted. J. R.

Kinder, war Hnance chairman said, practical demonstration of what buying means was brought home clearly this morning when the learned that the soldiers at the Lincoln air base have made $170,000 in extra cash purchases so far this month in addition to their regular payroll deduction allotments. Our soldiers are giving us an excellent example of the As civilians we do as much. the goal is in continued Kinder, it can be reached. But we must not falter. A tremendous effort has been put forth by upwards of 1,500 workers and to fail by a small margin would be most discouraging to them.

Every individual who has not should do so before Saturday night. Even though missed by the canvassers, all transactions should be completed bathroom of a soldier apartment in University Place last Thrursday night. Body In Sack. While the soldier waited outside the door during her four hours of labor, the child was born. The cloth found around the neck, which post-mortem findings said might have been used to strangle the infant, was placed there by herself to aid labor the girl said.

The child was dead at this time, she claimed. The soldier, Sgt. John Carlberg, stationed at Ashland and renting the apartment here with his sister, was detained Wednesday foi questioning. He is not the father ot the child however, the girl insisted According to Miss Gregg, she told the soldier she was ill, entered the bathroom and stayed for the extended length of time. The stains and soiled towels which she left in the bathroom were cleaned up later by Mrs.

Vera Penter, next-door apartment resident, whose family also had the same bathroom at their dis- OB Pago Two) KET TIGHTENS She' Kiev Vasit SM 9112.33 CSPITIV Ihe Attack Ttdoy 2 7 50 a AMERICAN CASUALTIES MOW 115,000 Through Sept. 15 WASHINGTON, Sept. casualties of the armed forces have reached approximately 115,000. Secretary of War Slimson disclosed today that army casualties to date total about 85,000, while figures announced by the navy department placed naval casualties at 30,162, 'The navy total included 11,258 dead, 5,305 wounded, 9,456 missing and 4,143 taken prisoner. The total, Stimson told a press conference, included the period from Dec.

7, 1941, through casualties at Salerno, and up to and including Sept. 15. The casualties at Salerno, where the allied beachhead was established in Italy and now is expanding, totalled 3,500 killed, wounded and missing. A Stimson gave this breakdown for the war casualties, not including Salerno: kll'ed Wounded MI ng 3I.74J Taken prUoner 39,451 American Sub Wins Citation WASHINGTON, Sept. U.

S. submarine Gudgeon sank 19 Japanese ships, including ie submarine, and damaged three her ships in eight war patrols in the Pacific, the navy reported today in announcing award of a presidential unit citation to the ship. Unit citations are awarded for above and beyond the high standard expected of our (By the Associated Press.) Russian army siege guns were lepoited shelling the Germans today on the high clifis of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, firing frcm close-range in the suburbs on the ea.st bank of the Dnieper river. Dispatches said the Russians had seized the entire east bank suburbs, some less than 100 yards acrcss the river from Kiev, and had gained a foothold on Truk- hanov island, which lies directly below the walls of the city. More than 6 000 Germans were killed in pitched battles around Kiev a munique said.

Near White Russia Border. Other swift-striking Russian columns were reported driving toward the northern borders of White Russia, soviet republic on the central front, within 110 miles of the old Polish frontier, and were threatening to cut the last rail link between the northern and southern German armies. Soviet capture of Kremenchung, on the east bank of the Dnieper between Kiev and the great hydro-electric power center at Dnepropetrovsk, wa.s hailed as a major victory in Moscow. A munique said that in two months the Russians had advanced 185 to 250 more than 192,000 square miles of territory and freed millions of soviet people. At Foot Of Mt.

Vesuvius, Taken i Maziis Pulling Out Of Maples Connell To Read um FranehlNO At Speelal meeting The city council will meet in cpecial session at 8:30 Friday morning and read a second time the proposed franchise ordinance now in process of enactment for Lincoln City Lines, Inc. The action is being taken on a belief that the agreement between the city and the company covering the payment of $125,000 for removal of rails and repairing the pavement may reach Lincoln during Thursday afternoon. As soon as this agreement reaches here, the ordinance will be passed, and a certified copy sent to the state railway commission with a request that a fare of 5 cents be established for Lincoln bus riders. A copy of the ordinance will be required, the council was informed today, to show that an agreement has been reached by the city and the utility company. Word that the agreement should reach Lincoln any was given to the council by Gieorge A.

Lee, legal representative of the company Draft Charge Russell Leroy Norton, 19, Alma, was sentenced to three years in Federal prison Thursday after- ntxin by Federal Judge John W. Delehant on a charge of failing to report for induction into the army. Allied Military Chief Confers With Badoglio Aboard WmrMhip ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. Dwight D. Eisenhower, allied commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean theater, conferred with Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio on military co-operation aboard a warship at Malta yesterday, an official announcement said today.

Accompanying Eisenhower were Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, allied ground commander; Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, commander of allied naval forces in the Mediterranean; Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, the Mediterranean air commander; Harold MacMillan, British minister in North Africa, and Robert Murphy, United States minister in north Africa. principal topic of discussion was the method for making the most effective Italian military effort against the common enemy, said the official announcement. Drafted Dads To Be 14 Pet. Quota Approximately 14 per cent of the selective service inductees during October will be fathers, Brig.

Gen. Guy N. Henninger, state director, announced Thursday. Father inductions are slated to begin on Oct. 15.

The estimate is based on a spot check of 15 of the 105 local boards in Nebraska. In discussing the inauguration of the father inductions, the general stressed that selective service does not consider inductees who were placed in Class 1-A because they failed to move from non-deferrable employment or because they violated farm deferments, as fathers, regardless of their family status. Explains Set-Up. Thus, he said, his 14 per cent guess concerns only fathers who, while not in non-deferrable employment, still did not qualify for occupational deferment. Whether Nebraska local boards will be able to deliver their October calls in full is problematical.

Some local boards, the general said, have been hesitant, pending the outcome of congressional debate, to begin reclassification of fathers, despite instructions. As a result some boards may not now have time to complete reclassification of fathers from 3-A to 1-A to meet October deliveries but any deficiencies arising must be made up in subsequent calls. proportion of fathers included in the October General Henninger said, greater than we estimated it would be two months ago. Error in our estimate resulted because we anticipated a greater response to the pressure of the non- deferrable program than actually Hattered Foe Heads Mortli Gormanii ClillflrpB (By the Associated Press.) U. S.

Fifth army troops drove beyond newly-captured Pompei at the foot ot Mt. Vesuvius today and dispatches from allied headquarters said the Germans had apparently fled into Naples and on to the north after machinegunning women and children in the, streets. NAVY DIVE BOMBERS rolura lo an oircroH crraolr tomowboro in Boutb Pacific dollroring hoary blows against inslaJIationa In tbo Mantis. 19. Mon than 200 sortios won mado by carrior- basod aircraft and landbasod army and nary pianos from rarlous basos ia tbo contra! and south Pacific aroas.

This is on official Unltod Slatos aary photograph. (Intornational) CONTRACTirVG DEFEMSE LIMES lUnr Summary Omaha Wemaa Fa ees Charge Of Bigany BLAIR, Sept. 30 (AP) Washington County Attorney Waiter G. Huber said today he is holding an Omaha couple on charges of bigamy, after he learned that the woman involved married her fourth husband without getting a divorce from her third. Huber said the woman is Mrs.

Mary Smith Hawman Frish Rowe Milbum, 40, and that she is charged with marrying Leonard Milbum, 34, before obtaining a divorce from Sgt. Elza Rowe, believed to be in Sicily with American troops The marriage to Rowe took place Aug. 31, 1942, in Sarpy county, Huber added. Milbum was married to the woman at Blair Dec. 21, 1942, Huber declared.

Wtmmd Baaiage Sait Suit was filed Thursday in District court against the C. B. St Q. askinf $2,976 for damage done the property of Fred Kaiser at 324 A street during the Salt creek flood of 1942. Douglas County Is 19 Over Mew Bond Quota OMAHA, Sept.

30 (AP) Douglas county sales in the third war loan drive have reached $33,381,348, an increase of $3,140,000 over report, war finance headquarters said today. The sales represent 89 per cent of the new voluntary quota and 10 per cent over the original assigned quota. Lancaster county sales now stand at $10,729,518, or 87 per cent of the quota. It gives the county a per capita average of $112.33. Omaha Efforts Landed.

Commenting on Douglas county sales, Allen T. Hupp, chairman of the Omaha-Douglas county war finance committee, said: looks as if Omaha is going to do its shara and more than its share in carrying the load. With only one-sixth of the population and approximately one-fourth of the wealth, Omaha will be carrying three- eighths of the war bond Toad, assuming that tne state goes over the Douglas county has accepted the challenge of Kimball county that the latter would have a higher per capita war bond purchase figure than Douglas county. Sakmumamu Deaii NEW YORK. Sept.

The Swedish news agency said today it had received word of the death in Eskilstuna, Sweden, yesterday of Edvard Johansson, 79, inventor of the Johansson precision gauge, widely used in the of and equipment By J. E. LAWRENCE Thursday, September 30, 1943. gl THE anniversary of the sifnlng of the Munich Adolf Hitler solemnly assured the late Neville Chamberlain satisfied territorial aspirattoiis, and would avert Germany back-tracking on all of the European fronts. Its retreat in Russia continued precipitate; in Italy, slow and carefully planned.

But together they project the long anticipated contraction of German defense lines into a small circle about the Reich Hitler always had said he will stand or fall. The exact status around Naples was not clear. The nasis still were fighting bitterly both in Italy, and wherever they came into contact with soviet forces, but it was clear their strength had been sapped, particularly in the air. GERMANS PULLING Berlin dispatch Thursday by way of Stockholm, said Marshal Kesselring had evacuated Naples after destroying harbor installations. And theh came strange language.

and on a big scale were partly forcing the Berlin said. In simple terms, It meant that the people of Naples, a city of nearly a million people, bad turned upon their tormentors, and in days of agony were doing everything possible to drive out the German defenders. Officially General Eisenhower announced the fall of two more Italian cities in the steady advance of General American Fifth army on the port of Naples. One dispatch placed the Americans only two and one-half miles from the outer border. Another Cairo report said the FifUi army was rapidly Naples from both the south and the sontbeast, and in military terms, means actual penetration.

ON INTO American occupation of the historic city of Pompeii was announced, with the revelation that allied bombing attacks had left new ruins within the modern section of that ancient community burled by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. And on the eastern Italian coast, on the Adriatic. British Eighth army had driven 22 miles north of Foggia to Manfredonia. The American Fifth army took the road Junction of San Severino Roth. NEXT MAJOR in his retreat, Kesselring was battling for time to prepare defenses to the north.

In stiff rear- gnard action he was trying to obtain both the maximum delay to allied advance, and at the same time conserve German manpower. And all of the time he had to keep his eyes upon the advance of General Montgomery to guard the threat of encirclement by the British Eighth army as Montgomery swung his troops to the north. There was every indication the next major flglitlag would occur at the line of the Volturna river, 30 miles to the north of Naples. But It was only a temporary defense at the best. The Germans are confronted with continued withdrawal until they reach the fortified Po river line.

$VEATHER southern Italy high winds and heavy rains had given way to warm, clear skies, and the American and British air forces were out In force. Combined squadrons a 25-inlle radios around Naples without encountering (ConUauod on Pago Two) The German-controlled radio said this moment the British fleet is bombarding I Simultaneously, the Cairo radio declared that Fifth army forces were swiftly investing the burn-, ing, dynamite-wrecked port. Hcrrbor Wrockad. i The Germans said harbor installations at Naples had been destroyed and that severe measures were taken against communist riots which are flaring Allied warplanes bombed nazi truck columns northeast of the city another indication that German evacuation of the big port was in progress. A Cairo broadcast said Lt.

Gen. Mark W. victorious forces were driving into the city of 925,000 from the south and soutneast. A bulletin fro.m Gen. Dwight D.

headquarters said the American Fifth army, ad- vanc nq rapidly on captured the ancient city of Pompei. at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius, and also seized Mercato San Severino, 10 MU From NoqplM. Pompei lies 10 miles south of Naples. Mercato San Severino is about 22 miles southeast of Naples and eight miles beyond Nocera, whose capture was announced yesterday.

The daily war bulletin, chronicling events of yesterday, made no mention of allied troops actually investing Naples, as reported by the Cairo radio. It wa.s reasonable to assume, however, that they had at least reached the outskirts cf the city, once second greatest port. enemy continues to cover his withdrawal by extensive it was announced. 8th Gains 20 Milss. Gen.

command said the British Eighth army, driving up the Adriatic coast on the opposite side of the Italian peninsula, continued to make satisfactory progress and reached the seaside town of Manfredonia after a 20-mile advance. German fury over reverses in the field 'was reflected in a broadcast by the nazi-controlled Italian radio, which declared the nazis would take reprisals against the people of Naples if they persisted in in the way in the fight against the Frontline dispatches quoted Italian refugees as saying the Germans were already putting their threats into action, turning Naples into a city of horror by burning and pillaging and shooting civilians right and left. On Fronto. Other events at-a-glance: Air combers pound big German iroQ center Bochum, other nail war foundries in Ruhr. New cut through bit bitter Japanese resistance within 800 yards of FInschhafen; allied bombers exnlode huge cache of ammunition at Wewak.

Solomon 8. Warp'anas blast big JapHnese alrbase at Kahili, on Bou- gatnvlUe Island guerillas penetrate 100 miles into northeast Italy to Venice area, nail broadcast says; patriots force Germans to retreat at near Gorlzls. 30 mUea northeast of Trieate, and at LJbuiJana in Yugoalavia. WAR :.5 Billion Goal Met Moryenthaa Your Star Wmr SiumiiiAry 2 Serial Story 3 Editorials 4 Radio Programs 5 Book of the Month 6 I The Service 6 Merry-Go-Ronnd 7 Nebraska News Social News Sports It Comics 11 Markets 12 Waat Ads 13 General News 14 Mrs. Loalse Crawford mtm Hold At Onalia OMAHA, Sept.

30 (AP) Committal services were held Thursday fcr Mrs. Louise Crawford. 64, wife of Frank Crawford, former Omaha attorney and early- day cfMich at the University of Nebraska. Mrs. Crawford died Sept.

24 in New York (Jjty, where the Crawfords had been living since the beginning of the war. The Crawfords left Omaha 20 years ago to live in France. EVANSVILLE, Sept. of the Treasury Morgenthau announced here today the third war loan drive goal of $15,000,000,000 had been met. The secretary, who came here to participate in the launching of an invasion barge at the Evansville shipyards, made the announcement at the launching ceremonies.

hour ago 1 had word from the treasury in Washington that at 11 this morning we met and pas.sed our national goal of Morgenthau said. still have two days to happens tomorrow and Saturday will measure for us the patriotism of the American people and. more than that, will measure for us the understanding of the principles involved In this the secretary said. know now why we are fighting. Cox Quits As Head Of Group Probing FCC Cloud I mbuo WASHINGTON, Sept.

30 Cox (D-Ga), who has been engaged in a bitter feud with members of the Federal Communications commission in his capacity as head of a special committee to investigate FCC, today resigned the chairmanship of the committee. Cox announced his resignation to the house after conferring with Speaker Rayburn. His resignation had been demanded in a petition filed on May 13 with Rayburn by Clifford Durr, a member of the FCC, who charged that Cox was unfitted to conduct the investigation because of a connection with an Albany, radio station which had business pending before the commission. Attacks Utterly Baselew Cox told the house todsy that utterly baseteu perionel mttxcks me heve beclouded the reel Issue of whether the federal communtcettons commlMion been fullty or not lutlty of the of with which It hae been charged and which thta was directed by the house to Investlfate. XXX The house and the country are deeply concerned to ascertain the facta about the FCC without prejudice, and free of personal The house ordered the FCC Inveatlge- ttnn last January after Cox had attacked the agency on the floor as nastiest nest of rats to be found in this Members of tho house on both the republican and democratic sides of the aisles stood and applauded after Cox had finished hts brief statement.

WEATHER Lincoln: intermittent rain tonight; little change in temperature tonight and Friday forenoon. Nebraska: Rain in extreme east portion tonight; cooler in northwest with little change in temperature in south and east portions tonight; cooler in west, little chnnge in half Friday forenoon. (Lincoln Temperatures) 3:30 p. m. Wed Si 3:30 p.

4:30 p. 5:30 p. p. 96 7:30 p. p.

0:30 p. 83 :0 30 p. 11:30 p. m. 12:30 a.

m. Thur 1:30 a. 3:30 a. 3 30 a. 4:30 a.

.............81 5:30 a. 8:30 a. ..........61 7:30 a. 8:30 a. 0:30 a.

10:30 a. m. 84 11:30 a. 13:30 a. 110 p.

3:30 p. Highest temperature a year ago today, 00: lowest. 55. Sun rises, 7:23 a. sets 7:11 p.

m. Moon rises, 8:31 a. sets, 8:14 p. m. Prweipllatlon to a.

,01 ia. Jem. 1. 1043. 11.23.

fca. 1 to 30. 1342, 8t.l8. Nonaal scbm FroclFitallMi for BopL. 147 lo.

FfoekoHattoii Bopt. IML to. NooMd ior Sopto 24t tab. Tame Crow Brings $2,000 At Cairo War Bond Auction CAIRO, Sept. has a tame crow, which is a neighborhood pet.

Last night, at a war bond auction, the crow brought $2,000. It was sold first to Glen Swan, Hall county supervisor for $1,000 and then sold over again to Turner, elevator man for another $1,000. Lloyd Kellv Grand Island attorney, was ecutioneer. Last Stmmpm Im Bmtion Boek 2 ValM Oct. 1 Ta IVov.

29 OPA AnHomeefl WASHINGTON, Sept. the usual 20-day overlap period for use of old and new processed food stamps, office of price administration announced today that the last stamps of ration book and be valid from Oct. 1 through Nov. 20, Blue stamps and expire Oct. 20, The next series of stamps fop processed foods will be in ration book 4, which will be distributed through a school house regista's- tion the last 10 days of October,.