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vfiMmmi-Wi ini'fft'ritr-rt rTiiil PAGE TWELVE THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Foremost Newspaper of The Two Carolines- MONDAY MAY 10 1943 SECTION ONE tntViku TAX PLAN POWDER KEG SPUTTERS Nazis Frantically' Rushing Men South SPECIALIZING ON BURROUGHS Best Service Money Can ADDING MACHINE SERVICE EXCHANGE 1305 Jefferson Ave Phone 6513 Chambers 21 Years Experience TOP TERRORIST DIES IN POLAND Possibility Seen of Senate-House Agreement On Modified Bill to Forestall Veto i Fear of Immediate Invasion Prompts Hitler to Make Desperate Effort to Bolster Bulgarian Defenses Germans At Home Showing Signs of Defeatism BT FRANK ANKARA May (Delayed) German troops are being moved southward through Hungary at a rate comparable to that which preceded the Axis attack on Greece and Yugoslavia travelers arriving in Turkey from Europe reported today (Dispatches reaching Stockholm from Berlin Sunday said Germany was sending modern weapons to bolster Bulgarian defenses as the threat of a Balkan invasion mounted with Allied victories in North Africa ther emphasized In a speech May the state of preparedness when he declared that a neutral the same as a belligerent arm to the teeth and be prepared LONDON May Gen Wil helm Kruger Chief of the Gestapo in Poland and principal organizer of the German terror campaign against the Poles was shot fatally in Krakow May 2 official Polish circles reported today Accounts reaching Polish officials through underground channels said three men dressed in German uniforms waited at night for this of in front of his house and shot him when he emerged from his carriage The assailants were said to have escaped Kruger was hit by many sub-machine gun bullets but he lived through Wednesday night these reports said Polish circles who may not be quoted by name said Kruger was second in command to Governor-General Hans Frank and was the man who devised and directed the mass arrests deportations and executions without trials It's For The We Have REASONABLE PRICES PROMPT DELIVERIES Pound 8t Moore Co 213 Tryon St Phone Go A Keep 'em Flying RECAPPING WON'T WAIT STIRRINGS OF REVOLT against the Nazis are reported from abroad with increasing frequency At widely separated points on the powder keg of the continent resistance against the Germans is breaking out At Toulouse France a bomb exploded during a public meeting Machine guns were used to quell antiNazi violence in Holland In Norway German occupation troops suppressed antiNazi demonstrations Jews in Poland barricaded their homes in ghetto and fought with smuggled arms in a pitched battle that has raged for more than two weeks In Sofia Bulgaria the situation was reported acute Yugoslav guerrilla continued to fight the Nazis German planes dropped leaflets over Greece appealing to underground fighters to surrender BY JACK BELL WASHINGTON May UP) Administration forces conceding likely Senate passage of a modified Kuml plan looked today to a compromise with the anti-Ruml House to avoid a possible presidential veto of new revenue legislation Chief exponent of such a com promise is Chairman George of the Senate finance committee If the Senate approves the measure voted out Saturday by the finance com mittee over opposition the Georgia Democrat observed the paramount question of how much tax is tobe abated to get citizens on a current basis will be "wide open" when Senate and House con' ferees meet George said he personally favors 75 per cent of one year's liability for all taxpayers adding the remainder to their tax payments over two years This in effect would increase everybody1! taxes about 12 1-2 per cent a year for the next two years while they were getting on a current basis boosting immediate Treasury reve nue that much MIGHT FORESTALL George said this might forestall the necessity of increasing income rates this year in an effort to ob tain at least a part of the $16000 000000 additional revenue which President Roosevelt has said must be raised President Roosevelt has express ed fear the Ruml plan would cost the Treasury badly-needed revenue George would not comment on the possibility of a Presidential veto for any measure which approximates the Ruml plan to skip a tax but said: such a bill is passed and becomes lav it is almost certain to be followed by a demand for an increase in taxes to make up the amount that would be through abatement" CURRENT BASIS The Senate committee bill would put about 97 per cent of all taxpayers on a current basis immediately providing approximately 100 per cent abatement The bill approved by the House after its rejection of a modified Ruml plan provides abatement for all those in the first surtax about 90 per cent of taxpayers If the Senate approves the committee bill George explained the Senate-House conferees will be empowered to agree on any plan ranging from the House measure to the If customary seniority procedure is followed finance members who opposed adoption of the Ruml-Carlson bill by the committee would be in the majority on the conference committee A similar situation is likely to arise in the House As adopted by the committee the Senate bill would excuse the lower of 1942 or 1943 tax liabilities putting all taxpayers on a current payment basis except an estimated 3 per cent with incomes These would have separate treatment under which the abated income would be compared with a normal income and they would be forced to add to their current liability the taxes on the excess to defend its position with tooth and ADDED POINT The collapse of the Axis in Tu nisia has given added point to the feverish preparations in Sweden It hag focussed the war back on the Continent of Europe and cleared the way for an Allied attack upon Hit in which Scandi havia conceivably might figure Swedish military commentators generally expressed surprise at the swiftness with which the final phase of the Afriran campaign was being concluded They described it as victory for superiority of fire At the Rosersbcrg infantry school near Stockholm infantrymen showed me a sample of firing power during a drill in which light medium and heavy mortars automatic weapons and the new Bofors a combined anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun blazed away The marksmanship of the Swedes was an eyeopener as they peppered targets concealed in the rolling boulder-strewn and wooded terrain on which Sweden is relying heavily in her defense plans FINISHED SOLDIER At the Rosersberg school husky recruits are turned into finished soldiers ip a time after which they are given six months of serv ice on the borders As though to drive home the reason for military service a copy of the declaration of independence of the United States hangs on the walls of Rosersberg castle the headquarters All men between the ages of 20 and 47 are liable for service After they have received basic training they frequently are called back for brief refresher courses with new weapons Thus Sweden's army is kept up to the minute The pir force also gave a demonstration of its marksmanship Dive-bombjng from a height of 15000 feet to smash an anti-aircraft battery Swedish pilots scored 60 per cent of hits on the target area They were rot of course facing ground fire But the air force generally is conceded to be the weakest point in defenses Half of its first line aviation consists of old-type American Republic fighters and Northrop dive-bombers Since the blockade made it impossible for Sweden to receive further planes from abroad she has been developing her own aircraft industry using both United States and German patent licenses Both the navy and air force are handicapped by a shortage of fuel but the resumption of safe conduct shipping la expected to ease the situation Naval forces are small Motor torpedoboats of which Sweden now has lg and others under construction are the backbone of defenses for the island dotted coast High Zones Mental Cases In Fighting (The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen said it also was reported the Bulgarians were heavily fortifying their Black Sea coast since a warning by German Lieut Gen Dittmar that the British Tenth army was massing on the island of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean) German authorities have ordered Rumanians to dig deep air raid shelters against the possibility of Allied raids on Bucharest and other Rumanian cities the travelers reported From other reliable sources came reports that the Italian government had ordered the evacuation of the civilian population of Rhodes Axis base in the Mediterranean and that the Italians were feverishly strengthening their defenses on the Dodecanese islands BERLIN SUFFERS Arriving travelers reported that 200000 residents of Berlin are homeless as a result of Allied air raids and government agencies are finding the greatest difficulty pro viding new lodgings for those who have been bombed out One traveler asserted the American and British air attacks had made massive and profound Impression" on Berliners Gestapo surveillance has failed to prevent residents of the Nazi capital from complaining that losing our businesses and our sons now we must lose our these sources reported The Gestapo was said to have made numerous arrests recently for defeatism (The Office of War Information at Washington said yesterday that air raids on Stettin and Manner -heim In northern and western Germany had necessitated special air attack precautions by the Germans (The OWI said the mayor of Set-tin announced April 20 that only-outer windows of bombed buildings could be replaced and warned that all building materials must be conserved If bombed houses were to be repaired The government agency cited an unspecified German newspaper as authority (Another German news account the OWI said reported that the mayor of Mannheim had ordered all citizens to nqake rooms available to out-of-town Workers brought in to help remove the debris of Allied bombings) Sweden Is Preparing or Any Eventuality BY EDWIN SHANKE STOCKHOLM May armed forces appear pgimed and ready for any eventuality as the war swirls around her borders During recent visits with the army navy and air force I found every man energetically and enthU' siastically concentrating on the job of being prepared At the bottom of defense plans is the recognition that she cannot depend on superiority of numbers but only on the highest possible quality in men and the tools of war Foreign Minister Christian Guen be of BY HOWARD BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor DETROIT May 9 Soldiers with mental troubles in this country are entering hospitals at the rate of 27 a thousand men a year and this rate is about 24 times higher than that of civilians in 1938 RUINED This tire worn down through the fabric driven too long haa been weakened beyond repair To recap it would be a waste of the tire would fail before many more milea of wear SAVED This cross-section shows how a new tread or recap was safely vulcanized to a tread that was thick enough Let our tire experts examine all 5 of your tires now before it's too late QUALITY RECAPP1NQ QUALITY REPAIRING NEW TIRES USED TIRES INFORMATION A BRING AU YOUR TIRE WORRIES TO US YOU MAT BE ELIGIBLE to feu? top "Gride I' tiro II rour rortiheeto ntitUe you to tho This figure showing the almost startling effects of war on the human mind was reported to the American Society for Research in Psychometric Problems here today by Col Roy Halloran of Washington He cited another impressive mental failure figure in the fact that these troubles are second only to battle wounds and malaria as a cause of hospitalizing our soldiers combat areas Col Halloran said that the present admission rate in the United Slates does not mean there is 24 times more neuropsychiatric disease in the army than civilian life civilian he explained with psychoneuroses psychopathic personalities epilepsy and even inconspicuous insanity can often get along perfectly well and need not be hospitalized lit the army however such individuals even though they are no sicker than they were in civilian life do not get along go on sick call and are admitted to The mental trouble admissions in continental United States are only VICTOR SHAW CO Sixth Street at College Phone 71 1 1 TIRE Parking Gas Oil Steam Cleaning and Battery Service Sir Charles Igglesden one of the most famous and popular men in Kent England has just completed his 61st year as editor of the Kentish Express which is believed to the longest record for the editor any paper Stores and restaurants in Denmark have been ordered to reduce the use of electricity 40 per cent because of the fuel The price may vary but not the Ho vis Memorial Ceremony! about 25 per cent of all aoldiers admissions but those who remain the hospitals for mental reasons are 5 4 per cent of aU who stay in The present home territory rate close to that of the first World war 10 to 14 months after the United States entered that war A 17 months in that conflict the rate was 44 men a thousand a year In this war our men started at a low rate of around 14 about the same as in World war I and the rise this time has been similar to 25 years ago The overseas mental problem status can be described only roughly Colonel Halloran said From 15 to 20 per cent of all casualties being returned to the United States are neuropsychiatric In certain unidentified theaters of war this figure has been as high as 40 per cent of all casualties In what he described without further identification as our large combat area five per cent of the hospital casualty admissions up to January were neuropsychiatric A happy contrast is the rate In noncombat overseas areas There the mental breakdown admissions have been at the rate of less than 10 a thousand men a year In this war rejection of men for mental causes has been more strict tnan in World war I Then it was about two per cent now it is seven to eight per cent of those exam-I ined meeting was held in collaboration with the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric association which begins a four-day annual meeting tomorrow WAKE FOREST FRATERNITY INITIATES NEW MEMBERS WAKE FOREST May The Wake Forest chapter of Pi Kappa Delta national honorary forensic fraternity initiated four new members for the year this week as follows: Martha Ann Allen of Garner Bob Smith of Wilmington Bill McGill of Fayetteville and Douglas Elam of Winston-Salem After the initiation the follow-ing officers were elected for the coming year: Allen president Smith vice president and Elam secretary The retiring officers I are Davis of Beaufort president Hope of Charlotte vice president Burnette Harvey of Erwin Tenn secretary PARKS STALLINGS WINS HIS COMMISSION CORPUS CHRISTI Texas May Parks Johnson Stallings son of Mr and Mrs Charles Thomas Stallings Statesville road Charlotte recently graduated from the Naval Air Training center Corpus Christi and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps reserve Lieutenant Stallings former student of Brevard 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