Clovis News-Journal from Clovis, New Mexico • Page 1

Have You Filed Your 1943 Income Tax Return? NEW MEXICO'S ORIATI6T NEW8PAPIH Make Your Plans Nbw To Conf ribtue To The Red Cross. VOL, 205 "CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO, WEDNESDAY, MAR.OH 10, 1043 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIDE WORLD SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENT! RUSSIANS FALL BACK OVER NEWLY-WON GROUND HUGE PRAIRIE FIRE SWEEPS THROUGH RANCH IEGIONS NEAR BUCHANAN; UNDER CONTROL Captain Virgil Lusk Killed In Collision of Planes Fight Blaze For Nine Hours Over 18 Mile Front A prairie fire, originating In blazing wool inoks thrown a truck, swept through ranch regions! southeast ot Vaughn Into yester-j (dny, endangering property nnrl i (livestock. Tho fire. Piling nt high spcwl I in soutlmrHt wind, trnveised nn area 18 miles wide and 30 miles in I length. Fire fighters from ranches and' 1 nearby towns joined in the battle i ragainst Ihe flames which for spread rapidly toward the Peeps river aica.

Under ('ontrol At 11 o'clock night loports from (he region stated the fire was' I brought under control four mtios south of Buchanan, in tlu- region I of l.he> Ramon ranch house. Gordon Lucas, shei iff of I'Baca county, reported from Kumner that the fife traversed the lYoncbes of Adrian Turner, Ramon Elbou Overtoil, and a nor-; I I of the ranch of Bill Burnett. 1 Planned Aid When news of the fire reached' 'the News-Journal at 7 o'clock Insi preparations were started to aid from 'here. U. Col.

Cart D. Love, of Camp, C. Reid volunteered all the! men needed, and the Santa Fe) railway offered to transport the I men to the fire region if additional 1 aid was needed. i fire furled' threw burn-j ing wool sneKiS from his kahd grass adjacent to. iVotighn-UoswHl 15 miles; of Vaughn, after Sheriff livestock iir mpplmjj to the path of (he fire was twin Komnnjl armor, Tirnprrtv' UM harassmfi and lieht -s UIP SoldlorH frotiV tee at Ft.

Sum.w?r. along with 1 aJiitinmeenu'iit wud manv civilians went to the firei Dpmlvely rrpulwd IHPI region lo aid. Members of thc Clo-l when he- 50 of his tanks' via Mounted Patrol stood by until in six otlfinptH thrnftte Into near midnight to escort heip to the eighth army positions from his fix- In the event thc Wuzo could, wt Rommel lost (wo Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Has Opposition WASHINGTON, Marc'v 10 A compromise pay-ns-you-go in-! come Inx proposal won ma- I 1 1 ii 1 I I. i'l t- i I lit I 1M vt jority fnvot In tho house ways nncl I nir medul alld six means commiltee was assailed b- uslers SAN March Capt, Virgil Lusk of Santa Itosn, N. is victim of a mid-air collision of two P-38 interceptor planes over San Diego The 26-year-old' s6n of New Mexico's si alt- school superintendent, Mrs.

Georgia Lusk, hsid attained the rank of ace in combat duty over northern Africa. In two and a kalf. mont.hs, he shot down five enemy planes and was credited with probably destroying six more. For his action, decorated eight distinguished fly- An alert American boldier, Tommy-gun on lap, guards these Jap airmen and sailors shown heads bowed as (hey were flown from Guadalcanal lo USA headquarters (he South Pacific in nn US transport plane. Japs had been raptured by natives on the Island in the Solomon group, transported to Guadalcanal by plane and boat.

Photo passed by army cpnsior. (NEA Telephoto) British Eighth Army Jabs At Mareth Line Defenses hard-pressed champions of the Ruml skip-a-year plan today ns a buidewonif "doubling up" proposition. The committee abandoned nil long-considered current payment plans, deciding against a baling'any taxes, and indicated approval for continuing thf present tax system i with some modifications Including 20-per cent withholding- levy against taxable portions of wages and salaries. Under the compromise plan, taxpayer could! 1, Continue paying in one yer-r on taxes on the previous I year's income, or y. Pay oif 'he last in full and on a current hen por.s nrougii Then last month, he was made captain and given a furlough taking, up duty with the nir forces in San Francisco.

On Feb. 13, he arrived in Albuquerque, N. for a re-union-with his mother nncl with his bride of about a year, the former Virginia Fiippcn cf Lag'una Beach, Calif. "I'm going to take it easy," he said then. "And, we're going to celebrate our wedding anniversary belated- ly," added.

his happy wife who taken leave from an aircraft welders job to be with him. Yesterday, Capt. Lusk flew his interceptor over San Diego Bar--. There was a collision. The army reported Lusk's ship and another flown by Capt.

Mark Drop Back 100 Miles in Region of Kharkov By EDDYGILMORE MOSCOW, March 10 (AP) Forced to fail back for about TOO miles over newly-won ground south of Kharkov and in the Donets basin, the Red army today was fighting its bitterest defensive battles since the beginning of its series of winter offensives last November, Soviet dispatches claimed, however, that the heavy German rush was being held after the surrender of eight key despite the fact that the enemy had superio.r numbers in the area and was attacking violently. In at least one sector of Kharkov it was said the Ger- mens had been forcecj KILLED Captain Vngil Lusk (above) ot Santa Fe, was yesterday in a collision of airplanes at San Diego, Calif. J. Mourne apparently locked wings IMS be- not be Knockout DKNVKU, helped soldier climb out of a 1-i-foot Coal hole. "Where's she po7" demanded the soldier, F'vt.

Louis Ilen- rkjucz of Camp Carson, Colo. "Who?" asked MIC patrolmen. "That cut little number in the green hat. She wniled at me." Accepted For Army Specialist Corps WCIF more of his nrmored machines in, the latest clashes with Allied pa-i trote, the communique said, "We knew won the first 1 round and thf enemv is, showing i willingness to come up for lound DffQIlla Vw ITIl two," an Allied military source of Clovls i commented today. We- know he- has lost more or-' with what he tho withhold" ij; levy ncmt: appiu-fi UK cras hed lo his tax bill Mr i-he year in whicn Capt Mourne, also an overseas collections are veteran, parachuted safely.

He re- Tin- committjo probably will ee VOf i bnly minor injuries, and vote on thc c-n, roml.se andccl on nn airfield. Capt. Lusk transfenin; thc sizzling pay-as- came down in the bay. His body you-go to the house flopi, was recovered, where supporters of the plan orig-1 Both i an es'burned inaled by Beardsley Ruml, New; Lusk was a graduate of York banker, have promised a re-j Sanln Fo gh school'and Wie ncued battle for abatement of a' ew Mexico Military Institute. He full tax year to facilitate transfer a on( i 0 the U.

S. naval academy. He trained for the air forces at Luke Field, and March and lo a current payment basis. Chairman Doughton (D-NO 1VfUi brought forward thc new "no, am Fields, California, abatement" proposal, under which Before going to northern Africa the 20 per cent withholding levy ftsl November, he spent several would become effective July i. mon in England.

I Tho lew woulrl not be an addi-; wns orn a Lovinglon, N. M. tionul tax but would provide i addition to his mother and means of weekly, semi-monthly orj (d ow joave two brothers, deductions from wanes, Jn armeil "forces. Dolph Lusk 1ft and salaries to be applied against j-j rs ijcu'tenant of cavalry and actual taxes computed by slatutpr.Vj Eugeiie Lusk Is a bombardier ca- 1 rates and exemptions. dct, Proponents of the compromise; An lu 0 Charles Witt, lives in said it would provide: ganta Fe, 1.

All persons with taxable in- TRAIN-TRUCK CTIASH KLT.I^ FOUR NTSAJt KL I'ASO TODAV EL PASO, March 10 Bmmett At. Stephens has been accepted for the Army I specialism corps at the dtstrict n- afford." Utng station in Santa Fc, ke Buck, local recruiter, said morning. Stephens, who hns I been in the Army before, wiil stationed at Camp Clalborno, Ln. Force in China I come in 1942 would file their i turns and pay one-fourth of their, i 1942 obligations on March 15 and another on June 15, as us-J ual men wore killed at 1 a. m.

today, I Persons having taxable Income I when the El Paso bound Texas I i In 19-K! but not in 19-12 would ho and Pacific freight train hit I put on a current payment u.u,ii, on' truck which they were nclmg. 1 through the 20 per The truck had run off the road I withholding levy and some- systpni, at a crossing and had stalled on of periodic collections against in- the trucks 10 miles; from here. The come other than wages and salar-idead, all afrm employes, are: Ali es I bert Lara, 49; Jesus Neva, 45; Kn-' Other taxpayers would be pul'rtque Arias, 63; and Apolonio Gon- SEK N'O. 3 What Congress Is Doing (By The Press) on farm deferment proposals. Foreign relations committee con- jtinues study of lend-leaiO bill.

Special defense hears General Knudsen on aircraft pro- jduction. vote on Jcnd- Plwise continunoce. Naval commiltee calls Secretary for views on absenteeism. DEAR We've been writing you letters, calling you, and ap. ppaling to your friends to get you to reni oedr rooms in housing emergency, unc) your has boon wonderful.

Tho only thing, just as we got ft lot of new people prpperly housed and happy, when wo ger another group atvl we 'haycj to btart nil ov0r We lioubod jo( of 6 oJ" wives, then wo- found for a now group of yestottfay fqr jot of plumbers, and today wp have now Mwiv tho soldlcru here with Uie auxl finrii roonns jpp their they eonje to tiliem. TrtW is A number of wivos will PP to VJsU (i) flbput UWIPP weoksf, only the rooms, for faw weeks' to ikdlS on the 350-mile Tun-, (C The Associated isiati front activity was hfrht, und Creation of a full-fledged S. fvon inoM of airmen force command in China, tul- forcorl by bad wcat.her to take a filling a hope long cherished by the iluy off. Chinese, wns officially announced Allied "rxtrenieh today arid some quarters declared active" in nnrl hern Tunisia he-re'i' marked the 'beginning of a new Brillah first army is phase In thc war against Japan, particularly )n the Sodjenono Military observers said the an- tho communique aid. The Ger-J nounccment clearly indicated a six- maiib httlo activity there, able expansion of American aii In tho u-nlral sector tho French power in the China' theater and completed thfir of.

possibly heralded now bombing at-. WASHINGTON March 10 and our rmwrmls-j tacks on Japan. Congressional furor over military sanco jmrtk-, toward Gufsu, 50 nero oforCi china has had tho, expansion, defemient of farm miles to i northoast on part the 10th U. i workers and a civilian labor dratt pih Uri(ler (hc new sclu tho newly I move tou ml aUve Furore Over Military May Restrict Size of Reduction in Hog Prices Coming WASHINGTON, March 10 Tho government was reported today to be preparing to force a reduction in live hog prices and to allow a slight increase in corn prices in an effort to pry loose the feed grain needed by livestock producers. Authoritative sources' that can not be quoted said Economic Stabilization Divector.Jtirnes F.

Byrnes and Price Administrator Prcntisa Brown had decided to impose ceilings on hogs at around $14.150 per hundred pounds, Chicago basis, or about $1.50 below recent top prices and to increase corn celling prices from $1 to $1.08 a bushel, Chicago basis, The proposed increase in corn ceilings had the approval of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, but not the hog Thc prospective dual corn-hoy price coiling action was advanced by Byrnes and Brown as' a method ot' unfreezing supplies of corn being held on farms and in commercial markets for higher prices. Expansion Army Subway Drama NEW YORK, UPi --A tall woman stood on a subway platform near a news stand waiting for a train. The news agent, dusting his wares, suddenly stopped and asked: "Say, aren't you Mrs, Roosevelt?" "Yes, I am," was tihc reply. "How do you do?" The train came in, the frsl lady got aboard and the news agent went on dusting. COMPROMISE INCOME TAX BILL OKAYED By FRANCIS M.

LE MAY WASHINGTON, March 10 The'house- ways and mean? committee today appi'uvod. a comprom- 'tax collection plait-im- to retreat. On the central front, however, the Red army conlintietl p'tish I we; ward from Gzhatsk, JOO miles west of Moscow, and southward I and southwest ward from Rxhev I and got within striking distance of ihe tip of the German salient at Vyazma. Advance, Farther to the norlh Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's hard-hitting offensive pushed the Germans closer into their fortress of Starayn below Lake Ilmen by cap- tin ing Staro Ramushevo and Novo Rcniushcvo, only 15 miles from their objective. East of Vyazma they arrived at Temkino and Tumakovo, which are onlv about 12 or 15 miles from the German base.

The German high command, carrying out another of its withdrawals "according announced the evacuation of Bely, 60 miles southwest of Rzhev ami about the same distance northwest of 'Vyazma, The communictuo I claimed fresh advances in the Kharkov sector, posing a 20-per levy on taxable portions of all wages and salaries and ieaving to The 'Itufislan noon Communique sa'd today tho 'Red army continued to hai'ijc fiercely largo ttLT Cl UU Oft I tti i 1U VM 411 L-U individual the option of" re- mainmg a year 'behind In tax pay ments or "doubling-up" taxes in one year and going on a pay-as- you-go basis. No tax abatement is provided. The withholding Jcvy against pay ixed infantry south of Kharkov, where the, Germans have dilvfii a wedge lo the Donets river, hit; out, of tho Donets basin Ir one sector lo GerniHii destroyed, while in ttioihor i ii nuavi vwiii utiv. envelopes and salary checks would. 14 Qf lhe en( my amorert become effective July s( re knockpd out aml ai)nut The committee thus abandoned 50f) of wore j- 1 all long-debated current tax col-j saia lection proposals transferred, lh to the house floor the issue of back initial position.

The I 1 i LIH.44. IJiiLlMt LJWll. UWJiUllLIU- whether one tax year should be recorded bv the Londo-i now couned Tanks among ftivnted Hth. US. air force un- IOSSOH Two more, enemv tanks had der the command of been destroyed hincu I Chennault will replace the when 50 of his machines China Air Tahk Force.

when 50 of his found abandoned. On the far Pacific fighting fronts Tho weather abruptly restricted American-built Liberator bombers tho activity in the air, the com-, of the RAF attacked enemy posi- munique said, and only patrols! lions in Burma, were flown by the American and British air forces. No enemy planes, wore encountered. in central or northern the communique said, but thu Marolh lino fightofbomhers sector enomy cmtncd attacks on eighth army positions and were driven off. (The'HuHna high cprnnmnd said NO, 5 while Japan showed a resurgence of aerial strength in the New Guinea theater, Gen, Douglas MacArthur's.

head- restrictions on the size of the Army. As the controversy widened, a special White House commiltee ot top ranking Presidential consultants called a meeting to draft an Initial report on how men and women can be for war work. The committee, composed ry Hopkins, James F. Byrnes, Admiral William D. Leahy, Bernard Baru.cn.

and Justice Samuoi British Bombers Blast Munich in Night Attack to put all taxpayers on! a pay-as-you-go basis, as proposed Hinted at Reverses by Beardsley Ruml, New York Pol Approving the compromise plan Ilia- were 35 Democrats and one i 1n er DoVs Zsm. For dlyn LONDON, March 10 Brit- bombers and 31 lighters attacked the Allied mounUUn outpost at Wau in New Guinea yestW' day, but eaxis.ed only light Air Medal For Portales Man Reported Missing in Action WASHINGTON, JVJiu'ch JO reeded lo itrufo for ayer air medal has been awarded to minutt3s- .1 Lieut, Leo M. Enilnger, son "Following this actjp.n.j Ujjs yminger of Forties, and erevv has reported missing In Iho hohiy base qyer ft TQQ-mjle Soyth. pacifip, the War cjepurtmt-'nt "On September 9, vvlUl-? other search inlssjpfl 'WeML inget and other of crow encoMntert(4 quarters said a formation of 26 Sosonmnn, meet amid persistent reports that the whole civilftn war organization may be pvorhauled, Members of Mac opposed to increasing the ces to 10,800,000 this yew ground it would absorb, needed, farm and IncJustriftl n-anpower, disclosed plans to submit solution the ApprpprlaUoiw Committee to, refuse fujwls for: Army Tho measure, authorized by cjj.utlon ana Thomas cwtting HIP Army's size of by ap assertlpn by SecrpUjry of ttist fees of Army are trying ayaW Ifli an4 relatively miwu- aln's biggest bombers took to the air night to blast Munich, cradle of the Nazi party and seat i of. important, war industries, in the 12th flAF assault upon the contln- ent in 14 ni'ghts, it was announced today, "Last night aircraft of the I er command made ft heavy attack on industrial objectives at.

Mu- njch," a British air ministry com- munUiue i jiircraft bpmbed targets Injured in Crash Near Springer SPRINGER, Ml Owen, 53, of Raton, was in a hospital here today with critical injuries suffered whoa his left highway 85 at a curve one mile north of Springer last night. Owen's car was a twisted mass of wreckage and persons viewing' the scene of the wreck said the car apparently plowed through thu roadside diteh, hurdled a fence, cleared drainage ditch, elimbed a railroad embankment and linally was stopped by a telegraph pole, Hospital attaches sajd Owen suffered a compound fracture of tho ankle, broken ribs, lacerations and possibly internal Injuries, lion. a slate- has labored and brought forth a mouse," and "It is obvious that the house will have to take the matter into Its own hands if taxpayers are to be made current." WOUNDED WASHINGTON, March 10 Four New Mexico soldiers were listed by the war department today In a report on action in Alaskan, Asiatic, European, North Af- rlpan, South and Southwest Pacitic areas. Wounded were three New Mexicans out of list of 124, Only fatality fom New Mexico among 60 killed in action was Pfc, Antonio Caldoron, son of Mrs. Dolores Caldoron of Hurley, who lost his life in the Southwest pacific, Wounded were Tech.

Sgt, Noiv man Hgnnig, son of Mrs. SEJS NO, U-4'AOIS 8 of strong German soul Invest of Voroshilovgrad, 'is 80 SETC NO. he Puture of Russia Is A World tion. By PEWtTfl 1 MACKJ3N21B Admiral William Standley, our Ambassador to Hussitt, seems to a keg of strong ha, stated Moscow he d.iflft'j; thlnH the Russian were pejng told Hie com- stpry Atnericjjn aid to yieir "there's no ques- S.Qviet^ trying to abroad, as as aj, ihflt they are war ajone," ftft attdud ppienpy, sanje pyfii (ji was al, yi.ce 'Thi ft io what rolq the Soviet Union is like. ly to play aftpr the war, other wor4s, they're ing whether the United will remain united, or circumstances will Decree that mighty Russia shalj operate as a lone wolf.

That was one of of It involving pne rthe mom Allies, butt I haven't te, report it e4. rather the dominant -power of most Hkejy qf Asia as wplj Out of tho of, 'how Allied wnHy would, tp adapt itself to this new i Wbftt top Hie- John Bum, erstwhile ppUpfman and Pflcle What woylA bf Three Colonels Among Prisoners On Formosa March 10 army Colonels a.nd a petty officer in' the navy''from ico are among the prisoners of held by the Japanese at Formosa, the department ruounced tpday. 'j The colonels, iiilsppsi'tlpn'' had been reported, private notices B'; co M. PeoH boj-hijfc Ohairlea, th.e-air 5 Coi,.