,I LABOR J C L J Two labor oonven ions b egan today: The automobil e orkers at Buffalo, and the AF ~r Lat Boston. R. J. Tho m as, President of the Motor Car ork.-s began t * ' o n with• vehement eulogy of President Roos . velt. Th:;~egates cheered as Tho M &I urged them to give a one hundred per cent support to Ci)J_~ the President and also to Vice President Wallace. D- asked the ,... . O AW Convention once more to go on record with a promise or no strikes until the war is over. This appeal had some point, because ~here is quite a movement within the union to cancel that "no strike" pledge • . WTwo wrongs never made a right" said the Automobile worker ■ President, and he pointed out that before the war he bad authorized more strikes than any other head ot the union, but none during the - war. President William Green opened the convention ot the ~ Federation or Labor at Boston. • devoted his speech mostly to J.. pattin g labor on the back, defending it against tua its critics. "Since Pearl Harbor 11 , he d eclare<l, "eighty thousand people had p e rished in the f a ctorie of the United States. On the other hand LABOR - 2 nly twenty h ~usand ~en ~.ave be en k illed in action s~nce Pearl Barbor. In a d1t1 n to tha, on t h e ome front seven a11 1 1on men and women have been injur ed 1n war production factories. Five different groups or delegates,,,_. filed protests against pera1tt1ng John L. Le•is and his Onited lline lork•s to come back into t ' e rold of t ~ ~ ~ e d v t a4d:Ml U'- W .. n TAXES The tax news this evening 1s breathtaking. Information released this mornin g gave us to beli e ve that the Treasuryts new program would call for thirty percent income levies. Actually, the prog c am ranges from a little moa than two percent on a net income or Six Hundred Dollars to Ninety-five percent on an income or One Million and over. or course, that'ts academic to most people. But the folks in the middle brackets are going to be bard hit. A sing le per son wt tlw1 with a net income of Six Thousand will pay two thousand if ad Secretary Morgenthau bas h1 s way. A married Thousand individual with a net income or Fifteen 1■■•11111 will give Uncle t>ix Hundred Sam Six fhouaandjand Seventeen Dollars or it. Aside from all that the excise tax which the Treasury asks is enormous. Some critics ~ a e - prohibitive,-~ .I\ point out that when the tax on spirits is raised from Six to ten dollars per gallon most people will stop buying and so the 8■■■+ government will not raiae the sum it anticipat e , . A woman buying a fur coat will pay as much as Twenty-five cents on a Dollar, also anybody purchasing a g ood suitcase orb ief - case. TAXES - 2 ~ r e a s u r y expresses hope that this program will . J- - _ J - ,,,,,.. s:-c. raise ten Billion Five Bund_r dl1xty Million. At thatAllor entha . u has lower~ his target from T elve Billion. But over and am above all these income taxes and luxury taxes, the Roosevelt governmen . t intends to double the social security taxes to bring in one Billion Two Hundred U1111on more. . ., . ADD T S On e r iu C ~ hat s • v ral legislators m rene ed tho · nd for a a s tax. Pr es i nt Roos vel ~ and th Treasury ar ea d s t a ainst that 1 a. They claim it will weigh too h vi l y on ople of low incom s. Con ressmen dispute this. Con ressman Knutson of Minnesota opposed the new bill offered by t e Treasury. Be dee la red that when Congress passed the "pay as you go" program early this year, the Administration bad agreed that there should be no increase of taxes for the follo ing year. Secret Knutson fook up the cud el 111th a vim. He maintained that the slqrocket taxes would not be necessary if the Administration cut out waste. He pointed out th: t Congress illla has appropriated ~ some v:us three hundred and thirty billion for ar effort. It ,. some or that could be cut out through Congress, he said, we would not need such a staggering tax program. '111&.S n iment in favor of the sales tax 1s growing among the law mak rs in Washinton. roUNDED Br i a bit o f oc oura , e m nt for the kinsfol or figbt1ng men overseas. I n the la . st o · rl d War a sol ier wounded on tbe attl field ha a fift e o to one chance afXXD to r · ecover. Today the cha.r ces are fortJ • • . nine to one. By m m,µs)l 1 modern .::So surgery and medicine have &dvanced in twenty-five years.we . learn A , Surgeon _ trom Rear Adm1 . ral Ros . s T. McIntyre, ~ - G e · neal ot tbe Rav,,-. MG, d..:. Ll_n, _ ~ e lls l=t in an article in the current American llagazine. ~ I\ ~ -t.,,.goes on to point out in the last war s ven percent or tb . e , en A. /\- J.~./l'J w ounded in action die ~ phis war we are losing only Just a lit • tle mon than two percent of our men wounded. or the compound fracture oases only ten p . ercent will be permanently di . sable . ~ ~ there will p n - ot b~amputations. = n• l'tAL! General llariC Clark's Fifth Army is pushing the O ermans 1 the irection of Ro , and Corsica is n w almos entirely in !,Hied handsJ Those tfie Invasion n There are only a few scattered groups of Germans left on that turbulent island and they are being moped up. The important thing is that the mixed allied forces marched this morning 1 . nto - Bastia, the last u:l remaining large base on Corsica. There were Frenchmen, Italians, American Rangers, and Moroccan sharpshooters • in the allied army in Corsica. Bastia lies directly opposite - the island ot Elba, 4lnd • is oDly a short distance trom the mainland. The happy part or all this is that it gives the Allies a tine convenient jumping otf place tor the attack upon northern I tal.y • Turning our eyes rw~ther south we learn that the ltitth Army forced the passage of the Calore River East or laples, where they expected the Germans to try to hold the line. They also captured a place called Montemiletto, ten llhl miles to the southeast or Benevento, which they took aa last Saturday. The taking or Montemiletto straightens out the line. ,,, I AL~ - 2 K an hi le Oen ral Mon t omery and pa r t of the British Eighth A:rm.y leapfrogged behind the German lines on the Adriatic side of Italy and landed in force at Termoli, forty-seven mi . le ~ northeast o Foggia. They occupied the town and DU held it in the teet.h of savage c · ounter-attacks by the Nazis. That landing at T , ermoli was a daring and br1111antl7 successful business. It w s an amphil:lous operation, curled out With the help or a British fleet and support . ed by , a . thick umbre1la mm or aircraft. S ar t b i l t . A l d . . oon ter an- , ing force bad seized ~ Tenol1, A the ad . vane• guard of the main body of the British A"'4J caught up with it and tan joined rorc,s. King Victor Baanuel is in Raples. At any rate, so we h•r tram a Swiss dispat · ch coming · by way of Isa Stockho : l.11 • ..,..c With the ICing ;A Crown P · r'inc e Humberto and Prim · e 111n1 ster Marshall Bado . gl1o. The King took up his quarters at the Royal Palace in Ra p les. Thro bout C 1 entral am Northern Italy the Nazis are turning oo the heat. They ha ,e forbidden any I tali.ans to listen in to any radio programs exc · ept thos · roa cas't by the u erman r .. I AL~ - author1t1 s or the pupp t overnm nt of Musscl1n1. Anybody aJ Jail. Anybody who tells anybody A h anything • whatsoever n about the .4,,. ~tr' Badoglio governm~n~ w:t]:1:- ai, be thrown "'" !he& prison. From the East end o1 th 1 err ne· the news 1s not so encouraging. It looks as though the Briti~~~driven ~ out of K o s , ~ island in the Dodecanese 1 off the coast ot Asia llinor, which the Royal Air Force seized two weeks ago. Berlin broadcasts the boast that the ermans have grabbed all important military installations on the island and tlBt the British have fled to the hills. A British cdmmunique trom Ca1:'o admits that A the Nazis landed in force alli have won important points. But Cairo insists tbat the British are still fighting back. levertheless, the Cairo communique is a virtual acknowledgement or the German claims. BAIJC ♦ IS The war in the Balkans begins to take on the appearance of a real, big-time battle. The Jugoslav Army is counter-attacking on the Adriatic Coast along a front extending one hundred and seventy miles rrom end to end. Allied warships recently landed large supplies or arms and food. In consequence the Serb patriots todaJ took by stora two towns in ■ ontenegro and one in eaatel'D Bosnia. The Bosnian town is the largest and most strongly fortified in that countrJ. lt is tttty miles north or Sarajevo. Tbe Ju101lavs took it atter sixty-three hours or fierce ttghting a1atut tbe German troops. A spokesman tor the Jugoslav goverment in London explained that the capture ot those two towns in ■ont,_~ A probably ■eans tm t the Genaan tro4ps have been wiped out. They w,e hemmed in between the ~r!:!:11.!,S 1n the mountains and a& the Jugoslav regulars along the coast. - - - That Army ot Liberation is n ow one hundred and eightJ ~~ thousand strong. Though they received supplies, they are askin& ,.. for more. -=,.,,,, The Baz1 High I ■■+■ Comand bas been obliged to send reinforcements to the region around Fium~tillery duels are being fought between the Jugoslav forces ••.,_ a,re threatening Trieste and the Germans. ./ ~ AIR AR The air war on Fortress Euro e was hamm . red home with a vengeance in the last twenty - four hour . The Royal Air Force last night executed its third ni ht ra1' on erm ny in succesaion,-- its turt r1rtJ. in a week. A large force of the gre ~ t four - engined f' British bombers paid a visit to Kassel . Several big airplane and locomotive facto ies are located there and tho big planes dropped a h•vy load of block - busters aad Dd incendiaries. tons fell upon Kassel. lili•••••l¥zree-41aeo'2ar1ss-ealk*•"•z-.,,a;tllllll1t1•~»•n~iii1.i,i,ll:;:~;,f!'J7t.1r1 eea ave.of were 111,iil eM"ni•j a:\ 1■e1Je n wl!,111 •• '•• •• tll&•lr &d:te.s; •~•, ftom the ettse':t lilsa,■ f•a■ ,11e 1-,lodMI oeuW lie 199D , " •• tar a a &::- ••• lnrna•ed all•• ••ar _ A ~ 7t(R.,:-. . "8tr'l&e,ai-:A!P ile'/t raiders fooled the German def enders. The Nazis were unable to make u p their minds where the bombers we r e going to strike. Anti-aircraft guns went into action in three AIR WAR - 2 different places, at Hanover and Cologne, &swell as at Kaaael. The German interceptors rushed to Hanover and Cologne tirat, and it was not until the British bombers had done their daaage that the German interceptors put 1D an appearance. What tooled the Germans was the squadrons or llosquitos over Hanover and other targets 1D the Rhineland. ill this was followed i. up today 1n a great daylight raid by a torce ot Uncle Sam's Flying Fortresses. •111::t:a■~ second 1D three days. T h ~ ~ air forte went to P'l'llllkfort~• · "obi Kain. The Royal Air Force had already visited Frankfort th1rty-a1x times before, but tbl s waa the first time the Amerlcan1 " " ., ... . . , there. Tbe Fortresses met with tough opposition tr011 Geraan tighter planes) -l,ut theJ had good weather and did a . _ lot ot damage. The swarms of German interceptors fought th• not only while they were over Franktort, but on the way home. When the Forts were over Belgium they w\?re ~oined by their om fighter protectors. RUSSli for The reasonr-; th e lul l in th e news from Russia is that the Germans are receiving the support of an important helper, General Rain. wet: weathcs a1ut 1111d ba•e ■ J.awed up ,i.e ftcealM steadily drawing nearer . . their next goal, the line tr011 Ooael to Yitebsk. Military observers descri"• llogilev aa the ~ turntable ot tbe Bazi 11.ne-ot•detense in White Russia. ' - • ,Z!'.~south tbe nees h more ch•l'f. The lull . ' "-' are 8'11d ently moving out of the l:uban Peninsula, th~ la st too tbold • ~ • in the s.aucasus. ~ ~ l g n s 1111111 thar are alr•dl' retreating a across the Straits ot l:erch into the Crimea. ~ n the central front tbere are 1Dd1cat1ons that Hitler's Generals are a ■ tt ■ getting ready for a large-scale withdrawal to the borders or Litlmania and Latvia. CHI,NA There is ne w s from China toni g ht which is not too good. The Japanese have advanced on three s e ctors, in three different provinces. The Chinese ~esist e d as fiercely as the7 could, but the Japs drove th• back. The Nipponese Sigh CoamaDd sent a lot of reintorcements to the• area around the lower reaches of the !angtze River. For six years Chinese Guerrilla ' troops have been barraaaing the Japs there, and ertdent17 the invaders are making a strong effort to surround th• · and wipe . them out. The Chinese b lost p important tom, Kwangteh. That 1• a ke7 railroad center ninet7-six IIDJI miles to the soutbeaat ot Banking. The battle is raging along a tront one hundred and titty miles long, all the way from the western shore of Lake Tai in the southern part ot Kiangsu Provtnce to the smthern outskirts or Bangchow. There was mm desperate street fighting at Kwangteh, but the Japanese drove the Chinese out. The fllnders are · .ow driving w e st at a rapid pace. They are also attacking a place called Hainteng only thirty miles to the southwest of Hangchow. CBIIA - 2 The Chinese have plenty of manpower there, but their air support is not so good. Dia American air bases in China are too tar any to be within effective fighting range ot that battleground. PACIFIC Tonight we have an interesting explanation of the recent fighting on l e, OuJ.nea. The Allied forces at Lae and Finschatfen .5o were thre a tened by a Japan se column at their rear • .I\ Geneal MacArthur •11 •a ordered an Austt'alian force carried by transport plane tllto Kaiapit, forty mil e s m;tlrqt north w est or Lae. settled the threat trom the Japanese column and resulted in tbe capture or Finscba f fen.7f'Ttiif was the third important Yictor, 1'l!lllt ~ the Americans and Aiatralian~ won ~ lew Guinea in ,,., •• three ween, a titting clillax to a campaign that bad lasted ninety-three daJa./,J.,,l I It knocked out an Army of sixty or seventy thousand .Japaneae 7f' _..c ~ troops. TbSC Australian column Ill composed ot veterans 1111& troa ,.,J ~ /. El i l a m e i n ~ now fi g hting its ••1 north through the valleJ ~ -- ot llarkbaa River~ A difficult territoey. !la• A'INti••M•• •• Brigadier General WillougbJ, Cbiet of Intelligence •1xl••■■t tor General MacArthur, aa1s that the Allies are now established in a magnific mt posi tJon, one that will unt:lllately mean tb"-1:; r,::\:2;, ~ Japanese bases on the - north coast of Mew Guineaj lftese rlY incl~andang and Wewak. PACIFIC - 2 -n;;x-- ~ G e neral Wil l oug h by added a w a rning!-.1\There is a grave shortage of manpower in that part of th e Paci;l,,'~tnaraJ. 11acArthu}I.~ ~ : : : : ; _ ~ in I e r, Guinea to the point ot ~-~ exhaustioni~/r theyAhave mare men the"- they can do more. The advance or tbiS. Auatralian column up the valley /\ a.c •• ,6ic. ot the llarkbam River may make it necessary to~ 11 , to travel ~ throug~country that still is ; u:, unexplored. All ot which will a d ~ ~ l. ~ditticulties and hardslips,