The Daily News Leader du lieu suivant : Staunton, Virginia • 1

vening Leader HE THE WEATHEK Cloudy, preceded by rain or snow, and colder tonight; Tuesday, cloudy with snow flurries. The PUBLIC it Interest FIRST VOLUME ISO. 73. NO. 36.

HEMBEB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STAUNTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1911 Mr.MIIER Or THE AID1T RI SEAO Or 1'IKCl LATIUNB PRICE TWO CENTS. mm to BE VISITED BY WILLKIE Discord in the Lend-Lease Hearing Oema Under Siege Of British Army Of Nile M'rr A vJA faftl SOVIET QfESTIONS ITALY'S SIRVIVAL Marshal Graziani May Make "Lat Stand''' at Gateway to Mediterranean Seaeoast Plateau; Rome Says Losses Inflicted on Enemy Armored Vehicles. FIVE RURAL MEN CALLED FOR FEB. 7 GUEST OF PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL AT LUNCHEON, WHEN HE DELIVERED NOTE FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; ANNOUNCEMENT OF VISIT TO IRELAND COMES AS SURPRISE. ljxJt if ft SEVENTH LONDON ENJOYS STRAIGHT NO MOSCOW, Jan.

27 Red Star, Russian army newspaper, said last night it is no longer a question of the losses suffered by Italian troops in Libya "but of the possibility of their further resistance at all." Red Star reported nearly half of the Italian troops in Libya have been put out of action by the British. It added that the position of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, Italian commander in Libya, "is critical." ADJUTM1S DESIGNATI RICHMOND, Jan. (IP) Captain James C. Anthony, commandant of the John Marshall high school cadet corps and a graduate of Virginia. Military institute, was appointed adjutant of the Virginia protective force today, with the rank of major.

Party lines were drawn more clearly in the House Foreign Affairs Committee as the result of the cancellation by Chairman Sol Bloom of New York of invitations issued by Republican Congressman Hamilton Pish to heads of the army, navy and air force to testify at the lend-lease hearing. The Republicans are shown after refusing to convene in executive session. Left to right: Representatives Karl E. Mundt, Hamilton Fish, Edith N. Rogers, Foster Stearns, John M.

Vorys, George H. Tinkham, Charles Eaton and Bartell Jonkman. Later, Chairman Bloom issued the invitations. INCOME TAX SENATE COMMITTEE EL BEAR HULL IN PRIVATE By the Associated Press Britain's desert troops were reported in battle contact with Italian defenders of Derna, Libya, where a swashbuckling Connecticut Yankee planted the Stars and Stripes in the war on Barbary pirates 136 years ago. Derna, ninety-five miles west of fallen Tobruk, is the gateway to the Mediterranean seacoast plateau.

May Make "Last Stand" Observers in Cairo predict Fascist Marshal Rodolfo Graziani might make a "last stand" defense on the plateau. Premier Mussolini's high command said Italian forces inflicted "considerable losses on enemy armored vehicles in lively fighting" east and south of Derna. It was at Derna on April 25, 1804, that General William Eaton, Dartmouth-educated former United States army officer, led a riffraff army of six United States marines and 500 Arabs and blacks to wrest the port from control of pirates. Seven Quiet Nights In London In the air. siege of Britain, London's millions had their seventh consecutive night without an after-dark alarm; but despite bad weather royal air force raiders streaked across the channel before dawn to the industrial city of Hanover, in north-central Germany.

Hitler's high command acknowledged four killed and six injured, in the raids in which several hundred incendiaries were dropped. Attention Focused on Africa Amid this comparative lull in the aerial conflict, attention focused on the rapidly developing African war theatre. The Soviet Russian army newspaper Red Star, commenting on the African campaign, said the Italian position was "critical," and expressed the opinion that it was no longer a question of Italian losses "but of possibility of their further resistance at all." REGULATIONS PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED FOR GROWERS' RALLY HERE WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (IP) The senate foreign relations committee decided to hear Secretary Hull behind closed doors today, after the state department head had asked permission to present some information privately. The soft-spoken Hull, appearing as the first witness in the committee's study of the lease-lend bill, told the group that there was on the bill, "but which should not be made known to every other He Usked the committee's cooperation in preventing publication of such information, declaring that publicity "would not be compatible with the public interest and might be injurious to our national security." SUPERVISORS MAY ADOPT BUILDING PERMIT PLAN ALARM NIGHT CHANDLER IS GIVEN OFFICE D.

B. Chandler, of Staunton, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Professional Photographers' Asso ciation of Virginia at its annual meeting, held in Richmond Satur day and Sunday. About seventy-five members attended, among them Miss Mabel Heist Bickle of Staunton. Mr. Ralph Holslnger, of Charlottesville, was chosen president, and Mr.

David Kent, vice-president. SCHOOL HERE FOR INDEPEND'T COOPERATIVES RICHMOND, Jan. 27 By way of the new and unusual, independent agents of Southern States Cooperative in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and North Carolina will study the B. of cooperation and the philosophy of service to farm people when they attend the Southern States school of cooperative administration at Hotel Rueger here Jan. 28 and 29.

Independent cooperatives affiliated with Southern States Cooperative will hold a similar school at the Stonewall Jackson hotel in Staunton Jan. 30 and 31. At Staunton, the faculty wil include Ray Cline, Staunton; John H. East, Churchville; Frank Sutton, Chestertown, L. O.

Brumback, Winchester; E. C. Compton, Cul-peper; W. G. Wysor, L.

Raper, R. V. Rice, W. T. Steele J.

J. Baker, G. A. Jackson, and H. P.

Martin. Clayton Clemmer, of Waynesboro, and Joseph Craun, of Weyers Cave, have been Invited to attend the school in Staunton. WOMEN WILL HOLD SERVICES IN RESIDENCES The Woman's auxiliary of the Second church is sponsoring cottage prayer meetings Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock in th interest of home and foreign missions. The prayer meetings will be held in the following homes: Mrs. Mattle Dlggs, 976 Klnzley court; Mrs.

Louis Brand, 648 Alleghany avenue; Mrs. Glenn E. Yount, 1020 North Augusta: Mrs. B. A.

Sadler. 268 North Lewis; Miss Clara Dlnkle, 607 Winthrop; Mrs. J. T. Curry, 313 Austin avenue; and Mrs.

W. A. Brand, 628 Hernden. All women of the church who possibly can, are asked tp at tend one of these meetings. 0 LONDON, Jn.

27. VP Wendell L. Willkie delivered President Roosevelt's message to Prime Minister Winston Churchill at a luncheon today, and disclosed that he intended to talk with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera during a visit to neutral Ireland. The American lunched with Churchill, after spending an hour the foreign ministry with Foreign Minister Anthony Eden. His surprise announcement that he hoped to visit Ireland raised speculation In neutral quarters as to whether he might plead Britain's case for the use of Irish ports for anti-submarine warfare.

Would Give Britain Full Aid LONDON, Jan. 27. P) Wendell L. Willkie, showing the same exuberance as when he campaigned for the presidency last fail, arrived in England yesterday "to do all I can to unite the United States and to give England all the aid that Is possible in its struggle for free men all aver the world." His spirits were so buoyant on the flight from Lisbon, Portugal, that he couldn't keep his seat. He paced up and down in the plane and even helped the navigators chart then-course.

Fell In Aisle Finally, he was so eager to see England that he incautiously stood up in the plane and fell in the aisle when it alighted at a western port. Unhurt and just as full of energy as before he picked himself up and vigorously brushed his Suit the one he was wearing when he left New York by Clipper last Wednesday. He carried a helmet which a ftfend had given him in New York. There was a reception committee on hand which included Commander C. R.

Thompson and Thomas Brand, representing the British government; Herschel Johnson, United States charge d'affaires in London, and General Martin Scanlon and Commander N. R. Hitchcock of the American embassy. "I am very glad to be in England for whose cause I have the utmost sympathy," Willkie said, "and ior whom I am attempting to do all I can to unite the United States nd to give England all the aid that is possible in its struggle for free men all over the world." He spent twenty minutes at the airport before leaving on another plane for London. In that time he talked, answering many questions but declining to make further statement regarding the imminence of the arrival of further aid for Britain from the United States.

To StaytTwo Weeks He said he expected to stay here about two weeks and added he was "anxious" to see as much as possible in that time. Reporters asked him about the letter President Roosevelt gave him to Prime Minister Churchill. Willkie only smiled. He said he had enjoyed the entire trip and "never felt better in my life." He obligingly repeated his news reel interview when it was drowned by the roar of planes. "But I want to have a look around before saying anything more," he said, adding that he hoped his whirlwind tour of the country would include all the towns which have been attacked.

worried about anything," fie chuckled when asked if he was afraid of being caught in an invasion attempt. Plain Willkie Before boarding the plane for London, Willkie observed: "I am just Wendell Willkie plain Mister Willkie, please. I have no official position here at all." Someone asked him about press con fei' fees, and he said: "I came here to listen not to make speeches." In a London interview, Willkie said, "I want to see as much as I can of English production and the social and economic life of the country." He "shrugged his shoulders and laughed, "I really don't know," when asked whether he would discuss with President Roosevelt at length his impressions of 'Britain. He said his arrangements for the tour of Britain were not yet fixed. 0 DESTROYED FORT GEORGE G.

MEADE, Jan. 27. (IP) Flames swept Itfttough the framework of the new cold storage plant being; built here late last night, damaging machin- ery and causing slight Injury to several goldier-firefighters. FRAMEWORK Five men have been selected for induction by Augusta county board No. 2, and ordered to report to thii board at the county courthouse at eight a.

m. Friday, Feb. whereupon they will be sent to the induction station of the Unite4 States army at Roanoke: 64 William Webster Knott 81 Elmer Glen Wimer 96A Carl Scott Shipplett 130 Elzie Louis Vest 131 John Hankins Ramsey Because one or more of the men named above may not be inducted at the induction station by th armed forces, the following: named men may be required as replacements: i 149 Arthur Paul Rimel 164 Russell Alexander ShefTer 174 Galen Randolph Sheffer 179 Horace McGaughlin Thompson. Any man so required to report a replacement shall be duly notified at least five days before he is required to report. Assistant Agricultural Agent H.

B. Morse, this morning announced the program for the annual Augusta County Fruitgrowers' association meeting to be held here Saturday in the auditorium of Beverley Manor high school beginning at ten o'clock. The program will consist of both morning and afternoon sessions, with the morning devoted to questions of interest to fruitgrowers more than anyone dse. Other farmers are invited to attend, however, Mr. Morse said.

The afternoon meeting will be open to-all farmers and Uie public generally, and Representative Graham A. Barden, of North Carolina, will speak on the wage and hour law in connection with agriculture. Barden To Speak The assistant county agent was very enthused over havmg- secured Representative Barden as his prin cipal speaker on the progTam. He said that Mr. Barden was very much interested in question himself, would be able to bring ttie farmers "straight and true facts facts that will be of great interest to them." Ten o'clock Is the opening hour for the meeting, at which time tho business of the association will taken up.

The meeting will com to an end at, one-thirty with Mr, Barden's address. Other prominent speakers to appear are A. H. Teske, state horti culturist, of Blacksburg; Dr. W.

S. Hougli, of the Winchester field la boratory; Dr. J. R. Magness, or th Beltsville horticultural station.

At twelve-thirty a iree lunca will be served the fruitgrowers, furnished by companies which supply farmers in this vicinity. Thesa concerns are the Arcadian Nitrate Soda the American Cynamidl the Niagara Sprayer and Chemical the Central Chemical T. P. Byers Implement California Spray-Chemical Corp. Higgs and Youngs, Staunton, ana Waynesboro Nurseries, Inc.

Mr, Morse asserted that there were sev eral concerns to be heard from. Program In Detail The complete program follows! 10 a. m. Business of the association. 10:15 a.

m. The Tree Removal Program and its Effect on the Apple Industry in Virginia A. H. Teske. i 10:45 a.

m. The Dormant Spray Program Dr. W. S. Hough.

11:15 m. Questions. 11:30 a. m. Beltsville Experiments and Apple Tree Fertilization Dr.

J. R. Magness. 12:15 p. m.

Questions. 12:30 p. m. Free lunch for fruit growers. 1:30 p.

m. The Wage-Hour Law and Agriculture Representative G. A. Barden, North Carolina. Officers of the Augusta association are W.

F. Young, Staunton, president; G. D. Hodges. Arbor Hill, vice-president; I.

R. Swortzel, Staunton, secretary. Directors are John Cowl, Swoope; Leo Mehlerr Waynesboro; H. S. Meeteer.

Waynesboro; W. M. Payne, Staunton; J. H. Morris, Waynesboro; L.

Foster, Waynesboro. FAiiTws ON SEPT. 8 RICHMOND, Jan. 27- (IP) Tht Virginia State Fair association, holding its annual meeting her today, announced Sept. 8-13 as th tentative date for the Stauntoit fair.

I -4 WAYNESBORO MAN CALLED TO SERVICE Twenty-eight Virginia reserve officers have been called into active service, Eightieth division headquarters in Richmond has just announced, including: First Lieutenant Edwin William Thompson, Waynesboro; Second Lieutenant Nelson Hill Hotchkiss, Fort Benning, and Richmond, V. M. i. '40. and former member of the Augusta Military academy faculty; and First lieutenant Fowler Pearis Johnston, of Roanoke, V.

M. I. '33, whose wife was the former Miss.Marcia Gooch, of Roanoke. AIR DEFENSE OF FLEET TO BE STRONGER WASHINGTON. Jan.

27 (IP) The senate passed unanimously and sent to the White House today legislation authorizing a $300,000,000 expenditure for modernizing the fleet air defense. The chamber acted within an hour after the senate naval committee had approved the legislation. Witnesses at the hearing testified that increased protection against air attack had been shown to be necessary because of lessons learned from the European war. Chairman Walsh, (D Mass) of the naval committee, said he would call up later authorizations totaling $909,000,000 for expanding navy shipbuilding and ordnance work and building four hundred small naval craft, which also had been approved by the committee earlier In the day. In response to a question of Chairman Walsh, Rear Admiral S.

M. Robinson, chief of the navy's bureau of ships, said that thirty-six of the new vessels would be suitable for convoying ships to Europe. 0 HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? TOPIC How Does Your Garden Grow?" is the title of a moving picture that comprised the entertainment feature at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis club this afternoon. The film, shown by J. W.

Pratt, of the American Agricultural Chemical illustrate the use of plant food and other essentials in the production of fine flowers, lawns, vegetables, and trees. A guest for the occasion was Kiwanian Sam Ellington, of Waynesboro. Ask The Mrs. And she will tell you how valuable The Leader Papers' classified ads are to her. And it goes without saying they would be just as valuable to -YOU, if you give them a chance.

If you have anything to sell, like office furniture, or second hand furniture of any kind, cows, dogs, guns, and other articles which you are not using, convert them into ready cash. This is a grand time to advertise, because folks are staying by the fire and reading their home paper. A 24-word ad costs but 65c for three times. WHO MUST FILE A RETURN? Every single person having a gross income of $800 or more; every married person, not living with husband or wife, and having a gross income of $800 or more; and married persons living with husband or wife, who have an aggregate gross income of $2,000 or more. WHEN MUST RETURNS BE FILED? For the calendar year, on or before March 15, 1941.

For the fiscal year, on or before the fifteenth day of the third month following the close of the fiscal year. WHERE AND WITH WHOM MUST INCOME TAX RETURNS BE FILED? In the internal revenue district in which the person lives or has his chief place of business, and with the collector of Internal revenue. HOW DOES ONE MAKE OUT HIS INCOME TAX RETURN? By following the detailed instructions given on Forms 1040-A and 1040, the income tax blanks. WHAT IS THE TAX RATE? A normal tax of 4 per cent on the amount of the net income, arrived at by deducting legal exemptions and credits from the gross income; a surtax on the surtax net income in excess of and a defense tax of 10 per cent of the combined normal tax and surtax. The Evening Leader today begins publication of a series of articles on the income tax.

One will appear daily under the caption "Income Tax Regulations." The first appears on an inside page. Turn to page nine, column seven. PETROLEUM SERVICE MAY BE OFFERED In order to consider further the advisability of establishing a cooperative petroleum service in Augusta county, a group of farmers is planning to hold a conference at Beverley Manor school here Friday evening, Jan. 31, at seven o'clock. Representatives of the Augusta Cooperative Farm Bureau, and Southern States Cooperative will meet with them.

soi1l fire, pupils march out RICHMOND, Jan. 27 OP) Seven hundred and fifty pupils at the Bainbridge Junior high school here marched in orderly lines out of the building shortly before noon today while a fire, which caused three alarms to be turned in, raged in the auditorium. None of the children was injured. The fire appeared to be under control early this afternoon, and most of the damage was confined to the auditorium. YUGOSLAVS HOLD FASCIST FLIERS BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan.

27 (IP) An Italian bomber with a full load of bombs landed yesterday at the Zagreb airport. Its five crew members, who were interned, said, they had lost their way in fog and had exhausted their fuel. ARMY FORT FIRE INJURES 14 MEN OSWEGO, N. Jan. 27 (IP) Fourteen Negro soldiers of Harlem's 369th anti-aircraft regiment were burned or injured last night when fire swept the supply wing of the administration building at Fort Ontario, LOST CONTROL OF MACHINE DUE TO SNOW One accident report has been filed at police headquarters, the collision having been caused by the slick street.

It occurred Sunday about one-thirty p. m. on Montgomery avenue, between Beverley and Stoneburner streets, George Harris, 1802 Robertson street, and Lawrence Robertson, 601 West Beverley streets, being the parties involved. Harris states that he was going south on Montgomery and that Robertson, going north, struck him. Robertson asserts that he lost control of his car due to the snow, and slid into Harris.

Damages were estimated at $15 to the Harris machine, and $30 to the one driven by Robertson, which is owned by A. M. Arnold, of 18 North New street. No court action was taken, it be ing assumed that responsibility was settled between the parties involved. T.

C. WATKINS DIES IN CRASH SOUTH BOSTON, Jan. 21 (IP) Tucker Carrington Watkins 3rd, of Halifax Courthouse, president of the sixth national tobacco festival and the son of a business leader of Southslde Virginia, was killed early yesterday in the collision of two automobiles at a street Inter section here. Aubrey Lee Forlines, nineteen, farmer of Nathalie, was fatally injured in the same accident. Mrs.

Watkins, who was Miss Lil lian Williams, daughter of a South Boston tobacconist, before her marriage last November, was thrown partially through the windshield of her husband's car and cut about- the face. Julian Hall, about twenty, young farmer of near Halifax Courthouse, who occupied the car with Forlines, was reported severely injured. Mr. Watkins was a V.M.I, alum nus. TWO SHIPS SUNK IN AIR ATTACKS, GERMANS CLAIM BERLIN, Jan.

27. (IP) Two British merchantmen, each of about 4,000 tons, were claimed yesterday as victims of Nazi air attack in widely separated raids on British shipping. In one attack, a German reconnaissance plane was said to have passed over Harwich, on the English east coast, just as a convoy was leaving the harbor. Four medium bombs were claimed to have scored direct hits on one steamer, the last causing a larger fire, and the vessel was listed as apparently destroyed. In another foray, about 300 miles west of Ireland, the high command said a long distance bomber on reconnoitering patrol sank another merchant ship.

"On the British east coast," the communique aoded, "two merchant ships as well as war vital facilities of one harbor were bombed. Last night combat planes successfully attacked airdromes in southwestern England." Although it reported a torpedo plane attack on a German outpost boat, It said there were no British air attacks over German soli either by day or night Saturday. TOKYO, Jan. 27. (IP) Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka was quoted by Domei, Japanese agency, yesterday as saying "the development of friendly relations between Japan and the United States will remain an idle dream" so long as "America maintains her policy of regarding China, instead of the eastern Pacific, as her first line of defense." Matsuoka testified before a house of representatives budget committee, the agency reported, and in answering questions concerning recent statements by United States Secretary of State Hull described the secretary's description of the Manchurian incident as "such an obvious distortion of the facts that it will not bear the-barest scrutiny." (Testifying before the house foreign affairs committee Jan.

To, Hull said the first step in the direction of "tyrannical rule" was taken "in the Far East in 1931 with forceful occupation of Manchuria in contravention of the provisions of the nine-power treaty and of the Kel-logg-Briand pact. equilibrium in the Far East which had been established by the Washington conference treaties of 1921-22 became seriously disturbed hv the settine ud by forceful means in a part of china of a re gime under Japanese control under the name of 'Manchukuo'," Hull asserted.) The foreign minister reiterated a desire for friendship with the United States which he said must be based on "sympathetic understanding of each other's policy," Domei said. Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, minister of the navy, testified, the agency reported, that the navy was prepared for any eventuality and that current budget estimates had been formulated with consideraiton for American naval expansion. JIMMY BERRY BADLY HURT IN CAR SPILL Jimmy Berry, twenty-six, 407 Westwood avenue, is a patient at the King's Daughters' hospital, where he is receiving treatment for a crushed chest, punctured lung. ana several DroKen niw, receiveu when the car he was driving overturned on Hanky mountain Sun day morning.

A member ot his fam ily said that he was under an oxygen tent and that only members of his family were allowed to see him. A hospital official said his condition was "very According to a sister, Mrs. Athealine Smiley, of Raphlne, Berry was returning from Monterey, to which point he carries Richmond papers on Sunday, and was rounding a curve on lhe mountain. She asserted that his car got out of his control on the slick road, and overturned three times, throwing him from it. The machine was considerably damaged, "she added.

A passing motorist, about eleven o'clock, saw Berry in the road. The motorist stopped and brought him to the hospital. State Trooper Numa Helsabeck investigated, but said ne did not know the name of the person who brought Berry to the hospital. The Augusta county board of supervisors will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday morning at ten o'clock in the office of the clerk, Charles K. Yancey, in the court house.

This meeting was scheduled for last week, but only three members not enough for a quorum were able to be present, so no important matters were discussed. Mr. Yancey said that the only important items to come before the board was the question of building permits for county residents. In explaining the permit situation, the clerk of the board asserted that permits would not cost the builder a cent, being primarily to furnish a record of building. He added that considerable construction is in progress throughout the county, adding that the commissioners of revenue had no way to check all that Is going on.

He cited several instances where several builders had gone for two or three years without having their property assessed and taxed. Should the board vote in favor of it as it now stands, county residents will be required to secure a permit for a construction to cost $500 or more. At the session last Thursday, Sheriff G. M. Gilkeson appeared before the board and requested that something be done about the condition of the county Jail.

He said that the plumbing was bad, and the cell accommodations too small. Clerk Yancey said that this matter would be discussed and the Jail would be given an inspection by the board, but nothing would be done on it at the moment. FIRE DESTROYS NAVY BUILDING AT NORFOLK NORFOLK, Jan. 27. IP) Fire yesterday did an estimated $275,000 damage to the Norfolk naval operating base administration and communications offices and destroyed a quantity of official documents and records at this center for 10,000 service men.

A board of investigation was formed immediately for an inquiry. The estimate of the damage was made by Captain H. G. McClure, commandant of the naval training station. The base was cut off from the outside by wire and radio for five hours.

Origin of the blaze, which started in the radio room, was not at first determined. The building was about a half mile from piers where were tied up the cruiser Quincy, a number of destroyers, supply ships and tugs. New hangers for the naval air station were being built nearby but no other buildings were threatened. The section burned included the auditorium and paymaster's office. Money In a vault in the basement was believed undamaged..