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Served By Leased Wire Of The i 1 ■ associated press ! REMEMBER WIDE WORLD With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR State and National News BATAAN - FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. Willkie Meets Egyptian Premier During Tour Enjoying a hearty laugh in Cairo, Egypt, is Wendell L. Willkie (left), personal representative of President Roosevelt, Mustapha Nahas Pasha (center), premier of Egypt, and Alexander Kirk, American minister to Egypt. The photo was made when Willkie called on the premier durin g his extensive tour of the Allied Nations. It was released by the U. S. Office of War Information. (Central Press) rhe R.A.F. Arid Axis Fight It Out 'or Mastery Of Egyptian Front. _____ a. .SWAR LEADERS TO GET TOGETHER PB Creates Central Com mittee To Arrange For Semi-Weekly Meet WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— <-T> — ie War Production Board created light a central committee to bring [military agencies, the Maritime mission and WPB together for Irice-a-week check up on the itie war production picture. Designated by WPB Chief Donald Xelson to head the new unit— i Production Executive commit i - was Charles E. Wilson, Rident of the General Electric ipany. Bison, said Nelson, ia charged ith “seeing to it that programs ii schedules for all phases of our ar effort are met.” The committee, another WPB orce said, puts one top man in a nation from which he can survey otinually the whole war production tore as related to the 'diversified eels of the Army, the Air Force it tvary and the Maritime Com lissiou. The twice-a-week regular meet gs of the committee, supplement I by extra sessions when needed, ill give Wilson a chance to talk irectly with responsible heads of ie fighting forces and the Mari ne Commission and from them to ft a constantly revised idea of the fgent needs of each agency and ® overall supply situation for feting those needs. --V 'OTING IS LIGHT IN U. S. ELECTIONS carcely More Than Third Registered Cast Bal lots In Nation Washington, sept. 17 — up — unofficial tabulation of 1942 caary voting in 35 states reveal today that scarcel more than Wrd of those registered and Me actuall exercised the pri f§s of casting their ballots. Je total of those who voted was 37,426. The total of those who nt have voted was 42,191,779. ; Percentage of those who did 5 35 per cent. fficials here who watch elec * closer said several factors ' responsible. Voting always ! m a year in which there is Presidential contest. The World demonstrated that in war ' ■* voters are apathetic. The i " of acute issues in many s contributed . . “Edition millions of voters are • fcorn home—in the Army or There has been much migra. .0 defense workers from state -eh 3nd undoubtedly many of r have not been in their new [vot °n§ enouSh t° be eligible tor hours of work in the war les' too, tend to keep voters i, r°rr> the polls, although Don ldu-Nelson. the director of war ; o°lon- announced that voting ne of the few good excuses 'tonimued „„ P>te Threei Col. «) Above ‘Stuka Alley' Brit ish And German Planes Lock In Battle By DANIEL DE LUCE. ’ WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Sept. 17—(lP)—Above Stuka Alley, where you rubber-neck in a steel hat, the RAF and the Axis fought it out again today for mastery of the Egyptian front. You’re on El Rumweisat, the ridge paid for in blood, between the turquoise surf of the Mediter ranean and the hot, bleak wastes of the Qattara depression. You crouch inside a small circular wall of rocks piled up by-the Italian in fantry not long ago. You stare across no-man’s-land at Marshal Rommel’s outposts and count his armor rumbling to new havens from the dusty north-south track and try to keep tab on the whirling dogfights in the bleached blue sky. Weary and licking their wounds after their assault on British war ships at Tobruk early in the week, the Nazi Stuka s have temporarily deserted the battlegrounds bearing their nickname. But the skies are over-run with Messer schmitts, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -V WICKARD ASSERTS FARMS NEED LABOR U. S. May Take Action To Keep Hired Help From Leaving Agriculture WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 —— The farmer’s hired man has be come such an important person that Secretary of Agriculture Wickard hinted broadly today at possible government action to pre vent him from dropping his chores and going to the city to work in a munitions plant. Agriculture can’t compete with industry in payment of wages, Wickard said, but it is vital that the nation’s farms be manned with trained men. “If a patriotic appeal for men to stay on the farm won’t work, then we' will have to make some other approach for people to stay in the industry for which they are best trained,” he said. Meanwhile, the House Commit (Conf'.nued on Page Two; Col. 3) -V WEATHER VARITf1 A ST • NORTH CAROLINA — Continued warm today. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m„ yesterday: Temperature: 1-30 a. m. 77; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. m. 92; 7:30 p. m. 82; maximum 94; minimum 73; mean 84; normal 73. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 89; 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:30 p. m. 49; 7:30 p. m. 76. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month, 1.76 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington- 3:34a. 10:57a. Masonboro Inlet- ^ Sunrise 5:57a; sunset 6:15p; moonrise l:58p; moonset—. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Thursday, at 8 a. m., 9.75 feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) MAN LEAVES RAFT ON LONG ISLAND Coast Guard Fires On Uni dentified Person After Discovery; Escapes NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—(TP)—A Coast Guard patrol fired on a man seen running from a wooden raft discovered on a Long Island beach last night, but a search of the vi cinity failed to uncover any un usual occurrence, the Army and Navy reported today. The site of the encounter was on a south shore beach near West hampton, approximately 25 miles from the spot where four Nazi sabo teurs came ashore from a submarine at Amagansett beach two months ago. The Eastern Defense Command and the Eastern Sea Frontier re ported jointly that the patrol came upon the small raft at about 10 p. m., Eastern War Time, and that the patrol reported seeing a “prow ler running along the beach in that vicinity.” “A shot was fired in an unsuccess ful attempt to halt the prowler,” the announcement added. Subsequently an Army beach pa trol, police and other coast guards men searched the beach without avail. Throughout the morning a wide spread search was conducted by military, federal and municipal au thorities over most of Eastern Long Island. Motorists were stopped and asked to identify themselves and trains of the Long Island railroad were boarded by authorities. While there was no official com ment, an inspection of the poorly (Continued on Fare Three; Col. 8) SENATOR OBJECTS TO PAYROLL TAX Vandenberg Wants Deduc tion To Remain At Two Per Cent WASHINGTON, Sept 17. — <*) — Objecting to the use of Social Se curity funds to help pay for the war, Senator Vandenburg (R Mich) introduced a resolution in the Senate today to keep the pay roll tax at two per cent, divided equally between employer and em ployee. The tax bill will be doubled au tomatically next January 1, un less Vandenberg’s amendment to the 1939 law is adopted, and he said the Treasury intended to ask a further increase to 5 per cent each on employer and employee. For the fiscal year ending last June, Vandenberg said, receipts from the tax amounted to $972, 000,000, while payments were only $141,000,000, so that an increased tax “obviously is not necessary to meet current old age obligations.” He estimated the reserve of $3, 227,000,000 at six times the total anticipated benefit payments dur ing the next five fiscal years, or thirty times the maximum recom mended by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau in 1939. The reasons for the proposed in crease, the senator said, "have nothing to do with social security or old age payments,” but with “a further So-called attack upon infla (Continued on P»fe Three; Col. 7) I MOP UP NAZIS IN STALINGRAD; P BASE IN NEW GUINEA HARD HIT; MADAGASCAR REFUSES PEACE TERMS - ★ ---+ _ J.- w _i ALLIES DAMAGE ENEMY SHIPPING Start Large Fires In Fuel Dumps At Big In vasion Base NEAR PORT MORESBY Nipponese Troops Only 32 Airline Miles From Vital City GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Austra lia, Friday, Sept. 18.—(/P)-— Allie planes pumped 35,000 rounds of cannon and ma chine gun fire into the Jap anese invasion base of Buna in New Guinea to destroy or damage at least 15 barges and start fuel dump fires visible for 25 miles, a communique said today. The destructive fighter plane attack on Bune, which feeds the overland drivd to ward Port Moresby, occurred while Allied ground troops were locked in “sporadic fighting” with Japanese jun gle troops at Ioribaiwa, only 32 air line miles from Port Moresby. Allies Attack New Britain Allie planes also made attacks on Japanese bases in New Britain, northwest of the Solomons where TJ. S. Marines apparently still were holding their own despite heavy Japanese pressure. In a night attack on the big New Britain base of Rabaul “our heavy bombers raided enemy installations (Continned on Pate Three; Col. 3) -v County Recorder's Court To Give Several Hundred Pounds To Scrap Drive Five or six hundred pounds of scrap metal collected by recorder’s court during the past eight years will be turned over to the war scrap metal drive soon by order of H. Win field Smith, solicitor of the court. Most of the metal has been used as exhibits in cases tried by the court and has not been claimed by individuals or cor porations, Mr. Smith said. It will be donated to the Boys’ Brigade club, which is now engaged in the collection of scrap metal for the war ef fort. Lions Pledge $77,000 In Bonds At Luncheon -1 The Lions club rang the bell yes terday when members subscribed for $77,425 worth of war bonds. Lest any person of the doubting Thomas type entertain a belief in the validity of these pledges in this intensive campairn for sales among civic clubs in Wilmington, the directors of the crusade ex plained that every dollar in the growing total of subscriptions rep resented an actual, factual, signed order for war bonds. Fred Willetts, acting again as auctioneer as he did before the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs on pre vious days, was aided in the sale by Mosely Fonvielle and Allen Ewing. The response, all agreed, more than met their expectations, and commented that if the Ex change club still to hold auctions keeps up the -ze which has quickened with each auction, Wil mington civic ovr—'zation will lead the state in sales. The Rev. Sankey Lee Blanton, pastor of the First Baptist church, introduced by i,-’° Rev. James Law son, addressed the on the min ister’s life among, *' "ople. Leo Williams, manager of the Tom McAnn Shoe store, was in ducted 'into membership. Bob Mathews, a former member of the club and of the Star-News staff, recently released by the Navy to attend the Marine Officers Train ing school, and spending his brief vacation in Wilmington, was a guest of the club. Yesterday’s meeting celebrated 100 per cent attendance day and marked the beginning of a new at tendance contest which will cover thirty-two weeks. Wick Twining presided. 25 TICKETS LEFT FOR BOND DINNER 175 Of 200 Seats Are Bought For ‘Stars Over America’ Campaign Only 25 tickets for the “Stars Over America” war bond dinner here Sunday afternoon remain un sold, Allen C. Ewing, chairman of the ticket committee said yes terday. Persons who have pur chased war bonds of $500 maturity value or more are eligible to at tend, he said, upon payment of $1.50 per person for the dinner ticket. Remarks by an Army and a Marine general together with pep talks promoting the sale of war bfends by two movie stars will be the feature of the program to be presented at the dinner at the Cane Fear Country Club. They are Major O'' Frederic H. Smith, commanding officer at Camp Davis and Brigadier Gen eral Hal Turnage of the New River Marine Base. The affair will begin promptly at 2 o’clock since the two stars, Jane Wyman and John Payne must be at the war bond rally at the New Hanover high school by 3:30 o’clock. The program will be opened by the invocation by the Rev. Walter Freed. The guests of honor will (Continued on Paje Three; Col. 2) Pacific Air Chief According to a statement from General MacArthur’s headquar ters, Maj. Gen. George Kenney of the U. S. Army Air Force lias been appointed commander of the Allied air forces, in the southwest Pacific. He succeeds Lieut. Gen. George Brett, who returned to the U. S. recently. (Central Press) ARMY TO ASSIST IN SCRAP DRIVE War Department Makes Trucks Available For Collections WASHINGTON. Sept. 17— UP) — Hampered at every turn by trans portation problems, the national scrap salvage drive got a welcome boost from the War Department today, in the shape of orders mak ing Army trucks and personnel available for scrap collection. Secretary Stimson announced that the trucks could be used to pick up junk as far as facilities would permit and without inter fering with normal Army duties. They may be utilized, however, only in areas adjacent to Army camps and stations and cannot be used for long hauls. Until the War Department acted, newspapers assisting in the salv age campaign, together with the 12,000 local salvage committees established by the War Production Board, were forced to rely on such WPA equipment as might be avail able, county or municipal trucks, or vehicles volunteered by private citizens. In many instances, scrap collec tions have been threatened with failure because of the shortage of trucks needed to pick up and de liver junk to salvage depots. Paul C. Cabot, deputy director (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) FRENCH TO RESIST TO EXTREME LIMIT Vichy Says Peace Terms Appear To Be Un acceptable STRUGGLE CONTINUES English Believed Advanc ing Toward Capi tal Of Island LONDON, Sept. 17.—</P)— Surrender terms laid down by the British have been re jected by the outnumbered Vichy French defenders of Madagascar and they have decided to fight “to the ex treme limit,” Vichy announc ed today. The day after the colonial governor General Armand Annet had, on his own re sponsibility, requested the British for terms to halt the fighting, Vichy broadcast a communique saying the Brit ish stipulations “appear to be unacceptable to such an ex tent” that Annet could not even consider them. struggle To Continue “All measures are being taken to continue- the struggle despite the disproportion in forces and means!,” the radio continued. The British, meanwhile, were be lieved continuing their advance to ward Tananarive, inland capital of the island, which began when the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force attacked three key points on Madagascar’s west coast Septem ber' 10. The principal fight appeared to be on the road to. Tananarive, the capital, 230 miles southeast of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) BRITISH VESSEL SUNK BY U-BOAT Disclosure Brings Total At lantic Sinkings To 417 Since December By The Associated Press The submarine-siking of a me dium-sized British merchantman in the Caribbean late last month was disclosed by the Navy yesterday boosting to 471 the Associated Press count of announced Western At lantic ship losses since America’s entry into the war. Ten survivors of the steamer, who arrived at an East Coast port, told how one of the seamen risk ed his life to save a shipmate whose arm had been crushed by a piece of timber just after the tor pedoing. Unable to use his arm to don a lifejacket, Able-Bodied Seaman Robert Mathews turned to his boy nood chum, Frank Hughes, for help. Hughes put his own lifejacket around the. injured man and the two jumped into the water. Hughes held Matthews’ head above water to keep him from drowning until, an hour, later rescuers arrived. A U. S. naval vessel picked up survivors, including Hughes and his friend, but Matthews died Meanwhile, London stated that a Reuters dispatch from Stockholm yesterday quoted “reliable Norwe gian reports, that 24 German-opera ed vessels were blasted to the (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3) F. R. Moves To Stop Farm Parity Formula Increase WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— <A>) — President Roosevelt and two of his high-ranking aides swung into ac tion today to block a movement in congress to boost the farm parity formula — a movement which the President warned would destroy all possibility of stabilizing the cost of living. The Chief Executive made known his "unalterable opposition” in a letter to the chairmen of Senate and House Banking committees, which are at work on price and wage control legislation in response to his demand for action by October 1 against inflation. Soon afterward Secretary of Agri culture Wickard and Price Admin istrator Leon Henderson also ex pressed opposition to the new parity formula. This formula, which would include farm labor costs in the parity index for the first time and thus raise the index is embodied in legislation offered by Rep. Steagall (D-Ala), prominent in the farm bloc. At a press conference, Wickard said it “would tend to increase the cost of living and raise to some ex tent the whole price level of the country.” (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 1) Reports On Pacific Pictured is Rear Admiral YVm. H. P. Blandy, who has just re turned from an extensive 20, 000-mile inspection tour of naval installations in the Pacific. He declare that U. S. forces now hold the balance of striking power in the western Pacific. This is an official IT. S. Navy photo. MYSTERY BLIMPS GO OVER HUNGARY Explosive Laden Balloons Reported Over Axis Partner In Europe LONDON, Sept. 17—(TH—Myster ious balloons laden with explosives were reported over Hungary to night while the Sofia radio shoult.ed an air raid warning and suddenly went off the air in the midst of a sudden crisis between Bulgaria and Russia over a consulate raid by Bulgarian police. The Budapest radio officially warned Hungarians of a large num ber of enemy balloons floating over their country but no other word was given to explain their origin or whether they were causing dam age. Almost in the same hour the Sofia announcer broke off in the middle of a sentence to shout: “Air raid warning. Bulgarians. Bulgarinans keep calm.’’ Then his station immediately shut down. Bulgaria has had air raid warn ings in recent days but no raids. The little Balkan country never has declared war against its old friend Russia, but is definitely alligned with the Axis as a partner. The Moscow radio reported that Bulgarian police raided the Soviet consulate in the Black Sea port of Varna last Tuesday. The an nouncement said a number of out rages was committed, including the robbery of consulate funds. The Soviet minister in Sofia has (Continued on Page' Ten; Col. 2) -v Another Large Convoy Of U. 5. Troops Lands Safe At British Port LONDON, Friday, Sept. 18 —(/P)—The Daily Mail said to day that another large contin gent of XT. S. troops, including hundreds of Army technical ex perts some Air Force person nel, and anti-aircraft and trans port units, have arrived in Bri tain. The troops, whose arrival date was not given, were said to have had “a fast peaceful” Atlantic crossing, e'-e *ed by British and American war ships and RAF flying b»-'- in the final stage. HUNDREDS KILLED BY SOVIET ARMY Main Conflict Still Rages Northwest Of City Of Stalingrad CLOSE FIGHTING SEEN Germans And Russians Are Locked In Hand To Hand Battling MOSCOW, Friday, Sept. 18. — (fP) — Bayonet - wielding Russian troops wiped out hun dreds of German shock troops who smashed into Stalin grad’s streets yesterday, and the main conflict still rages on the northwestern outskirts of the city where thousands of Nazis have fallen, the Sov iets announced early today. Both Russians and Ger mans were fighting in cellars and on housetops on the fringes of the city, press dis patches said. The repulse of the Nazi break into the city itself was related thus by the communi que. Penetrate Into Streets “During the night single detach ments of Hitlerites were able to penetrate into some of the streets. “Street fighting resulted which developed into hand-to-hand en counters. Toward the end of the day all detachments which had pene trated were repulsed. “The Germans left behind hun dreds of dead and damaged trucks and tanks.” Continuing the story of the epic struggle for Stalingrad, the com munique said: “Within two days one of oqr units destroyed 54 German tanks, 21 guns, and 12 motor vehicles. They wiped out about 1,500 enemy of ficers and men. “On another sector our guards men routed a battalion of enemy inantfry and destroyed eight tanks, (Continued oil Page Two; Col. 2) STALINGRAD’S FATE SEALED, SAY NAZIS Claim Russians Putting Up ‘Suicide’ Fight With Invaders BERLIN tfrom German Broad casts). Sept. 17—MP)—Soviet sol diers in Stalingrad are putting up a “suicide” fight against the Ger mans who have driven a wedge through tl;e city to the banks of the Volga, a Transocean New* Agency report said today. The German agency sa» the Red Army still left in the city of Stalin was “offering fanatical resistance in small and large groups which military quarters in Berlin char acterize as suicide.” “Stalingrad has ceased to be a solid block of resistance,” it add ed. and parts of the city are "un der complete control” of the Nazis. Earlier, the high command dis missed the Stalingrad fight with this one sentence: “the battle for the fortified city of Stalingrad is progressing without interruption.” The Germans said they had changed their tactics to a fight for every road, every house and every stronghold in the city. The radio reports said heavy, three-inch field howitzers, shell throwers and anti-aircraft artillery as well as armored infantry and sappers were leading the German troops into the city step by step. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) -v OP A Tightens Regulation On Ration Book Holders WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— UP) — Moving against “black market" gasoline transactions, the Office of Price Administration announced to day that henceforth it would be illegal for a person to possess a ration book not issued to him, or to the us* of which he Is not en titled. A specific exemption to the amendment permits a person find ing a lost book to return it to a local rationing board without violat ing the regulation*. ’
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