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— — Served By Leased Wire Of The ^ ^^ --- associated press TI . . . i . . . X ^ A ^ iiwim ^ * IT 4 REMEMBER \j3Ez? umttujwm iiumttmj sto pr= VOL. --TEN PAGES_WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. ‘Bastille Day Brings New Axis Slayings iCestapo Execution Squads Work Overtime In Con quered Countries 700 CROATS KILLED Reprisal For Assassination Of Nazi Police Leader At Zagreb LONDON, July 14.—(/P)— The “shadow armies” of France and other subjugated lands observed the Bastille anniversary today as the portent of an Allied invasion, while the Germans tightened their channel defenses and Gestapo execution squads worked overtime. British bombers roaring over northern France, Paris ! and Vichy, dropped 5,000,000 I messages from British Foreign Sec ,.etary Anthony Eden promising the liberation of France and aid to Nazi-enslaved millions. "We know.” the messages read, "that we and the people of France will again be brothers in arms.” Amid rising anti-German vio lence and sabotage on the conti nent, a Yugoslav government spokesman declared today that 700 Croats had been killed by the Ger mans in -reprisal for the assassina tion of the Gestapo chief at Zag reb. a Major Helm. He was killed by a hand gre nade thrown into his car on the main street of Zagreb, a supposed ly “safe city” in Nazi-overrun Yu goslavia, and the capital of an I Axis puppet government. "The Gestapo guards ran amuck after the bombing,” the spokes man said, “shooting at everyone moving on the street and hurling (Continued on I’ase Two; Coi. <4 WALLACE LEAVES CITY FOR NORTH Former Manager Reveals Destination Is Some ‘Cooler Place’ James G. Wallace, who recently submitted his resignation as city manager ot Wilmington to become effective upon appointment of a successor or at a time agreeable to the council, left here yester day, leaving the city temporarily without a manager. City councilmen said yesterday that they had not been advised officially of his departure. Whether he notified Mayor Bel lamv, who is out of the city, was not learned. The ex-city manager told em ployes at the city hall goodbye during the morning. To a friend, he confided that he was "going some place up north where he could be cool for awhile." Mr. Wallace, who would have completed a year of service as Wilmington's first city managei under the manager-council form of goverment, has been offered, •he position of city manager at Kenosha, a Wisconsin industrial center of some 70,000 population. He failed to reveal, however. ' nether he would accept the posi tion or not. City Manager C. L. Nichols of Greenwood, S. C., is scheduled to strive here Thursday for inter views with Mayor Hargrove Be1 amy. and other city officials. He « interviewed in Greenwood last K “y several council members. imrf!ClUded m the eight candidates r consideration by the mayor •Continued on Pa6e Three; Col. 8) WEATHER Korth r 1ORECAST Possible .u'ollns: Continued warm with E thundershowers. iMetenL,1’1.8' "I'athcr Bureau) endinc 7-tn lcal data for the 24 hours P- m. yesterday): 1:30 a Temperature m. SO; J.?- 7:30 a. m. 77; 1:30 p. •Tinimun,1 v p- m- 81; maximum 90. mean 82; normal 79. 1 30 . Humidity Si; ’7-3n „m‘ 95: 7:30 a- rn. 97; 1:30 p. m. ’ P. m. 7i Total f Precipitation p m nnnr thc 24 hours ending 7:30 of the m .!nciles; total since the first We mon‘h. 2.26 inches. 'from «, TilPS *>r T»8ay I', s. r ',' Tide Tables published by oav and Geodetic survey). V.il,„in Hi«h Low ' - -11:05a 6:07a •"fsonboro Met 11:23p B'01p fi let - 8:46a 2:43a Sunrise 51,„ B:r’7p 2:5°P 96a- 1]a sunset 7:24p: moonrisa ■ mPonset 3:49p. -a -» Two; Cob S) FARM DEADLOCK STILLUNBROKEN Senate And House Con ferees Work To End Two Months Stalemate WASHINGTON, July 14 — Senate and House conferees today worked out a compromise designed to break a two months’ old dead lock on the agriculture depart ment’s $680,000,000 appropriation bills, but thinned House tanks post poned a final vote on the agree ment. 34butRep.HopeCMFCM MF FC poned a final vote on the agree ment. The proposal was tentatively ap proved on a standing vote of 81 to 34 but Rep. Hope (R.-Kas.) object ed on the ground no quorum was present, and the House was ad journed. It previously had been agreed that because of the large number of absentees, no roll-call vote on the controversial measure would be taken until tomorrow. The proposal represented a split ting of the differences between the Senate and the House on appropria tion items and concessions on the matter of permitting the sale of government - controlled grain sur pluses at prices below parity for livestock feeding. Chairman Cannon (D.-Mo.) or the appropriations committee said the compromise was “ideal” in that it “suits nobody and is agreeable to everybody.” The House quickly agreed to the compromise appropriation items, and indications were the Senate would do likewise. House conferees expressed belief the Senate would accept the sur plus grain sales proposal but Sen ate republican leader McNary of Oregon said it would meet “stren uous opposition” and Senator Rus sell (D. - Ga.) asserted no agree ment had been reached. Under the compromise, submit ted by Cannon, the Commodity (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) beachresIdents NOW SHARING CARS Mayor Herrin Of Wrights ville Reports Plan Already In Progress There Wilmingtonians, who are residing at Wrightsville during the summer, already are using the share-a-ride plan for commuting to their work in the city, Mayor D. J. Herrin said Tuesday night. Vi Vi Vi Vi Approximately 1,000 residents at nearby beaches will keep their cars parked much of the time unless they use the plan, it was brought out Monday night at St. Paul’s parish house in a meeting of ra tion officials, fleet vehicle owners and local automobile dealers. The almost complete elimination of traveling men from the lists of those eligible for adequate ex tra gasoline rations was also an outstanding feature of the discus sion. Some 150 persons heard State Gasoline Specialist Darnell explain the provisions for rationing gaso line to trucks, non-highway users, and those who must have supple mental gasoline to carry on their work. Darnell stated that persons who have moved to nearby beaches for the summer are not entitled to sup plemental gasoline for commuting purposes unless they manifest their intention to use the share-the-ride plan. Under those conditions, and those conditions, and those only, will they be given supplemental gasoline by sub-registration boards today. Wednesday and Thursday. Not even war workers will be (Continued on Fate Three; Col, 1) Fixing Up The Two-Tonners Huge two-ton bombs are shown being readied for U. S. bombers at an American air base. These missiles, similar to those used recently by the R. A. F. on Germany with devastating results, have been turned out in mass production for months by the U. S. Ordnance Department. They will soon find their way to Axis targets.—Official U. S. Army Photo. RAF Attacks Railways And Airfields In Raid Over Northern France LONDON* July 14.—<«—Brit ish fighter patrols, maintain ing their offensive against German - occupied territories, attacked railways and airfields in northern France both morn ing and afternoon and set three small ships on fire off Ostend, the air ministry an nounced tonight. The fighter attacks followed renewed strong force bombing expeditions over the Ruhr Mon day night. The Germans admit ted Duisberg, Germany’s great inland port, was raided. Brit ish pilots set fires in a big in dustrial area in what they de scribed as a “good medium sized show.” During the day, an official communique said “fighters were on offensive patrol over northern France where they attacked railways and air fields.” One British plane was lost during the day operations, the communique declared. BY RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, July 14—UP—The incessant pounding of American fliers sank or damaged a score of Japanese ships in the battle of Mid way, the Navy announced tonight, and threw what had been a brist ling 80 - ship enemy armade into headlong flight. On our side the aircraft carrier Yorktown was put put of action and the destroyer Hammann was sunk. In all, the enemy losses were: Four aircraft carriers, two heavy cruisers, three destroyers and one transport sunk. Three battleships, two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and at least three transports damaged, many severely. An estimated 275 Japanese air craft destroyed in the air or lost at sea because their carriers had been sunk. Approximately 4,800 Japanese killed or drowned. By comparison, American losses were extremely light. They were: The aircraft carrier Yorktown put out of action when a Japanese bombing attack left her listing. As a consequence planes could not use her flight deck. The destroyer Hammann torpe doed and sunk in the latter stages of the battle by a Japanese subma rine. Most of her personnel was saved. Ninety-two officers and 215 en listed men. . No exact figures were given for American plane losses, but it was said at the Navy Department that they could be gauged by the num (Continued on Page Three: Col. 3) TIRE SAVING TIP It happened in Wilmington yesterday—it could happen no where else. A motorist traveling down a through street started across Fifth street, but slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting a little negro boy. Tires squealed on the pavement, leaving a 12-foot black mark of good old precious rubber. The motorist bristled, appar ently ready to haul forth his best combinations of profanity But, the little negro grinned sheepishly, looked at the driver and said: “You oughta hit me. Shouldn't be a-wastin’ rubber like that.” Nazis Pound At Red Lines On Long Front Crushing Drive Imperils Nearly 600 Miles Of Soviet Defenses HEAVY CASUALTIES Russians Claim 35,000 Nazis Killed Or Wound ed In Ten Days MOSCOW, Wednesday, July 15—(TP)—A crushing German drive imperilled nearly 600 miles of Russia’s front early today, but the Soviets said the Red army still was fight ing savagely in the Voronezh sector, where one formation alone killed and wounded more than 35,000 Nazis in ten days. The Soviets acknowledged their troops were taking ham mer blows both at Voronezh and Boguchar to the south in the Don valley. At the latter point the Russians again retreated to new positions after being almost trapped in a Nazi encirclement attempt. Besides the enormous casualties suffered at Voronezh, the Germans were said to have lost 157 tanks. 341' anti-tank and field guns and machineguns, and hundreds of sup ply wagons. The midnight communique did not disclose any significant changes in the fighting which ex tended to the Rzhev area north west of Moscow. But there also was no attempt to minimize the gravity of the situa tion. Instead Soviet commentators emphaszied the peril and called upon the Allies to open a second front in the west. “The battles on the eastern front are the battles for New York and London,” one Moscow radio an nouncer said. Multiple threats were fast devel oping to highly important indus (Contlnued on Page Three; Col. 5) Score Of Jap Ships Sunk Or Damaged By U. S. Fliers In Midway Battle r 2 Small Naval Craft Destroyed By Blaze At Canadian Shipyard MIDLAND, Ont„ July 14.—VP) —Two small naval craft and two large buildings at the Midland Boat Works here were destroy ed late today by a fire which swept unchecked towards the Midland Shipbuilding company, where two wooden ships are un der construction and four other vessels are being completed. The fire caused within a short while damage estimated at $500, 000, and at that time still was spreading. Lashed by a high wind, flames destroyed two wooden buildings and the naval craft at the Mid land Boat Works in less than half an hour, and the blazing fires continued eastward to wards the Midland Shipbuilding company, burning small boats at the docks. JAPANESEFORCES REACH WENCHOW Chinese Declare That En emy On Run On Two Oth er Fronts In War CHUNGKING, July 14 — W -The Japanese columns which have been plunging southward through the heart of Chekiang province have reached Wenchow on the coast, the Chinese high command said tonight but added that on two other fronts the Chinese had the enemy on the run. Wenchow, hitherto one of the few important ports remaining in Chi nese hands, was gravely menaced by Japanese troops which pushed into the city’s environs Saturday night, the high command said. (The Japanese announced Wen chow’s capture Saturday.) The drive to Wenchow thrust Ja pan’s second avenue of conquest across Chekiang. The first, com pleted last month, followed the line of the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi rail way, from Hangchow, the Japa nese - held capital in the north, (Continued on Pxtt Two; Col. 6) Seized In Spy Hunt Mrs. Hans Max Ha.upt of Chi cago, mother of Herbert Haupt, one of eight accused Nazi spies now on trial in Washington, has been arrested by the FBI, Attor ney General Biddle announced July 13. The FBI charges Haurt’s parents knew of his activities. CONVOY SYSTEM NOW EXTENDED Knox Reveals Protection Taking In Caribbean And Will Take In Gulf * NEW YORK, July 14.—(^—Sec retary of Navy Frank Knox said today that the convoy systems, in effect along the East coast of the United States since May 14, has been extended to the Caribbean and will take in the Gulf of Mexico. “We are getting various patrol vessels to combat submarines in to service as rapidly as possible and are increasing the number of patrol planes*with equal expedi tion,” he said at* a press confer ence held as he halted here on an inspection tour of the entire Eastern seaboard. Declaring that more officers and men were being thrown into the anti-submarine war, Knox added: “We have a large submarine combat school, which now has 1,200 men being trained for this service. It is an extremely difficult service. We require ships of the right type, the right kind of equip ment, and the right kind of men to handle them.” Asked if U-boat sinkings along the Atlantic coast were being re (Continued on Pas* Two; Col. S) PARACHUTEARMY QUELLS UPRISING Indian Sky-Troopers Break Up Moslem Campaign Of Murder And Looting NEW DELHI. India, July 14.— LT)—Parachute troopers of the In dian army were credited by mili tary quarters today with breaking up a murderous campaign of rap ine and train-wrecking by the Hurs. a tribe of bearded, turbaned fanatical Moslems who have spread terror in Sind Province, near India’s troubled northwest frontier. Hundreds of the Hurs hatfe been arrested and 27 executed by the military. A major stronghold of the Hurs was taken by the para chute troopers who dropped down into the Makhi Dhund, the “honey swamp.” The parachutists’ only casualties were two heat prostrations and one sprained ankle. Aided by ground patrols, they spent four days in the roundup in the swamp, but crocodiles and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) SENATORSARGUE OVER OPA BUDGET Vandenburg Declares Hen derson ‘Out In Rain With Half An Umbrella' WASHINGTON, July 14— W) — Senator Vanderberg (R.-Mich.) de clared today that Price Adminis trator Leon Henderson “is out in the rain with only half an umbrel la” while Senator McKellar (D. Tenn.) contended that a $41,000,000 budget slash for the Office of Price Administration would still permit it to “function justly, vigorously and accurately.” The debate was preliminary to votes tomorrow on restrictions pro posed by the Senate appropriations committee upon OPA operations (Continued on Pare Two; Col. AUSTRALIANS REPULSE NEW GERMAN ATTACKS A T TEL EL EISA RIDGE Fuel Oil Outlook Dreary For 1,250,000 Families WASHINGTON, July 14.—(0 An increasingly dreary outlook for eastern motorists and 1, 250,000 families using oil for heating was drawn today by the petroleum industry war council, which reported it could see now virtually no prospect for easing of the shortage. William R. Boyd, Jr., council chairman and president of the American Petroleum institute, said overland supplies would not be sufficient for the last quarter of 1942 and the first quarter of 1943, “regardless of all of the measures which the petroleum industry and the government are taking.” “Only by substantial tank ship movement averaging 300, I 000 barrels a day from now on, could provide enough petrole um to cover the demand, at least at the rate the east coast now is using it,” he said. His summary of the outlook was based on a report by the council’s economic committee which estimated the essential demand for petroleum products on the east coast would aver age 1,137,000 barrels a day for the third quarter of this year, 1,372,000 barrels for the fourth quarter and 1,160,000 barrels in the first quarter of 1943. To this, the committee said, should be added about 160,000 barels a day “if real consum er hardship is to be avoided.” The normal unrestricted de mand this year would have av eraged 1,600,000 barrels a day. Two Pound Sugar Bonus Grabbed By Rural Users NEW YORK, July 14— UP —The two-pound sugar bonus made avail able by the Office of Price Admin istration July 11 has been grabbed up quickly by rural consumers, trade quarters said today. The city housewife, on the other hand, has not been drawing rapidly on the extra allotment, these sources said. The OPA ordered the extra two pounds because of the better than expected imports of raw sugar from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sugar demand outside cities was reported good and since fruit there is plentiful and is cheaper than in urban centers it was believed the extra poundage went into home canning. 3 LENNONREPLIES TO COUNTY LETTER Explains Stand On Holding Recorder’s Court On Saturday Recorder Alton A. Lennon issued a reply Tuesday to the county com mission’s request Monday that the recorder acknowledge receipt of a letter sent him by the board follow ing the June 22 meeting when the commissioners voted to request that sessions of the recorders court be held on Saturdays in compliance with the law. Lennon's reply follows: Wilmington, N. C. July 14, 1942 Board of County Commissioners Wilmington, N. C. Gentlemen; 1 have your communication of yesterday through the Wilming ton Star-News relative to the holding of court on Saturday. In reply, I wish to advise that the public has a right to be thankful that your body has no thing more to do with the mak ing of the policy of the court than any humble citizen. I have not in eight (8) years allowed any individual or group of in dividuals to dictate a policy for the court, ami shall not now al low the interference of any group or individual. It was tnrougn misrepresenta tion that one of your members, Mr. Harry Gardner, sponsored legislation in order for the coun ty board to get control of my salary. He stated when I re quested the legislature for a salary increase that “the court is having less work to do than ever.” The public now knows this was not a true statement. Mr. J. Q. LeGrand, a member of the last legislature, at request of your board, secured the pas sage of the bill giving your board the power to set my sal ary, but conferred no power on you gentlemen to dictate the court’s policies. In my humble judgment, this wag strickly c political measure, designed sole ly for the purpose of obtaining control of ■ public officials, who should be free at all times to serve the citizens and voters who elevate them to these high places. The Recorder’s court of New Hanover county has averaged trying more than fourteen hun dred (1400) cases per month for the past sixteen months; this is more than twice as many cases as are tried by any other court in North Carolina. However, I receive a salary 30 per cent less than is paid to the Judge of Greensboro, Durham or Raleigh Courts, or others of like respon sibility. You gentlemen know that this Is tpue and refused to (Continued un Fan Two: Col. « GANDHI DECLARES ‘OPEN REBELLION’ _ Indian Leader Says No Room Left For Negotiation On Country’s Status LONDON July 14.— Wl—Mohan das K. Gandhi, commenting on the new all-India congress party res olution proposing the withdrawal of British rule from India, was quoted by Reuters today as say ing “there is no room left for ne gotiation—either they recognize In dia's independence or they don’t.” “There is no question of ‘one more chance’,” Gandhi was re ported to have said shortly after the resolution was published by the working committee of the par ty which has been in session at Wardha, India, more than a week seeking agreement on Gandhi’s re ported non-violent mass movement to gain independence. “This is open rebellion,” the lit tle Indian leader said. “I conceive of a mass movement on the widest possible scale, though of purely non-violent character. My intention is to make the movement as short and as swift as possible.” The resolution said the commit tee did not desire to embarrass Britain or the allied powers in prosecution of the war or in any way to encourage aggression against India or pressure on China. India or pressure on China. It added that the proposal for withdrawal of British rule from India was never intended to mean the physical withdrawal of all Brit ish from Indian territory. 2 FRENCH WARSHIP OFFER REJECTED Roosevelt Proposes Remov al Of Vessels At Alexan dria ; Laval Refuses WASHINGTON, July 14.—W— While Axis forces drove toward Alexandria earlier this month, President Roosevelt twice pro posed to Vichy that seven French warships there be removed, and twice the proposals were reject ed, the State Department disclosed today. The rejections were in the face of a warning from the President that unless the proposals were ac cepted the British would be justi fied in ordering the warships out of the port through the nearby Suez canal, and if the orders were disregarded, in destroying the ves sels to prevent their falling into enemy hands. Sumner weiies, acting secretaiy of state, disclosing the moves at a press conference today — the French Bastille day holiday—em phasized that the proposals were made with the aim of safeguarding the ships for the remainder of tne war and insuring their return to France afterward. On July 3 Mr. Roosevelt sug gested to Vichy that the warships, immobilized at Alexandria after j the Franco-German armistice of 1940. be placed under the protec tive custody of the United States and taken through the Suez canal to a United States port or to some neutral Western hemisphere port. The President pledged that after the war they would be returned to France. When Chief of Government Pier re Laval rejected this offer, Mr. Roosevelt sent a new proposal to Vichy July 9. This time he offered to arrange British-American safe (Continued on F»ie three; Col. 1) l * Air Force Hits Armored Cars Near El Daba Reported To Have Flat tened Approaching Mo torized Infantry 5 TANKS DESTROYED Each Enemy Assault Wills Before Three-Ply De fense Of Allies CAIRO, July 14.— (/P) — Australian desert troops have repulsed Axis armored coun ter-attacks aimed at regain ing the dominant coastal ridge at Tel El Eisa — Hill of Jesus — and the Royal Air force stepped up operations today against masses of tanks and motorized equipment the enemy is bringing up around El Daba. Sixteen large-scale RAF operations by British fighter bombers supported the ground forces defending General Sir Claude Auchinleck’s newly won positions at the northern end of the Egyptian battlefront. The aerial swarms were de clared to have flattened# the ap proaching Axis tanks and motor borne infantry in mass operations beginning yesterday. In the first phase of the day long battle on the north, heavy RAF bombers struck at the enemy transport columns and concentra tions, and this was followed up by a big fighter-bomber attack on Axis airfields to keep as many planes land-locked as possible. As a result the enemy air ac tivity was satisfactorily curtailed to an extent that permitted the RAF to develop cooperating oper ations with ground forces later in the fighting against enemy at- . tacks. Among five German tanks de stroyed by direct bomb hits were four of the powerful "Mark 3" type. Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tanks and infantry battered throughout yesterday morning at the allied salient along the coastal railway west of El Alamein at intervals of approximately an hour, but each attack wilted before the thre-ply defense put up by heavy artillery barrages, the Aussie ground troops and the RAF. (The Italian high command claimed “good results,” declaring Axis forces had taken numerous prisoners in the desert fighting, including a battalion commander, and spoke of intense aerial activi ty. The German high command was less sanguine in its claims (Continued on Page Two; Col. i) HOUSE COMMITTEE OKEHS WAR BILL Approves Six Billion Dollar Levy; Criticized By Knutson WASHINGTON. July 14.-UPI— The House Ways and Means com mittee formally approved a new $6,144,000,000 wartime revenue bill today containing corporation rates which Rep. Knutson (R.-Minn.) said in a minority report were “arrived at through a series of trades and shameless logrolling’’ and .hich would injure corpora tion engaged in the war effort. In ’ fr lal report to the House, which will start debating the big bill Thursday, the committee ma jority said that it had tried to obtain “eveiy dollar of additional revenue which, in its opinion, the national economy can bear.” It added that “care has been exer cised in every instance not to place an unbearable burden upon any taxpayer.” Knutson, one of the two mem bers reported to have voted against the legislation, slid in a minority report, speaking of pro posed new corporation rates: “It is no longer a secret that the present formula was arrived at through a serie: of trades and shameless logrolling. In all my (Continued on Fare Xwo; Coi. a»