WORK RESUMED
AT FORD PLANT
700 Men Left Machines Seek
ing Cancellation Of ‘Stag
ger System’
(By The Associated Press)
The Ford Motor company plant
at Iron Mountain, Mich., was back
in production yesterday after a two
day shut down caused by what un
ion leaders said was a “work ces
sation, not a strike.”
The last of about 700 men who
left their machines asking cancel
lation of a “stagger system” of
employment and weekly instead of
bi - weekly payments returned to
their jobs. Officials of the CIO
United Automobile workers said
the "work cessation” had not been j
authorized by the union.
At Buffalo, I*. Y., striking CIO
workers at the American Magne-!
sium Corporation plant voted to re- j
turn alter nearing appeals from un.
ion leaders and Army officers.
They were told that the War Labor
Board would open a hearing on
Monday on their demands for wage
increases. The strike had involved
about 1,000 employes.
But at Providence, R. I., BOO
workers in the Browne & Sharpe
Manufacturing company remained
on strike although leaders of the
International Moulders and Foun
dry workers’ union had urged them
to return. The strike followed dis
charge by the company of a shop
steward, a member of the union.
The War Labor Board at Wash
ington sent a request to Everett,
Mass., for striking employes at the
Monsanto Chemical company to go
back to work pending arbitration
of a dispute between the company
and an AFL union which seeks a
union shop and a wage increase of
seven cents an nour witn an addi-1
tional three cents for rotating shift
men. The company, which said the
average hourly wage was 90 cents,
offered five cents with an addition
al two cents for rotating shifts.
Eight hundred employes in seven
Kansas City flour mills walked out
yesterday after both management
and labor had agreed a wage con
troversy was a matter to be settled
by a Federal Labor conciliator.
A strike on Detroit’s municipally
owned transportation system was
ended, but the city ordered that be
tween 300 and 400 workers who
walked out be suspended indefinite
ly. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries said
that “no one who was guilty ot
stopping the transportation system
is going to be taken back and for
given and forgotten.” The city said
normal service would be maintain,
ed on the system by using seven
day shifts until the suspensions
ended or new workers were hired.
The strikers voted Friday night to
end the one-day walkout. Members
of an AFL union, the men struck
because of what they called exces
sive delays in wage negotiations.
LARGE NEW ORLEANS
SHIPYARD CONTRACT
CANCELLED BY U. S.
(Continued from Pare One)
"the amount of steel required
would best be diverted into exist
ing construction.”
NEW ORLEANS, July 18.— Wl —
A. J. Higgins, head of Higgins
Industries, inc., announced today
that his huge shipbuilding plant
being constructed under contract
to build 200 liberty ships within
two years was closed down today
by order of the U. S. Maritime
Commission.
About 10,000 men were employed
In the plant at Michaud.
“They said it was a shortage of
steel, that was their pretext,” said
Higgins in a statement.
“We have now working down
there 10,000 men. It makes no dif
ference to me personally, of
course, but those grand groups
are out.
"xnis action Dy tne maritime
Commission has hung crepe on the
biggest thing in Louisiana. It is
worse for the state than if the
river broke and flooded New Or
leans.
"There may be more behind it
than their bare announcement. It’s
my personal opinion that the de
cision in Washington was arrived
at and enforced by dollar-a-year
met).
"Maybe we were going to build
ships too fast, maybe we were
going to build too many ships and
too cheaply.
“We regret the damage to Louis
iana. We regret the disappoint
ment to a grand bunch ot men
that were in the organization,
many of them young who came to
this staff at a sacrifice and at a
lower scale of wages than they
were getting elsewhere, many of
them believes they could serve
their country best here in this
undertaking.”
Higgins has other plants which
manufacture torpedo and crash
landing boats for the Navy.
The contract for the 200 liberty
ships was awarded Higgins March
3. 1942 and ground was broken
three weeks later on the sprawl
ing plant, valued at $42,000 000 and
expected to employ about 40.000
workers by the time it reached ca
pacity In the fall.
The process by which the ships
were to be built involved a new
method with assembly line tech
nique in which pre-fabricated parts
would swing into place as the ships
moved down the line.
On this basis, Higgins said, al
most a ship a day—24 a month—
would be produced, the equivalent
©f 28 conventional shipyards. 4
Revivalists
The Rev. and Mrs. John Dorsey
of Ohio, will conduct a revival at
the Wesleyan Methodist church here
beginning July 19. The public is
cordially invited to attend._
City Briefs
CLUB TO MEET
The Winter Park service club
will meet Tuesday night at 8
o’clock in the school building.
All members and visitors are
invited to attend.
FOSTER TO SPEAK
Dr. Foster, pastor emeritus
of the First Baptist church,
will be the guest speaker at
Calvary Baptist church Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock. Chap
lain White of Camp Davis will
preach at the evening service.
RED CROSS CLASS
Mrs. C. B. Newcomb will
teach a standard Red Cross
First Aid class, beginning Mon
day, July 20, at 7:30 o’clock in
the reading room of the Ma
sonic Temple. Members are
asked to bring notebooks, pen
cil, triangular bandages and
money for textbook.
V.F.W. MEETING
The regular meeting of the
James A. Manley Post 2573
V.F.W. will be held Monday
night at 8 o’clock at the U.S.O.
building at 2nd and Orange
streets. All n.en of the armed
forces who have seen service
on foreign lands or on hostile
waters in World War II are
eligible for membership in the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. In
formation may be obtained at
the meeting or from any mem
ber.
CHAPEL SERVICES
Today’s service at the Little
Chapel on the Boardwalk,
Wrightsville Beach, will be
conducted by the Rev. W. B.
Mealy, pastor of the Presbyte
rian church at Montecello, Ark.
PROMOTED
Lieut. Graham Edwards of
Victoria, Texas, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Edwards of Forest
Hills, has recently been pro
moted from the rank of lieu
tenant to Captain. Capt. Ed
wards is also squadron com
mander at Foster Field, Vic
toria, Texas, at the Advance
Flying school of the Army.
CROWLEY TO PREACH
The Rev. J. S. Crowley, evan
gelist, will preach the morn
ing sermon at McClure Memo
rial church, Castle Hayne, to
day at 11 o’clock. R. F. Gib
son, elder in St. Andrew’s
Presbyterian church, will be
in charge of the service.
VISIT CAMP DAVIS
Edgar C. Garrahrant, Wil
mington, official of the Atlan
tic Coast Line railroad, and
Chesley Bellamy, Henderson
ville, were guests of Col. Os
car C. Warner, training center
executive officer, at Camp Da
vis Saturday. The visitors were
taken on a tour of the camp.
SPECIAL OFFERING
The Methodist churches of
the city will receive a special
offering this morning for the
proposed church plant to be
erected in Sunset Park to care
for the enlarged population of
that area. The people are ask
ed to use the special envelopes
sent them during the week for
this purpose.
METHODIST MEETING
The City Union of Methodist
Youth will hold its July meet
ing at the U.S.O. club on Har
bor Island Monday, July 27,
instead of on July 20, the usual
date for the session.
DEFENSE MEETING
A representativ eof the
Area Civilian Defense organi
zation will meet with Wilming
ton’s negro citizens at the Cen
tral Baptist church Monday
night at 8:30 o’clock for the
purpose of explaining and or
ganizing various classes in con
nection with the Civilian De
fense program here.
REVF’ SES FIFED
AMESBURY, Mass., July 18.—(/Pi
Samuel R. Bailey, prominent ma
chinery manufacturer, who an
nounced earlier in the week that he
would be a candidate for governor
“to obtain political supplies of gas
oline” reversed his field slightly to
day and became, instead, a Repub
lican candidate for councillor in the
Fifth district.
REDS DRIVE WEDGE
INTO NAZI POSITIONS
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to cautious defense. Coordinated
thrusts of Red, aviation, huge tanks
and ground troops gradually were
wrenching the stubborn Nazis from
their positions, dispatches said.
In the tense fighting based on
Millerovo, the Germans appeared
still to be about 175 miles from
Stalingrad and around 100 miles
from Rostov, both guardians of the
prime oil region objective.
The main force of the German
mass seemed to be aimed down the
Moscow-Rostov railway in the di
rection of the Sea of Azov where
the Don reaches salt water. The
Germans were said to be striving
mightily to capture a junction on
the spur rail line to Stalingrad.
Dispatches said the Nazi advance
was laying the countryside in ruins
with aviation pursuing the familiar
tactic of reducing towns and vil
lages in the path of the mechanized
German forces.
Orderly itetreat
But everywhere there was evi
dence that Timoshenko’s retreat
was slow and orderly and that he
was exacting a terrible toll of at
trition as h sold the rich wheat
lands for German lives and ma
terial.
Henry C. Cassidy, Associated
Press war correspondent, traveled
for two days 200 miles behind the
Don front and found Russian com
munications functioning superbly.
He said there was plenty of evi
dence of Russian planes behind the
lines and that no German air at
tacks had penetrated more than
100 miles beyond the fighting.
There was no evidence that
Timoshenko had yet hurled any of
his reserves into the battle, or that
Russian troops had been shifted
from other sectors. In contrast,
Russian reports have said repeat
edly, as they did today, that Von
Bock was constantly feeding new
reserves — many of them from
other sectors and many from far
rear — into his supreme bid to seal
off the Caucasus for winter cam
paigning, and to cut the Allied life
line to Russia via the Persian gulf.
The cities of Likhaya, Suiin and
Shakhty lie directly in the path of
the German juggernaut aimed
south from Millerovo.
CONTINUE ADVANCE
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts' July 18.—(IP)—German tanks
and motorized infantry have reach
ed the lower Don river east of
Rostov on a broad front in a con
tinuing southward thrust, the Ger
man high command reported today.
Infantry divisions also have gain
ed territory to the east in a frontal
attack and have annihilated en
circled Soviet forces, a communi
que said.
Since the beginning of the cur
rent drive a fortnight ago from
the Kursk and Kharkov areas,
military quarters said, the German
advance has covered a distance of
about 400 kilometers (250 miles),
depriving the Russians of one of
their most valuable breadbaskets
and an important industrial sec
tion.
CHANGE INDICATED
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts) July IS.— (IP) —A dispatch
from Ankara said diplomatic circles
there receiving reports today from
Kuibyshev, Soviet Russia, indicat
ing a change in command of Rus
sia’s southern armies was “immin
ent or already has been carried
through in the past 24 hours.”
This dispatch said one report was
that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko
would be succeeded in the south by
Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, chief
of staff of the Red army.
(There was no substantiation of
the German report from any other
source.)
RED REVERSES MAY
PROMPT 2ND FRONT
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most often mentioned because it is
axiomatic that no invasion can be
attempted beyond the range of
fighter planes. An essential condi
tion to success would be the occu
pation of German airdromes along
the French coast by American and
British forces. Without these, the
invading Allies’ air support would
be extremely limited.
enormous Hurdle
Shipping of course is an enor
mous hurdle since German subma
rines have greatly reduced the Al
lied pool and every ship is needed
to supply and reinforce fronts
throughout the world. Northern
France offers the shortest avenue
for invasion on which small Allied
ships could be used repeatedly as
at Dunkerque, under constant Al
lied air protection.
Two French peninsulas are ad
vantageous for amphibian offensive
operations. If either the Cherbourg
or Brest peninsula were occupied—
as suggested by one newspaper—
the sea would be secure on both
flanks.
The German spearhead which
burst into France in May, 1940,
comprised eight armored divisions.
It is difficult to believe that the
Allies could break the coastal de
fenses with less, together with
about 22 supporting infantry divi
sions each with artillery. Thus the
initial Allied invasion force would
comprise 450,000 men at least.
A reserve force of 15 divisions,
including two armored divisions,
would have to stand ready to make
good initial losses which military
men say would be heavy.
transporting ana maintaining
such ain army would require a min
imum of 200 medium merchant
men, 1,500 barges, 1,500 tank light
ers.
Alternative
Landing heavy equipment would
be extremely difficult, particularly
if small ports were chosen as
bridgeheads. The alternative would
be to capture a strongly protected
base such as Lorient or St. Na
zaire, which would be a major op
eration in itself.
Another difficulty is the need of
reserve ships, barges and lighters.
I
OPA Film Find
Dallas-born Mary Bryne, secretary
in the OPA office, will play the role
of a secretary in Bob Hope’s new
picture, which has a Washington
background.
SOLONS APPROVE
FLORIDA CANAL
(Continued from Page One)
:ated advance approval of the pro
posal.
Asserting that passage of the bill
had established precedent for
spending money on projects which
would not contribute immediately
to the war effort. Senator Gerry
(D-R.I.), said he expected the St
Lawrence project, which he also
opposes, to be brought up soon.
Expressing the same viewpoint,
Senator Austin of Vermont, the as
sitetant republican leader, said he
thought a $44,000,000 outlay for a
high-level lock canal across Flor
ida would be “wholly contrary to
the policy of putting our money in
to resources needed for the war
effort.”
He had no doubt, Austin said,
that efforts now would be made to
push the St. Lawrence project, in
volving an outlay expected to ex
ceed $500,000,000 before a deep
water route could be completed to
the Atlantip from the Great Lake?
and attendant hydro-electric power
developments carried out. Engi
neers have estimated it might take
four years to build the seaway.
On the other hand. Senator
Clark <D-Mo.>, who supported the
Florida canal proposal but vigor
ously opposes the St. Lawrence
project, said he thought no com
parison could be made between the
two.
“We certainly have not estab
lished any precedent for the St.
Lawrence proposal by voting to
build a barge canal across Flor
ida.” he declared.
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JAPS BLASTED OUT
OF WENCHOW AREA
(Continued from Page One)
Nanchang. Kinki itself has
changed hands several times.
In eastern Kiangsi, the high
command said attacks upon towns
by Japanese striking from Kwang
feng had been repulsed and that
other enemy units attacking San
tou, north of Canton, in Kwang
tung, were routed and sent retreat
ing toward Yuantan, on the Can
ton-Hankow railroad.
Central News reported that in
northern China the Japanese had
occupied Siaoyi, central Shansi
province, following bloody fighting
lasting several days. 4
Large merchantmen suitable for
trans - Atlantic convoy service
would be useless in small ports.
They present a large target any
where. Small tugs, freighters and
coastwise vessels which brought
one British army away from
France would havt* to be employed
to land another.
All these problems are dwarfed
by the task of supply. Much of the
equipment for U. S. Forces must
be brought across the Atlantic.
For instance, an armored divi
sion includes from 3,000 to 5,000
vehicles. Gasoline, tires and spare
parts must follow closely behind
each division. Moreover, huge tank
repair shops must be opened as
soon as a division is in action.
Supplying invading riflemen like
wise is a major problem. Each
American, British or Canadian car
ries about 100 rounds into action.
Experts estimate at least 75 per
cent of a landing force would ex
haust its entire supply on the first
day.
Food is another worry because
the Germans already have stripped
France of all its edibles beyond
immediate civilian minimums. All
Allied food would have to be moved
across the channel, much of it
transshipped from the United
States. 3
CARD OF THANKS
To express our thanks and heart
felt appreciation to all for then
sympathy, kindness and help dur
ing our great sorrow in the recent
death of our mother.
The family of Mrs. E. A. Walker
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AGAINST ALLEGED
PRICE BOOSTERS
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cents, and declaring that the raise
was the result' of a “misunder
standing.”
In a signed statement to OPA
Inspector James C. Green, one of
the Clinton dealers said the beer
vendors there had signed an agree
ment to raise the price of the bev
erage five cents.
In the case of the Famous Club
and Grill, witnesses declared that
they had been charged a dime for
a nickel bottle of grape soda.
Camp Davis soldiers said that they
had been charged 25 cents for a
bottle of 7-Up at the Cape Fear
Sandwich shop and 25 cents for a
bottle of 16-cent beer.
George Kontollas, one of the
three proprietors of the sandwich
shop, submitted a statement in
which he declared that waitresses
in the place paid for orders over
the counter and collected from the
customers in turn and that the
overcharging had resulted from
the employment of inexperienced
help The shop was receritly de
clared out-of-bounds for Camp
Davis soldiers by Maj.-Gen. Fred
eric Smith, commanding officer of
the camp.
In issuing the orders, Judge
Meekins declared:
“The acts and practices of the
defendents, as alleged, tend to pro
duce an inflationary spiral, as well
as tending to result in the exploit
ation of members Of the armed
forces and of citizens of modest
means whose functions and activi
ties are vital to the war effort.’’
The step came after numerous
and widespread complaint that
beer retailers were flagrantly vio
lating the price regulations, Shep
ard said in Raleigh. He added
that investigations were being
made in other towns as to beer,
and also that inspectors were
ready to crack down on dealers
who are reported to have gone up
on the price of soft drinks.
“Scarcity of bottled drinks is be
ing used as an excuse to mulct
the public,” said Shepard. “This,
of,.course, is the very germ of in
flation. Without scarcity and a
concurrent heavy demand, such
price increases could not be pos
sible, and scarcity can hardly be
pleaded as an excuse, since the
GMPR were set up to stop just
this sort of run-away prices.”
Shepard revealed that investiga
tion of a large drug chain in North
Carolina had been made and the
findings forwarded to regional
headquarters for disposition. Two
violations were charged—failure to
post prices properly, awl fa ,.
file cost-of-living i:e> ; -'It
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DETROIT, July i .. , ;. ‘ .
letter to employes M;„
a strike at the tank ■ ,1,te
by the Fisher Body y
eral Motors Corp., no
E. F. Fisher, the Mho
manager, appealed y ;,
turn to work and t> •,|f,
“a national disgrace.'’
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