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Ht Voronezh;
Delaying Axis
Laiani Admit Evacution
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NAZIS ARE CHECKED
Eastward Push On Stalin
grad Is Definitely Stop
ped, Say Soviets
Bv EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW. Monday, July 20
//Pi—Russian troops have
evacuated Voroshilovgrad,
only 100 miles above Rostov,
but a stiffened Red army still
was gaining ground at Voro
nezh to the north and was
lowing up another main Ger
man drive south of Millerovo,
the Soviets announced early
today.
The loss of Voroshilovgrad,
claimed bv the Germans Fri
dav' meant that a German drive
southeastward along the Donets
river was threatening to merge with
a Nazi column striking south of
Millerovo along the railway leading
to Kustov, the key Red army south
| evil anchor protecting the Caucasus.
[ The Soviets had announced yes
terday that United States and Brit
ish tanks as well as planes weie
bolstering the Russian lines in the
imperilled south where an east
ward Nazi push toward Stalin
grad definitely had been checked
The Germans, blocked in eas -
ward thrusts toward the Volga
from Vorot.ezh and Millerovo,
wheeled southward along the rail
way toward Rostov while a sup
porting column 60 miles to the
southwest swept into Voroshilov
grad.
The midnight communique said
ihal. aside from the loss of Voro
‘Continued on l'ase Eight: Col. G)
EASTERN MOTORIST
‘PERMANENT GOAT’
S. A. Herzog Declares Car
Owners To Get Less Gas
Under New Plan
NEW YORK. July 19-u'i-Sol A.
Herzog, general counsel of the
Eastern States Gasoline conference
said today that the Eastern moior
,st- instead of being merelv an “ex
perimental guinea pig. ’'had be
come a “permanent goaf under
fhc permanent coupon rationing of
gasoline which becomes effective
vV eanesday.
“If Die motorist thinks he is ^o
mg to get more gasoline under the
petmanent rationing plan, he is be
ing badly fooled." Herzog said.
The possibilities are that he Is
K? to set Jess We can not see
L it is going to be of any genuine
benefn to tne motorists. .
Predicting that ‘‘there will be a
real orgy of buying"’ on Wednes
day, Herzog said motorists would
use at once their eight coupons to
fO'Vvo months supply in the
eai that the four gallons per cou
pon might be cut to two gallons
per unit.
dc sa'.A 'he gasoline situation in
m!'101. c'l'cs °f the eastern ration*
"i araa was acute although it was
Ti so 5tict hi Virginia and Georgia.
f"as an acutal sutplus of gas
oI,nc U1 Florida, he said.
Huzog said the OPA had reject*
jian PPterence proposed rationing
,o he limit of deliveries
amount1 e!'S 31 70 per cent of the
month lastCClVed the same
that it „^ year on grounds
a distm dT ^possible to connect
couioi rfUtlon system based upon
weather
Notn i. ^RECAST:
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FASTER*"' yesterday):
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7 mean gn’ " ' maximum 101; minimum
normal 79.
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_ Bombs Blanket Allied Ship In Port Moresby
b£mbs,f£onl JaP war planes are blanketing this United Nations ship
S' g e harbor at Port Moresby, New Guinea, shortly after her arrival in a convoy
bearing troops and supplies. The Jap airmen raided the harbor before the ships
could be unloaded. This scene is from a news reel.
Chinese Break Jap Grip
On Vital Kiangsi Line
CHUNGKING. July 19—W—A
smashing comeback against the
major Japanese drives in Cheki
ang and Kiangsi provinces was re
ported today by the Chinese high
command, which announced re
capture of the Chekiang seaports
of Wenchow and Juian and break
ing of the invaders’ grip on the
Kiangsi railway along a 15-mile
stretch by seizure of Iyang and
Hengfeng.
The Japanese pulled out after
suffering heavy losses at all four
points, a Chinese communique said,
and the Chinese seized large quani
ties of booty.
All Chungking was elated at the
news, hailing it as the best in
weeks.
The Japanese took Wenchow on
July 11, following up quickly with
capture of nearby Juian, in a drive
which extended clear across coas
tal Chekiang province southward
from the Japanese base at Hang
chow, just south of Shanghia.
The Chinese command announced
that the counter-attacking Chinese
broke into both cities on Friday,
killing many Japanese and driving
back northward the survivors who
had held the ports less than six
days.
The Chinese- still are sorting the
supplies the Japanese left behind.
In Kiangsi. -which adjoins Chek
iang on the west, the Chinese com
munique said the Japanese fled
from Hengfeng yesterday, setting
fire to the town and breaking
through a Chinese cordon to es
cape eastward toward Shangjao,
35- miles away.
The Chinese quickly reoccupied
the town and extinguished the fires,
lyang, another rail town 15 miles
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. It)
TIRE RATIONING
TO HIT TRUCKS
Many ‘Unessential' Carri
ers To Be Refused New
And Recapped Rubber
WASHINGTON, July 19— (IP) —
Tire rationing rules were revised
today to prevent beer, soft drinks
and other "unessential” trucks
from getting new or recapped tires
after July 28.
Also cut from the eligibility list
by action of the office of price
administration were all privately
operated trucks carrying alcoholic
beverages, tobacco, candy, flowers
furs, radios, confections, musical
instruments and other luxury
goods—unless the hauling of such
items is only incidental to the main
service performed by the truck.
Only trucks engaged in services
“essential to the war effort or to
the public health and safety” will
be entitled to new tires or recaps
after the effective date.
OPA’s announcement said the
curb was necessitated by “increas
ing evidence that quotas will not
provide for the needs of all those
on present eligibility lists.”
The amendment also rules out
trucks used to furnish "incidental
maintenance services”— such as
the cleaning of an office building.
In addition, the amendment
gives local ration boards authority
to eliminate from eligibility some
users on “List A”, which includes
the most essential transportation
functions. Trucks carrying raw
materials, semi-manufactured or
finished goods, including farm
products and foods, may be rec
ognized as eligible only if the serv
ices they perform are essential to
the war effort or to the public
health and safety.
At present such vehicles could
be denied tires only if the local
(Comimieri on Page Plight; Col. 8)
7 DIE IN FLOODS
IN PENNSYLVANIA
‘Flash’ Deluge Hits North
Central Portion Of State;
Untold D ama g e
RIDGWAY, Pa., July 19—(A*)—At
least seven persons lost their lives
in a “flash” flood which devastated
towns and villages, made hundreds
of persons homeless and caused un
told property damage over a wide
area in north central Pennsylvania
today.
Homes, business buildings and
bridges were wrecked. Some war
rushed factories were heavily dam
aged. Communities were isolated,
and the Red Cross and other relief
agencies went into action to fight
disease hazards and take care of
the homeless.
In the .town of Port Allegany,
near the New York state border,
more than 150 people attending a
conference in the Free Methodist
church were rescued from tree
tops, roofs and floating wreckage.
Fire broke out in the church and
destroyed it and the adjoining par
sonage.
Virtually every business building
in Port Allegany was flooded by
water ranging in depth from three
to twenty feet. Coast Guardsmen,
here to do rescue work, reported
it was 40 feet deep in the bottom
lands.
Mrs. Thomas R. Clark, wife of
Coroner Thomas R. Clark of Mc
Kean county who reported five
deaths in the town, said her hus
band told her entry was made into
Port Allegany by stringing a rope
across the river and going across
in row boats.
“The property damage was enor
mous,” she said, with gas, electric
ity and water cut off. Water was
taken across to the people in five
gallon cans from tank trucks.”
The flood cut a swath through
McKean, Potter and Elk counties.
At Johnsonburg in Elk county, the
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4)
poweTshortage
NOW PREDICTED
Conservation And More
Effective Utilization Must
Be Undertaken
IP 1 POWER SHORTAGE FW
WASHINGTON, July 19—OP)—1The
Brookings Institution predicted to
day an eventual power shortage
“sufficient to impede the war pro
duction effort” unless “conserva
tion and more effective power utili
zation is undertaken in the imme
diate future.”
A report prepared for the pri
vate research organization by Dr.
Louis Marlio, French economist
and engineer, now a member of
its staff, estimated power require
ments in 1944—if the war continued
that long—would be nearly 50 per
cent in ex-fcess of those in 1941.
“In spite of all the efforts that
may be put forth in the technical
and administrative field, and with
the curtailment of domestic con
sumption, the existing generating
capacity will not be able to meet
the added requirements,” Marlio
said.
“The increase- in power demand
in the present year has been mod
erate due to the fact that the coun
try is in a period of transition from
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 2)
Joint Army-Navy Flag
To Be Given Factories
WASHINGTON, July 19—(IP)—A
joint Army-Navy flag, it was an
nounced today, hereafter will be
awarded to war factories with out
standing production records.
In the past, the armed services
have recognized such plants sep
arately. the Navy awarding a “E”
pennant (for excellence) and the
Army an “A” one.
The joint award will be a swal
low-tailed flag with a white capi- j
tal “E” in a yellow wreath of |
oak and laurel leaves on a verti- j
cally divided blue and red back-;
ground. “Army” will be on the !
red background and “Navy” on the j
blue.
NEW SUPPLYllNES
UNDER DISCUSSION
Japs In Aleutians Now
Make Other Routes To
Russia Imperative
WASHINGTON. July 19—(/P—The
Foreign Policy Association said
today that Japanese occupation of
western Aleutian islands and
threats to existing communication
lines between the United States
and Russia made imperative quick
development of other supply lines.
The association, a private re
search organization, said there
were three potential routes, “short
er and less vulnerable to Axis'^iTS
tacks than the present routes to
north Russia and through the Per
sian Gulf.” It said the three were:
“A warplane ferry service from
the west coast of the United States,
via Alaska, to Russia, and thence
to China.
“A northern Burma road, which
would link the railhead above Ed
monton, Canada, with the railhead
at Irkutsk, in Siberia, by motor
road. Each of the two segments
could have its sea terminal on the
100-mile-wide Bering strait, where
they could in turn be linked by al
ternative sea and air ferry services
which could keep this route, opened
all the year around.
“The northern sea route, opened
by the Soviet Union in 1932, and
linked with the three principal Si
berian waterways—the ob. o the
the Lena and the Yenisei—each
several thousand miles in length
northern sea route is the shortest
sea passage from European Russia
to far eastern Siberia. The distance
from Murmansk, where British and
American supplies have been de
livered during the past year, to
Vladivostok via the Artie and Ber
ing strait is 5,671 miles by ship,
and has the great advantage of
not being exposed to submarine or
plane attack over molt of its
course.
BRITISH ADVANCE IN EGYPT
/ON ALL THREE FRONTS; AXIS
COUNTERA HACKS REPULSED
City Is Blacked Out For Raid
As Alert Is Sounded By Sirens
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Army Reveals Suspicious
Movements Off Shore Re
sponsible For Alarm
NEW YORK, July 19— <£>> —A
combined Eastern Defense Com-'
rrrand, first Army and Eastern Sea
Frontier statement today said that
“a report of suspicious activity on.
the coast near Wilmington, N. C.’’
caused the sounding of an air raid
alert at 3:40 a. m. in that area.
The statement added that investi
gation disclosed no enemy activity
of any kind.
The text of the statement fol
lows :
“As a result of a report of sus
picious activity on the coast near
Wilmington, N. C., early today, an
air raid alert was sounded at 3:49
a. m. and Wilmington and Wrights
ville Beach were blacked out for
more than an hour as a precau
tionary measure. Investigation dis
. closed no enemy activity of any
kind.’’ 3
DR. ATbARTON
DIES IN NASHVILLE
Former Pastor Of Temple
Baptist Church Here
Succumbs At 75
I
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 19—(IP)
i Dr. Arthur James Barton, 75, for
more than 35 years chairman of
the social service committee of the
Southern'Baptist convention, died
here today.
Ordained as a minister in Oc
tober, 1888, Dr. Barton had been
pastor of churches in Batesville, I
Ark., Texarkana, Ark., Waco, Tex.
Alexandria, La., Lexington, Term.,
and Nashville. He resigned a pas
torate at Wilmington, N. C., last
October because of poor health, aft
er a tenure of eleven years.
Dr. Barton was for a number of
years chairman of the legislative
1 committee of the Anti-Saloon
1 League of America.
Occupied France Raided
By RAF Bombers In Wide
Sweep Along Coast Line
LONDON, July 19—l/P)—Bos
ton bombers attacked German
®*%b,jeclives in the Lille and Be
thune occupied areas this aft
ernoon while squadrons of Brit
ish Spitfires and Hurricanes
dived on German warships off
the Breton coast, hitting the
bridge of one armed vessel and
bombing a new type of enemy
mine sweeper.
Two Bostons and one fighter
were missing from the sweep in
which power stations at Choc
ques and Mazingarbe were
also hit, authoritative sources
said. A German fighter was
destroyed.
The British bombed the pow
er stations from a height of
only 50 feet, and the walls and
main buildings collapsed, the
air ministry said.
RAF fighters made covering
sweeps over the Pas De Ca
lais coastal district, and Ger
man fighters striking back at
southern England fired on two
barrage balloons, one of which
crashed in flames.
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SISTER WAACS
FORT DES MOINES, la.. July 19.
—(JT)—The first — and probably the
only — sister enrollees in the WAAC
arrived among the first contingent
today. They are Edith M. Toffaletti.
27, and her sister Lillian, 25, both
of Port Tampa City, Fla.
F. R. May Step Into Wage
Control Problem Shortly
WASHINGTON, July 19—UP)—An
informed official indicated today
that President Roosevelt might
step into the muddled wage control
problem to bring about agreement
within his administration on the
question.
The suggestion of White House
action came from an official, un
willing' to be quoted by name, as
the office of price administration
sought means to bulwark the uni
versal price ceiling against the ef
fects of an expected surge of wage
increases following the War Labor
board’s 44-cent daily increase to
the workers of “Little Steel.”
He quoted one of the highest ad
ministration figures, whose name
was withheld, as follows:
“WLB has one wage policy, OPA
has another, and War Manpower
commission has got one of its own.
Only the President can reconcile
them.”
OPA officials said general appli
cation of the “Little Steel” wage
formula would cause an increase of
“several billion dollars” in the na
tion’s purchasing power. Those
(Continued on Page Eight; Coi.
Bad News
Pictured at the . telephone in
Washington is Hjalmar Procope,
Finnish minister to the U. S.,
shortly after he received notice
from the State Department that
Finland must close all her con
sular offices in the U. S. Finland
curtailed the rights of TJ. S. con
suls last year in a similar action.
This is a phonephoto. — Central
Press.
‘GASTON’LAUNCHED
AT SHIPYARDS HERE
Twenty-First Liberty Ves
sel Christened By Mrs.
A. C. Brown
Under a burning mid-afternoon
sun, the S. S. William Gaston,
named in honor of a state supreme
court jurist, slid into the waters
of the Cape Fear river at 3:30
o'clock Sunday being the twenty
first ship launched by the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company.
Mrs. Alexander Crosby Brown of
Newport News, Va.. a daughter of
General Foreman E. S. Baysder.
of the hull outfitting division of
the N. C. Shipbuilding company,
sponsored the 10.000-ton vessel.
Miss Clara Louise Dugger of
Denbigh. Va., was her maid of
honor and Mrs. Lindsey A. Fowler
of Newport News, her matron of
honor.
The ship is named for Judge Wil
liam Gaston, a state supreme
court jurist and the author of the
official state song, “The Old North
State Forever.”
According to data compiled by
Louis T. Moore, acting executive
secretary of the Greater Wilming
ton chamber of commerce, Judge
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
WPB RESTWCTS
USE OF COPPER
Sales Of Uniform Insignia
And Service Emblems
To Be Curtailed
WASHINGTON. July 19- UP! —
Because copper is scarce, the War
Production Board today restricted
its use for uniform insignia, and
limited sales of the insignia in an
effort to halt the practice by wom
en of wearing Army and Navy em
blems as costume jewelry.
WPB said a curtailed use of cop
per in cap and uniform insignia
would save 300 tons a year, based
on the present size of the army.
Copper still may be used to some
extent, but the order prohibited en
tirely the use of aluminum, nickel,
nickel silver, chromium, and some
other metals. Most silver-colored
insignia are made of nickel silver
or chromium, and with these pro
hibited officers face the prospect!
of buying sterling silver in|igfiia.
Copper may be used as an alley
in gold colored insignia, but only
up to 65 per cent by weight in
fasteners and up to 85 per cent
in insignia fronts.
The sales restriction permits
sales only by Army and Marine
corps post exchanges and Navy
ship service stores.
Retail stores, tailors, and other
who have handled insignia in the
past may dispose of stocks on hand
but sales may be made only to
persons who present official war
department identification.
Because of the lower mark-up
in post exchanges, WPB estimated ,
(Continued on Paje Eifbt; Col. S) i
r -
Citizens’ Defense Corps
Goes AH Out To Pro
tect Population
For «the first time in it's history
of more than two hundred years,
Wilmington was plunged into a real
air raid alarm and blackout at 3:49
o’clock yesterday morning.
According to army information, a
report of suspicious activity along
the coast near Wilmington, caused
the sounding of an air raid alert,
and officials declared "it was no
practice alarm.”
Acting on orders from the New
Hanover county control room, the
four big sirens in the city, began
their mournful wail signalling the
blackout and air raid alert, at 3:49
o’clock.
Within a very few minutes, air
raid -wardens throughout the city
began their work, assisted by the
auxiliary policemen and firemen.
Cries of ‘douse that light,’ ‘pull that
car over,’ and many other orders
could be heard in the already dark
ened streets.
The Tide Water Power company
pulled the switches on the street
lighting- circuits about four minutes
after the alarm, and ihe town settled
down to it’s first tense vigil of wait
ing, waiting, — for death to come
raining from the sk\es.
The resort of Wrightsville Beach
was plunged into a blackout im
mediately preceeding Wilmington,
defense officials revealed.
At the order of the country con
trol room, the police radio station
was ordered off the air.
Guards were more than doubled
around the Post Office, which
houses the information-filter center,
and their sub-machine guns present
ed a formidable appearance to the
average citizen.
For one hour and three minutes,
the entire city was lost on the face
of the earth, as even the tiniest
cigarette gleam was extinguished.
Air raid wardens could be heard,
but not seen in the inky blackness,
still pursuing their task of keeping
the civilian population in it’s proper
and safe place.
At 4:52 o'clock, the long steady
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 5)
VOTElXPECTED
ON TAX MEASURE
Final Ballot May Be Cast
Today On Mammoth
Revenue Bill
WASHINGTON, July 19—Itfl-The
House leadership proposes to put
to final vote tomorrow a tax bill
which wo''ld boost this year's total
federal revenues to $23,000,000,000,
largest in the nation’s history.
One bit of action, however,
stands in the way of a final vote
that would send the measure to the
senate. A vote must be taken first
on an amendment proposed by
Representative Knutson (R.-Minn.)
to increase the excess profits rate
from the 87 1-2 per cent recom
mended by the Ways and Means
committee to 90 per cent and set
the normal and surtax levy on cor
porations at 40 per cent instead ot
raising it to the 45 per cent level
proposed by the committee.
Knutson demanded the change in
the $6,143,900,000 bill on the ground
that the excess profits and normal
surtax rates would impose undue
burden on the smaller corpora
tions. But others. Rep Cooper (D.
Tenn.) among them, insisted Knut
son’s proposal would work out to
the benefit of “large and wealthy”
corporations instead of the little
ones.
Leaders were busy over the
weekend lining ;p votes against the
Knutson amendment. With this pro
posal ■ out of the way. the House
would be in position to snap the
bill through a final vote.
Senate leaders have indicated
they did not expect the tax bill
would come to a vote in that
branch before late next month.
A $1,857,000,000 catch-all appro
priation bill, passed by both
branches but with a difference be
tween the Senate and House ver
sion, is expected to receive final
approval by Tuesday Conferees
have agreed informally that a
$120,000,000 item in the bill would
be sufficient to operate the Office
of Price Administration this fiscal
year. That sum was $45,000,000
larger than the amount voted by
the House, but $5,000,000 below the
Senate figure.
House representatives on the con
ference committee agreed to reten
tion of a Senate prohibition against
use of any of the OPA fund for
subsidy payments, and of Senate!
iContinued on Page Eight; Col, 6) ,
k
Auchinleck’s
Desert Army
StrikingHard
Action Somewhat Slower
However, Than Pace
Set Last Week
AUSTRALIANS HOLDING
Keep Positions Won Dur
ing The Last Few Days
Along The Coast
By STEPHEN BARBER
CAIRO, Egypt, July 19. —«
(fl5)—British advances in all
three of the main battle areas
along the 40-mile front of the
western desert, where th»
fate of Egypt hangs in the
balance of shifting give-and
take fighting, were reported
today.
At the same time, the Im
perial troops, commanded by
General Sir Claude J. E.
Auchinleck, threw back Axis
counter-attacks by tanks and
infantry in the center of the bat
tlefield some 75 miles west of Alex
andria.
The scale of fighting yesterday
and last night was greatly dimin
ished from the terrific action
which raged across the war-churn
ed sands last week but the Im
perials, Australians, South Afri
cans and Indians, took advantage
of the comparative lull to improve
their hard won positions.
In the northern sector, along
the coast and a few miles inland,
the Australians remained in full
possession of positions won during
the week. Further, they occupied
points on Makhad — (Cushion) —
Ridge, which is the first of two
ridges south of Tel El Eisa (“Hill
of Jesus”*, a point ten miles west
of El Alamein where the German
rush to the Nile and the Middle
East was halted.
South Africans In the same sec*
tor continued patrol activities.
In the center, Indian soldiers
were reported making a slight for*
(Continued on Page Two; Col, 2)
RUBBERSHORTAGE
CALLED MYTHIC ,
E. E. Simpson, House Coun
sel, Declares ‘There Real
ly Ys No Lack’
WASHINGTON, July 19—(Al—El
liot E. Simpson, independent rub
ber dealer and counsel for a house
subcommittee investigation the
rubber situation, asserted in a
statement today that “there really
is no rubber shortage.”
“It is merely ‘mythical’,” said
Simpson, whose opinions on the
rubber situation often have been in
sharp contrast with those govern
ment officials.
Simpson described himself as
‘all-out” for synthetic rubber “but
only as good insurance.”
Explaining why he called the rub
ber shortage “mythical,” he said
the stockpile of crude rubber in the
United States was the greatest in
history, that “millions of tons” of
scrap rubber were available, and
the Western Hemisphere contain
ed "many times more crude rub
ber in mature trees ready to be
tapped than is available in trees in
former far eastern rubber sour
ces.”
‘Heat Wave’ Hits City
i4s Temperature Climbs
To Peak Of 101 Degrees
Wilmington has been swelter
ing in what the U. S. Weather
Bureau officially termed ‘a heat
wave,’ for the past two days, it
was reported Sunday night.
Sunday’s highest temperature
reached a peak of 101 degrees,
the highest recorded reading
since July 28, 1930.
A maximum of 98 degrees was
marked Saturday and the total
of both day’s high constitutes a
‘heat wave’ officials pointed out,
as the average temperature for
the period is ten degrees above
normal.
-. as