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d~By Leased Wire Of The ^ ^ S. Wilmington Homing &tar Sr' ^_-———^ 287 " " ------------- u ■ 1 * 1 i -i — ■ - j -WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 27, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867, RAF Destroys Entire Acres Oi Millings bp, Kk Bombs On Duisburg AMERICANS IN RAID Seven 0. S. Pilots Aid Bomber Escort; One Fails To Return LONDON. July. 26.—(/P) Whole acres of buildings were wiped out by more than 50 Si “block destroying bombs last night at Duisburg huge German railway and Suing center, and this af oEtto RAF destroyed he legend of a new Nazi super-plane in a mne-to-three fighter victory over northern France. . Seven American air force fighter pilots accompanied £ RAF on the daylight “®„ One did not return. The e ‘ ‘ • „p disclosing their parti s the first official word ZtfgWer Pilots are operating from the British Isle, A previous com Inique on July 1 "a'1 revealed bomber participation In raids on German-occupied territory. n-vit fires were left raging in the’hirgest river port in the world, ,t Duisliurg-Kuhrort. at the conflu ence of the Ruhr and Rhine rivers adjacent to Duisburg proper. Single (Continued on Pese Three: Col. 5) -_V HIT-RUN DRIVER KILLS DAVIS MAN Private Aubrey Gray, Mich ie,Tenn., Dies From In juries ; Couple Held Private Aubrey A. Gray. 24. of Michie. Term., a member of Bat ten- 'F\ 514th Coast Artillery AAu of Camp Davis, was instant ]y killed about 5 o'clock Sunday morning when struck by a hit-an-1 run automobile, allegedly driven by Roy Long, of Old Dock, a civil ipn employe at the camp, it was announced last night by the camp public relations officer. IThe bodv was found laying be side the highway a few minutes after the accident, and Long and h;s companion, Mable Carlisle of lloll'- Ridge, were apprehended about an hour later. According to state highway patrolmen who inve*tigated the hanuening, Long is said to have narked his car about 4 miles from the scene, and he and his compan ion walked to Hampstead, a few miles further. From there, they are alleged to have taken a bus fo'- Wilmington. Both Long and Miss Carlisle are held without bail pending a coro ner s inquest which is set for to night at 8 o'clock in Burgaw. Lo information was available on 'he soldier’s survivors or the fun eral arrangements. -V luL. DEMERRITT DIES AT DAVIS utafl Member Of Officer Candidate School Suc cumbs In Hospital 1 "I'diel Hubert K. DeMerrilt, 48, e 'l,'!Vr ."f Massachusetts, died at 8 ' k Saturday night at the Camp now SUlti0n '1(JSf,ical- after an ill „un- °l ,abf’!lt 11 ,nonth» the cam*? j ■!' lelation.s <ifficei. announced last night. »£ thToff‘ritt "as SECretary the ant- Candidate Division of Can,. .1"aircraft school, and came to ah-.-ut ,/u’s from Fort Monroe, Va., three months ago. ' spent- 25 years of active tho ai-nry. Piste 41 'angements ate incom drew's ,, e -°dj' is now at An cainj, e* ot^Uai'J’- Officials at the body ivu,|]jSse<1 the belief that the Faticmaj ^ buried in Arlington Cemetery. J Doniel Retains Lead n Texas Primary Race Jex- July 26— L7p) ~ totr,| If,t,. -tha." 90 per Cent 0t t,ie PHn,a,.’ , !" Saturday’s democratic 0’Da„iei a,,"latet1- Senator W. Lee '•( u,„ , Sl 11 "®tained 48 per cent diu-ii,,. ■' Cut pattered returns 1 u- |j,,. , 'f a|tei'mion indicate that lv li'f.m -SU,t " in vai-y hut slight 1 this percentage. I _rviaaiea U. Dive Bomber Returns To Carrier T+'-r’-idlYe bomber has just returned to its carrier somewhere in the c tic. Its tail is riddled by bullets after an attack against the Japs. The pilot sits in tne cockpit unharmed. Immediately after damaged planes land, the repair crew on e carrier goes to work and they are put in top shape again within a short time, ^ong training makes these mechanics so efficient that their speed in fixing aircraft appears miraculous to anyone watching them at work.—Official U. S. Navy Photo. Allies Repeatedly Smash At Enemy In New Guinea GENERAL MACARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, July 26— UP) —The battle around Buna and Gona where Japanese have made their latest lodgements threatening Port Moresby contin ued all day Saturday, with Allied bombers and fighters repeatedly swooping upon enemy positions, an Allied communique announced to day. At the same time the Japanese made their first attack of the war on Townsville, a city of 25,000 known as “the capital of the north” in Australia, and made their first night raid on Darwin. The Townsville raid represented the deepest enemy aerial penetra tion in Australian theater so far. The Allied airmen also raided Lae, established Japanese base on the northeast New Guinea coast where they scored hits on the air drome, and scouted Rabaul in New Britain where they encountered 15 zero defenders and engaged in a furious fight, shooting down one and suffering no losses themselves. The Americans and Australians lost one plane in their almost con tinuous assaults around Buna and Gona, where the Japanese landed about 2,500 men last week. But they shot down two enemy defend ing planes and damaged a third. Gona village is located on Gona or Holnicote Bay about 20 miles northwest of Buna. Both are sep arated from Port Moresby, 100 tains and almost pathless jungle. Townsville was prepared for its raid by a Japanese reconnaissance flight May 1, and all the bombs from the four planes fell wide of their mark. The communique said there was no damage and no cas ualties. This city, on the Coral Sea coast behind the great barrier reef, is (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) _\T__ NEW PLEBE CLASS BEGINS ARMY LIFE Largest First Year Group To Enter West Point Be gins Training Today WEST POINT, N. Y., July 26—W —The largest class of plebes ever to enter the United States Military Academy will answer their first reveille tomorrow and begin the long, hard climb to the gold bars of a second lieutenant in the United States Army. From then on until June of 1946 these stalwart lads from every corner of the 48 states, from the Regular Army and National Guard. Congressional and Presidential ap pointees, will maneuver, study and drill. And when they receive their presidential certificates commis sioning them as lieutenants in the greatest army the United States ever has put in the field, each will have lost his civilian slouch and unmilitary manners and will be every inch an office” and a gentle man. Somewhere along the route ap (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) HAMBURG RIOTING MOSCOW, July 26— (IP) — Tass, official Russian news agency, reported today, with out giving its source, that a crowd of dock workers 'at the Germaf port of Hamburg had smashed provision stores and fought a Gestapo detachment sent to restore order. Hit by brickbats, Tass said, the police opened fire, killing “several dozen” workers, and made many arrests. Hull Speaks Seated before an array of micro phones in Washington, Secretary of State Hull is pictured during his speecli in which he dismissed the war and the final peace to fol- ■ low. He said that world-wide policing, by force if necessary, would be needed to balk any further attempts by Axis powers to enslave free men. Specifically, he asked for a world court to in sure the workings of the Atlantic Charter. This is a phoneplioto.— Central Press. JAPS WHISPER HATE IN ‘THIS IS JAPAN’ Nipponese Reveal Aversion To Foreigners, Says Max Hill, Writer For AP Editor’s Note: Max Hill, who was chief of the Associated Press Bureau in Tokyo when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, tells in the following dispatch of his internment before be ing released with other U. S. nationals for exchange with Japanese nationals in Portu guese East Africa. BY MAX HILL LOURENCO MARQUES, Portu guese East Africa, July 26—UP)— “American! This is Japan!” From the cold draughty corri dor of the Sugamo prison in Tokyo a sullen guard whispered his hatred of foreigners through the peep (Continued on Page Three; Col. <>) NEW SPOTTER POST TO BEGIN ACTIVITY Highest Observation Hut In State To Open Tuesday Atop Local Hotel Tlie highest Aircraft Warning Service observation post in North Carolina will be activated Tuesday noon, July 28, with the opening of the post on the roof of the Cape Fear hotel. A glassed-in hut has been built on the nine-story build ing to serve as a shelter for the recently organized corps of observ ers. Overlooking the city, river and adjacent country-side, the new post is perfectly located; for the detec tion of any aircraft in the vicinity. It will be manned by volunteer civilian observers. 24 hours a day. seven days a week. (Continued on Pane Three; Col. D SOLONSOPTOMISTIC OVER FARM RUBBER Believe They Have Enough Votes To Override FDR If He Disapproves WASHINGTON, .Tilly 26.— (IP) — Congressmen who voted to establish a separate government agency to encourage the manufacture of syn thetic rubber from farm products said today they believed they had the votes to override a veto if President Roosevelt disapproved their project. Though none would be quoted by name, this appeared to be the con census of farm bloc members push ing- the idea. They conceded, though, it might take several days to get a quorum in house and senate, for many senators and representative.-; have gone home to hear what the voters are talking about. The President has not expressed himself directly on the farm rubber bill, but his war production chief, Donald Nelson, minced no words on two occasions in telling- senators he opposed any division of WPB’s au thority over the production of so es sential a material. Vacations were out for members of the Senate Finance committee, which tomorrow begins its second week of hearings on the house-ap proved tax bill. Seated like a court on a raised platform in an air-cooled committee room, the 21 committee members will hear from represents tives of the New York Board of Trade, the New York City Teachers union, and various tax attorneys. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 51 Argentina’s Foreign Policy Is Unchanged BUENOS AIRES, July 26—f/P)— Although it is now six months since Argentina and other American na tions signed the Rio accord recom mending a severance of diplomat ice relations with the Axis, this na tion’s foreign policy today is the same as before that conference and there is no indication that it will change. If anything, Argentine - United States relations visibly have cool ed, while Argentina-Axis relations remain about on the same basis despite the Axis torpedoing of three Argentine ships. With the aid of a “State of siege” which handily muzzles press and public comment on the belligerent issues now sweeping the world, President Ramon S. Castillo’s “pol icy of prudence,” or isolationism, still prevails. Argentia’s rulers lend an ear to the radicals (liberals), socialists, and other pro - democratic bodies demanding closer collaboration (Continued on Pare Two; Col. S) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA — Continued rather warm today, widely scattered thundershowers, most in afternoon. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 78: 7:30 a. m. 81: 1:30 p. m. 86; 7:30 p. m. 82; maximum 88; minimum 7€; mean 82; normal 79. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 95; 7:30 a. m. 85; 1:30 p. m. 68; 7:30 p. m. 77. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month, 3.60 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 9:13a. 4:02a 9:48p. 4:15p Masonboro Inlet_ 6:55a. 1:00a 7:34p. l:07p Sunrise 5:20a: sunset 7:17p; moon rise 7:14p; moon set 5:04a. k (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4J MESAURE DRAFTED FOR CARGO PLANES Bill Ready For Introduction In Senate; Would Pro vide For Big Ships WASHINGTON, July 26 — A measure creating a military sup ply board to direct the immediate construction of a fleet of cargo carrying airplanes was drafted to day by Senators Lee (D-Okla.' and Johnson (D-Colo.) for intro duction in the Senate tomorrow. The primary purpose of the ai* fleet would be to supply the needs of the American forces stationei in Alaska, Hawaii and on foreign soil but the planes also would be utilized to carry supplies to forces of the United Nations in all parts of the world. Asserting that something must he done at once to offset the in roads made into merchant ship ping by submarine sinkings, Lee told reporters he would seek to have the measure assigned to the Military Affairs committee for im mediate consideration. Chairman Reynolds (D-N.C.) of the Military committee said that if this course were followed he would schedule hearings at which Henry J. Kaiser, West Coast ship builder, Andrew Jackson Higgins New Orleans ship builder and aviation experts and military of ficials would be called for testi mony. Kaiser recently proposed that nine ship building yards be as signed to construct flying boat similar to the 70-ton craft “Mars” built by the Glenn L. Martin com pany of Baltimore, and Lee said the proposed measure would make such a program possible. .(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 1), Nazis Biting |*ill Deeper “jib Rostov ft - intensifying Attempts To Force Don River In Stride Toward Caucasus FIERCE FIGHT RAGING Russians Claim Heavy Los ses On Attacking Enemy Troops; Hundreds Killed By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Monday, July 27 —(TP)—German tanks and in fantry are biting deeper still into Rostov and intensifying their attempts to force the Don river in their stride to ward the Caucasus and the Volga, the Russians an nounced early today. "In the Rostov area fierce fighting is raging in the out skirts of the city,” a midnight communique said. "Our troops are inflicting heavy losses on the attacking enemy forces. One small group of Soviet infantry alone in one day with anti-tank guns, machineguns and incendiary bottles destroyed nine German tanks and killed hun dreds of Hitlerites. “In another sector the enemy hurled large tank forces into bat tle. Despite tremendous losses the enemy succeeded in advancing.” Despite press dispatches telling of German crossings of the Don east of Rostov, the communique said the Red army still was fight ing stubbornly at Novocherkassk, 20 miles northeast of Rostov, and at Tsimlyansk, 120 miles to the east: This implied there was little change in the situation. Of the Tsimlyansk area the com munique said: “Our troops contin ue to fight stubborn defensive bat tles, repelling numerous German attempts to cross to the southern banks of the Don. “Our gunners are inflicting heavy blows on the enemy.” But the Russians said the Ger mans were moving up fresh divi sions to the imperilled Don. Two of these, the 71st and 346th, came from France and Holland, the com munique said. Soviet airmen and anti - aircraft gunners attempting to slow the German tide were credited with destroying 299 Nazi planes in the week ending Saturday. Russian los ses were listed as 137 planes for the same period. A large Red air force last night (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -i GERMANS DIGGING IN ALONG DESERT FRONT; RAF CONTINUES RAIDS 60,000 CLAMOR FOR 2ND FRONT Thousands Jam Trafalgar Square, Shout Approval Of New War Move LONDON, July 26—(#!—A crowd which the British Press Associa tion estimated at 600,000 jammed into Trafalgar Square today and shouted approval of immediate op ening of a second front even though told it might mean another battle of Britain. Dr. Leslie Haden Guest, Laborite member of Commons from Isling ton, said: “It might mean another battle of Britain or an attempted inva sion of Britain and hardships such as the people of these islands have not had to endure before."’ Are you ready for all this?” he asked. A might “yes” arose from the crowd. Meanwhile, at Pontypool, Ernest Bevin. Labor ministered and mem ber of the war cabinet, delcared in a speech that those who shouted for a second front were "feeding” Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels by creat ing division in the country. “Our freinds of the left who shout this slogan are creating the very condition we all want to avoid. . . don’t talk to me about a second front but help the government all you can so there shall be no short age anywhere,” he pleaded. Bevin said Russia “might be driven back and lose territory but I am confident Hitler will not brsak the Russian armies.” 3 P 1 ANDRE PHILIP IN ! FW LONDON, July 26—Iff)—Professor Andre Philip, French socialist and a leader of underground resistance to the German occupation of France, arrived in Britain today to cooperate with the De Gaulle na tional committee. Philip, 40-year old former mem ber of the Chamber of Deputies for Lyons, in the unoccupied zone, has been hunted by the Gestapo throughout France for several months, the fighting French said. He came here at the invitation of De Gaulle, and immediately gave him a detailed account of the activities of undercover opposition to the Germans in occupied re gions. ! -V NON-ESSENTIAL SPENDING CUT Congress Decreases Expen ditures By $1,313,983, 208, Committee Reveals WASHINGTON, July 26— OB —A joint Congressional economy com mittee, noting that it had recom mended a $1,301,075,000 reduction in non-war appropriations, report ed ioday that Congress had gone even further and cut “non-essen tial” expenditures by $1,313,913,206. At that, “the possibilities for economies have bee ■> no more than scratched,” declared the report, released by Senator Byrd (D.-Va.), chairman of the Senate - House joint committee on reduction of non-essential federal expenditures. Cash savings on 1943 appi jpria loan authorizations were reduced by $10,000,000. The committee had urged reductions of $1,131,075,000 “Of course,” the report said, “the committee does not claim sole credit for these reductions. “Some of the agencies them selves cooperated in bringing them about. The budget bureau has worked diligently in reducing non essential expenditures and in par ing down budget recommendations. “Many members of Congress, as individuals and as members of committees have made invaluable (Continued on Pace Two; Col. 1) Hawaiian Governor Chosen by President Roosevelt to be governor of the territory of Hawaii is Ingram M. Stainbaek, 59, present U. S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii. He will replace Governor Joseph B. Poindexter whose term expired some months ago. This is a phonephoto.— Central Press. OFFICERSHUNTING THREE SABOTEURS Chase For Men Thought To Be In U. S. Underway Throughout N. Y. NEW YORK, July 26—(M—Law enforcement authorities were mo bilized into action today upon a Suffolk county report that three men, resembling three Nazi sabo teurs who might be in this coun try. were seen in Bridgehampton. Bridgehampton is approximately 20 miles west of Amagansett on Long Island’s south shore where four of the eight saboteurs now on trial in Washington landed from a submarine. Only yesterday, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of In vestigation, warned of the three men, Walter Kappe, Rheinhold Ru dolf Barth and Joseph Schmidt, the FBI head said the three were known to have had extensive train ing in sabotage. The warning did not say that the men definitely were in this country, however. Lieut. Harray H. Wright of Nas sau county police headquarters said the report that the three men were seen in Bridgehamptjbn this morning was given to him by tele phone for relay to New York by Suffolk county authorities. Wright said he was told that a United States merchant m./k.e in spector, whose name was withheld by authorities, was hailed by the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -V Chinese Claim Recapture Of Number Of Points In Chekiang-Kiangsi Region CHUNGKING, China, July 26— <7P) —The Chinese high command, reporting wide spread attacks on Japanese positions in Kiangsi province claimed today that Chinese soldiers had broken into Ying tan and had recaptured a num ber of points in the Chekiang Kiangei border region. Yingtan, 75 miles southeast of Japanese-occupied Nan chang, was the western ter minus of the stretch of the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway operated by the Chinese before the Japanese began their drive which completed their conquest of the route. The high command said the Chinese had recaptured8 eng kiashan, Yushan and other communities in the border zone. Seaman Held Prisoner On U-Boat For 4 Days - •A. AN EAST COAST PORT, July 26—(J’i—An American seaman told of spending four days a prisoner aboard a German submarine after the raider had torpedoed his ship and then picked him up while swimming in the ocean. Archie Gibbs, 36, of Roscoe, Tex. said here that the U-boat under went an attack in the Caribbean sea while loading fresh torpedoes. He was kept below decks, howev er, ad could’t say whether the missiles were beig taken aboard or merely transferred from a stor age space on the sub. Gibbs said that at 1 a. m. June 17 the Germans opened fire with an anti-aircraft gun on the deck and two bombs exploded near the craft. He surmised that a Navy airplane had surprised the raider in the midst of the operation. Two ships were torpedoed from beneath Gibbs before he was pick ed up by the undersea raider. The loss of both bessels already has been reported by the Navy. The merchantman of which he said was sunk June 14 and the res cue vessel which picked up the crew was attacked about 24 hours (Continued on Pane T«’o: C»l. 3* ^ VERY LITTLE ACTION Occasional Exchange Of Artillery Fire Marks Last 38 Hours j _ | HIT ROMMEL’S BASES British And U. S. Forces Raid Crete And Tobruk With Explosives By HARRY CROCKETT WITH THE BRITISH ARMY AT EL ALAMEIN* July 26.— (IP) —After mid week clashes in which both sides lost heavily, a lull has come in the desert war and the Germans are furiously digging in all along this front 75 miles west of Alexandria, from El Alamein to the Qat tara depression. Action during the last 38 hours has been little more than an occasional exchange of artillery fire, day and night patrols and the drone of planes of the British and American air forces overhead as they continue to strike ;a^ Marshal Rommel’s sea and air bases. Today’s Cairo communique said the heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Force and British bombers swept across the Mediter ranean last night and attacked Crete ,and that another force struck at Tobruk again. Light bombers continued to plast er Rommel’s troop, tank and vehicle concentrations with explosives and cannonfire. Supplementary Information said fires and explosions were caused when the big raiders bombed air (Continued on P**e Three; Col. *) S.S.‘W. A. GRAHAM’ IS CHRISTENED HERE 22nd ‘Liberty Freighter’ Launched At North Carolina Shipyards With the launching of the Wil ham A. Graham at 9:30 o’clock Sun day morning, the twenty-second 10. 000-ton Liberty freighter slid down the ways at the North Carolina fcmpbuilcling- company. The Graham, named for a former governor North Carolina and secre tary of the Navy, was sponsored by Mrs. W. W. Walker of Newport n Is' *a’’ a daughter of Robert Carter, foreman of the boiler and blacksmith shops at the yards here. Mrs. Walker’s maids of honor were Miss Shirley Carter and Miss Catherine Edwards, both of New. port News. n,Mr,.TCarter was an employe of the Newport News Shipbuilding company parent organization of the shipbuilding company here 19371 1893 Until his retirement in When the yard was organized here, he was called out of retire ment to take charge of the boiler and blacksmith shops. William A. Graham, for whom the ship was named, was bom in 1804, according to data prepared by Louis T. Moore, acting execu tive secretary of the Greater Wilmington chamber of com merce. He served as a representive from Orange county in the gen eral assembly and was selected to the U. S. Senate in 1840. He was elected governor of the state in 1845 and in 1850 was ap pointed secretary of the Navy. During the war between the states, Graham was a member of the senate of the Confederacy. 4 CD NEEDS" AUXILIARY POLICE: 94 (MEN ONLY) Duties: To assist regular po lice during blackouts or air raids. Training: General Course, Fire Defense A, Gas Defense B, and 10 hours first aid. Enlisted to date: 100. Quo ta : 200. Enlistments Friday: Air Raid Wardens . t Auxiliary Police . 4 Total .i( A
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