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-g^Td By Leased Wire Of Thr _ ' remember With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR Stale and National News ^j||) BATAAN ] + ____ ESTABLISHED 1867, T*_• ___ -- Nazis Prepare For 2nd Front N^ar By Allies Sending Battle Trained Sol diers To The 'Invasion Coast’ Of France invitation is issued Goebbels Gives Hearty Wel | come To Attempt By British And U. S. n. THOMAS F. HAWKINS BERN. Switzerland, July o9_(/p)—The Germans sent battle-trained and newly-re :Leri SS Elite Guard troops wheeling down the Champs Elvsees in Pans today en Toute to the “invasion coast and to this widely-advertised gesture Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels added the declaration that the opening j>t an Allied second front would be an ad of madness. In the article in the weekly Das Reich giving the official stamp to the increasing propaganda in Ger many concerning a second front. Goebbels issued a -hearty wel come” to the British and said he hoped some Americans would join them in trying invasion. “Those MacArthurs,” he wrote, -then tor the first time would make the acquaintance of German soldiers who. although not carrying tennis rackets and golf clubs, would carry first class weapons and would bring with them a vast store of war experience collected on all the European battlefields. "They would gladly take the op portunity of making it plain to the Yankees that entrance to Europe is forbidden. He discounted the speculation ■ tot developed through the winter to the effect that Grmany would h forced to withdraw her troops from the west, at the expense of thir garrisons in the occupied (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) JAIL UE AMP’ RECOMMENDED Grand Jury Submits Report On Conditions In Coun ty Detention Cells Recommendation that the county jail be given a “general cleaning and painting”, ventilators be in stalled in the skylights and addi tional fans be provided was includ ed in the grand jury report sub mitted to Judge Luther Hamilton Wednesday, in commenting on the report, Judge Hamilton said “your report is a fair reflection of conditions existing in the various departments «f county government and I com mend you heartily for your dis patch of business pertaining di K'Ctly to the court and for your thoroughness in your investigation m the county jail and county home and other departments. I V" noj congratulate county author '!® for lelting such conditions as your reP01’t shows exist.” con^f f ?amilton ordered that chairm-f report be sent to the ™ of the county board of hW Terf the C0Unty attor ■V d the clerk of court. ffiionsUhp6St tbat these ugly con judge „bjrt re™edled speedily.” the g aid and ordered that a copy ''""g'l n,' t'aye Seven; Co). 2) EXPERTS CAUTION ON PLANE OUTPUT arn Against Expecting ‘"'possible Feats Of Car 50 hner Production ^via^^ertN' JuIy 29_ ^ ~ huge fieeV ts a§reed today that p,anes Would , carg0 carrying oinerica’j adc* tremendously to t'oned again? potential, but au fea,s of nr? ex Pec ted impossible Cap( produclion. V‘ar I ace ,:et,Rit'kenbacker' World ? Easter,, ? became president Jtilifary '.''PPes. told a Senate believed /, a"'s subcommittee he SUch Plane? °Uld be wiser to build !0r 'he n, ,'n factories designed 'Pimediatp _P03e tban to attempt lrn° aviatin onversi°n of shipyards Testjfv n p,ants *te Def?? before the special Sen rn‘Uee. ita,Se,JInvestiSation Com °f air ii-n°d Talbot, director P'°dueii0rrtaU°n for the War Boai'd, declared that ' «'* l*aK«* Seven; Col. 2) Kussians Defend Vital Railway Taking positions on a hill, Russian soldiers battle in defense of a vital railroad somewhere in the region just north of the Cauiasus during the current German drive toward that important oil region. The Soviets ad mitted the thrust has cost them the strategic city of Rostov. Chinese Counter Attacks Progressing In Kiangsi _____- . CHUNGKING, July 29—UP)—The Chinese high command announced today that Chinese counter-attacks were making further headway in Kiangsi province and that Chinese forces in Hupeh had repulsed all Japanese thrusts against the Ta hung mountains. Chinese troops were said to have encircled the “outer regions” of Kweiki along the Chekiang-Kiang si rail line in Kiangsi province, forcing the Japanese to withdraw inside the fortifications of the town. Fighting also continued south of Yingtan, another station on t h e railroad, the high command said. Chinese troops attacking Linch wan, 60 miles southeast of Nan chang, the provincial capital, were said to have reached the outskirts of the city Sunday, and a com munique reported that they "now are launching a fierce assault upon the city.” In the southern top of Nonan province, the Chinese reported tak ing a heavy toll of Japanese troops northwest of Sinyang. important Japanese base oh the Peiping-Han kow railway. The Chinese with drew before Japanese reinforce ment could be brought up. 3 BIDDLE-FLAYS NAZI SABOTEURS Calls Axis Enemy Aliens Who Came To U. S. Bent Upon Destruction WASHINGTON. July 29 — (iP) Attorney General Biddle denounced the alleged Nazi saboteurs in the Supreme court today as enemy aliens who came to this country bent upon destruction but who, now that they are caught, seek to avoid wartime penalties by appeal to the Civil Courts. Emphatically, he urged the High Tribunal to refuse to issue a writ of habeas corpus demanded by councel for seven of the eight de (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA—Little change in temperature with scattered thundershowers today. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 76; 7:30 a. m. 77; 1:30 p. m. 91; 7:30 p. m. 78; maximum 92; minimum 71; mean 84; normal 79. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 91; 7:30 a. m 90; 1:30 p.-rfl.' 50; 7:30 p. m. 62. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of. the month, 3.63 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington___11:48a. 6:31a. _p. 6:50p Masonboro Inlet__ 9:37a. 3:28a. 10:07p. 3:41p Sunrise 5:22a; sunset 7:15p; moonrise 9:23p; moonset 8:24a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Wednesday at 8 a. m., 9.69 feet. (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 8) 29 WILL ASSUME MILITARY STATUS Boat Owners Here Will Enlist For Active CGA Service Twenty-nine owners in the Cape Fear division of the Coast Guard auxiliary expressed their inten tions of signing themselves and their boats up for active duty as the division, made preparations for militarization at a meeting in the federal courtroom of the custom house here. The 29 owners will be enlisted with their boats for from two to seven days active service a month through the captain of the port’s office here as quickly as possible. As soon as the enlistment of the owners fro active duty is com pleted, the division will enlist crew members to man the craft. In explaining the militarization of the CGA, Lieut. R. W. Thresher, USCG, captain of the port, told the members of the division that the boats would be considered Coast Guard Reserve craft while on active duty. Boat owners will be enlisted with the rating of chief boatswain while crew members will be enlisted as coxswains. Both owners and crew members will receive , uniforms and subsistence allowances while on active duty. Lieut. Thresher also said that regular monthly schedule of' ser vice for the CGA members would be worked out for their duties on (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) TT MORE TAXES URGED BY MANUFACTURER New England Industrialist Wants His Own Levy Raised; ‘Too Little’ WASHINGTON, July 29—Or)—A New England manufacturer told the Senate Finance Committee to day he was going to pay "too damn little” income-tax under the new Revenue bill and urged stiff increases in levies on individuals. "kSTLittle, of Providence, R. T„ president of the Atlantic Rayon corporation, testified he expected to have a net taxable income of $20,000, on which he would pay $7,000 in taxes under the house approved bill. “That’s too damn little,” the witness declared. “I think I ought to pay nearly twice that amount and I think I can.”* Little urged, however, that a flat 50 per cent tax on corpora tions be substituted for all other corporation taxes. Under pending proposals corporations would be subjected to a 45 per cent combin ed normal and surtaxes and 90 per cent on excess profits, in ad (Continued on Pafe Twelve; Col. 3) Strike At Suda Bay, Crete And Battered Tobruk With Air Raids SCOTCHMEN ARRIVE Two Weary Highlanders Trudge Into Desert Post After Tobruk Fall By STEPHEN BARBER CAIRO, Egypt, July 29.— 6*P)—United States and RAF bomber attacks on German and Italian supply bases at Suda Bay, Crete, and on bat tered Tobruk were reported officially today while desul tory artillery drills provided the major action on the Egyptian land front. American and British air forces, although operating on a reduced scale in the battle area, hit shipping and trucks carrying material by which Marshal Erwin Rommel hopes to build up his forces for a renewed assault towards Alexandria. The heavy Allied bombers which attacked Suda bay scored direct hits on ships, it was reported. At Tobruk, the British reported, one vessel was hit and many large fires were started in the harbor area. Both raids occurred Monday night. Other bombers were active over Matruh and Galai, behind Rom mel’s line in Egypt. During daylight yesterday long range fighters and light bombers attacking coastwise barges sank one and probably sank another, the British said. BY HARRY CROCKETT AT A WESTERN DESERX-OUfe POST, Egypt, July 29— I# —Two tired, thin Cameron Highlanders who had been 6n their way since June 23 trudged into this outpost today from Axis-occupied Tobruk. They are Lieut. T. A. Nicol and Driver R. J. Hossack who had for (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V USO TAKES ACTION ON UNFAIR PRICES Citizens’ Council Will In vestigate High Prices Charged In Area Action toward curbing unfair prices allegedly charged service men by some local business firms was taken by the Wilmington USO Citizens council at its end-of-July meeting, the group announced yes terday. Numerous complaints have come to the attentibrt'of members of the USO council about exhorbitant prices being charged men in uni form for food, beverages and other items. The complaints have named establishments in Wilmington and at the nearby beaches. Some com plaintants have alleged that they have witnessed price discrimina tions against service men. The council, at its last meeting, found it almost beyond belief that in view of the sacrifices men in uniform are asked to make and are prepared to make, anyone should ask them to pay more than a civilian is required to pay for! equal merchandise. It also seemed most deplorable that service men should be asked to pay anything but a reasonable price when they are thrown on the hospitality of a community, it was said. Members of the council express ed the hope that it would not be thought by service men or anyone else that such thct'iCs oh' the part of a few tradesmen express the at <Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) RUSSIANS THROW RESERVES AGAINST GERMANS; HEAVY FIGHTING STILL UNDERWAY Scots Go Into Battle On Egyptian Desert Behind heavy tanks moving through a smoke screen, Scots Guard go into battle against Axis forces in the El Alamein sector, north of the Qattara Depression, in the fight to save Egypt. It was on this line tha British Empire forces stopped Axis units under Gen. Rommel and then began to edge westward. City-County Resolution Wants TWP Rate Probe; Bellamy Says Errors In Winbome Statements 2 SHIP CAPTAINS DIE IN SINKING Both Masters, One A Pas senger, Sucked Down ,When Vessel Hit AN EAST COAST PORT. July 29. UP)—Two ship captains, one travel ing as a passenger, died with 16 other officials and men July 24 when Axis torpedoes blasted a small United States merchant vessel to the bottom in the near-record time of one minute. Fourteen men survived, including two seamen traveling as passengers. Only two of the ship's officers were among them. They came here after landing on a large West Indian is land. Two torpedoes exploded in rapid succession against opposite sides of the ship, indicating that two sub marines teamed up for the attack. “Both captains went down with the ship,” said Third Officer Rus sell Dennis of Mathews county, Va. “The ship sank as our master, Capt. George Dewey Hodges, de scended a ladder from the bridge. The visiting skipper was lost as he attempted to cut loose a liferaft.” The guest captain’s name was (Continued on Page Two: Col. 4) -V Army Air Force General Now Stationed In Africa WASHINGTON, July 29— (JP) — Brigadier General Shepler W. Fitzgerald, until recently head of the advanced training command of the southeast Air Corps tactical command at Maxwell Field, Ala., is now in Africa on an assignment for the air transport command. Officials of the War department would not give out location of his headquarters or the exact nature of his duties with the command, which ferries combat planes to war zones and which has charge of the Army’s air and cargo flight operations. All Fuel Oil Deliveries To Be Stopped August 3 - ★ WASHINGTON, July 29—(A>)—Act ing to build reserve stocks for win ter consumption, the War Produc tion Board today ordered all de liveries of fuel oil for heating and air-conditioning equipment stopped in the east between 'August 3 and September 15. Petroleum coordinator Harold L. Ickes recommended the move, which affects 17 eastern seaboard states and the District of Columbia. The area already is under gasoline rationing. About 1.250,000 eastern homes use oil for healing. Air cooling sys stems which have an insufficient oil supply on hand on August 3 may be put out of operation. WPB gave no indication as to whether or not homes and build ings would be able to obtain ade quate supplies of fuel' oil after September 15. Ickes recently urged property owners to convert their furnaces from oil to coal. Deliveries of fuel oil for heating purposes were cut by 50 per cent in an order in effect since last May 15. All the fuel for hot water heaters to which a person is en (Continued on Fuji Seven; Col. 3) a The city council and Board of county commissioners passed a resolution yesterday morning, which in effect demanded an in vestigation of the rate structure of the Tide Water Power company in answer to the proposed ran- re ductions set forth last week by utilities commissioner. Quoting from a pamphlet pub lished by the Federal Power Com mission, on typical electric bills in North Carolina, Mayor Har grove Bellamy showed yesterday that Wilmington’s power rate is considerably higher than other cities of comparable size in the state. For residential service, with a watt-hours, Wilmington ranked power consumption of 25 kilowatt hours, Wilmington stands thirteenth in a list of 19 cities, with all high er rates in cities whose power thereby aiding the city and county pointed out. For a consumption of 100 kilo severtte'erlth in a list of 21 cities, all below being publicly owned. In a consumption of 250 kilowatt hours, the city ranked seventeenth in a list of 21 cities, all below mun icipally owned plants. While the rates quoted in the pamphlet list Wilmington among the cities of 10.00 to 50.00 popu lation. having been published in 1941, Mayor Bellamy pointed out that the rates for towns of 50,00 population or more, were for the most part, much less. According to the latest estimate for the population; Of Wilmington, it ranks about second largest ciy in the state. The rate for Charlotte, largest city, for a consumption of 25 kilo watt-hours, is $1.33,i as compared with Wilmington’s rate of $1.44. (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 1) _ir__ WAR NURSERIES TO BE STARTED Establishments Will Care For 50,000 Children Of Working Mothers WASHINGTON, July 29—15’)— WPA announced today that in or der to make additional thousands of women available for war pro duction jobs, 6,000,000 had been allocated for “war nursery schools to care for 5ft,000.children of work ing mothers: “With the opening of new, schools under the war-time program” the WPA said, “Mothers in increasing numbers are being freed to go into bomber plants, munitions works and other war production activities. The program will be sponsored by local educational authorities. Its development followed a state ment by war manpower chief Paul V. McNutt that the war production effort would demand the services of me e women WPA. Figures showed that of 1.700.000 persons who were given new employment, j (Continued, on Page Eight; Col. <> i-; Grew Declines Interview With Nomura When They Meet At Exchange Point LOURENCO, Marques, Por tuguese East Africa, July 24— (belayed)—C/P)—U. S. Ambas sador Joseph C. Grew was re liably reported today to have declined an audience jvith Ad miral Kichisaburo Nomura, former Japanese ambassador to Washington, when the two envoys were in this neutral port for exchange. The former U. S. ambas sador to Japan was skid to have passed Admiral Nomura and special Japanese Envoy Saburo Kurusu on the dock here during repatriation trans fers but his only greeting was a formal tipping of his hat as he walked past. It was understood that No mura later sought a personal meeting but that Grew would not see him. Why the Japa nese envoy wanted the meet ing was not disclosed. TR00PS‘STRAFED’ IN MANEUVER AREA Planes Of Blue Forces At tack Re«Js In Mock Bat tle Of Carolinas WADESBORO, July 29 — IIP) - Ground troops on maneuvers in th{ Carolinas had their first taste ol enemy air attacks today wher plane after plane of the Blue forces “strafed'' all Red soldier: who failed to keep proper covei and camouflage. Maj. Ben. E. J. Dawley. maneu ver director, has stressed the neec for co-ordination between artillerj and air forces and the operations today indicated the most “serious battle” in the current training pro gram within the next 48 hours. By mid-afternoon large advance forces clashed in the vicinity ol Dudley. S. C., but at nightfall after hours of see-saw action, there wa no indication of which force helc the upper hand. TSaj. Gen. Fred L. Walker, com manding the outnumbered Red forces, sent “grass hopper” planes into the air on observation missions in order to throw his artillery units into action. The light cub observation planes landed on the hard-surfaced roads and were hurriedly pushed from the road and camouflaged against an attack by the Blue force bomb ers. Among the newest developments of Army training, the "grass hop per” planes rode the skyways from sun-up to dark in an effort to lo cate enemy positions and report back to artillery headquarters. But Maj. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem, also has his Blue air forces in ac (Continued an Pace Eirbt; Cal. 6) LITTLE PROGRESS MADE Red Communiques Indicate Slowing Of Nazi Ar mored Steamroller 2,000 ARE ‘WIPED OUT* __ Kill Many Invading Offi cers And Men On Battle front At Bataisk By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Thursday, July 30—(JP)—The Russian armies of the south were reported throwing reserves into the bitter battle against the Ger mans today and the Soviet midnight communique indi cated the Nazi steam-roller had made little if any prog ress in the last 24 hours. While dispatches from the battlefield said the Russians finally were beginning to put their huge manpower reserve into action, the communique merely said that “fierce en gagements” with the enemy, were fought in the Tsimly ansk and Bataisk areas of the Don and Caucasus and on the north end end of that flaming front in the Voronezh avea. On the critical Caucasian battle front at Bataisk, 15 miles below Rostov, the Russians said heavy fighting continued throughout the day. Infantry troops defending one important position, supported by tanks and planes, wiped out about 2,000 German men and officers. The communique announced for the first time that the Germans were attacking west of Kletskaya, , 120 miles northwest of Stalingrad ' and well to the north of the Don Caucasus battleground. Kletskaya is on the Don river well below Voronezh. (This open ing of a new front might indicate (Continued <»n Pafe Two; Col. 8) _T 7_. BRITISH CONTINUE SCOURGE OF NAZIS Follow Harris’ Declaration With Tons Of Explo sives Over Hamburg LONDON, July 29 IIP) —Big, black four-motored British bomb ers. implementing their comman der’s threat to “scourge” Germany from end to end poured tons of ex plosive and incendiary bombs on Hamburg last night and left that great port and U-boat cradle cov ered with flames. It was the second mass raid on Hamburg in three nights. An RAP commentator said it was “very successful, even more so than we anticipated.” He added that the continuing bomb raids of such a large scale are causing the German govern ment “increasing concern.” While Hamburg was put under the massed bombs of perhaps 600 planes, 32 of which were acknowl edged lost, British fighters attack ed* German communications in western Europe in night-long raids. Then today the RAF struck at targets in western Germany in the fourth successive daylight raid, and spitfires bombed locomotives (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) I-1 CD NEEDS Drivers Corps: 212 (Men and Women) Duties: Cars and drivers as signed to first aid squads, cas ualty stations and control cen ter. Training: General course, gas defense B, first aid—10 hours. Enlisted to date: 38. Quota: 250. Enlistments yesterday: Air Raid Wardens . 17 Control Room . 2 _ Total . IS —
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