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, pgerved By Leased Wire Of The _ ‘"StwmS" /JJlQLX4. .. I remember With Complete Coverage Ot 111 I 1 | |TT M fl «^/T FI I PEARL HARBOR ^iiiand lationat News J UUIU VlCU AND BATAAN -*0- 296_TWELVE PAGES WILMINGTON, N, C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942 __ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. preservation Of Law And Order For India Intended By British - <4_:_ Cripps t)«lar« Stand Of , Government 0" F«r Duration Of The War [TO BE GIVEN CHANCE Indian People Will Have Full Opportunity To Attain Self-Rule LONDON, Thursday. Aug. g_C/p)—Sir Stafford Cripps, whose mission to settle the Indian problem failed last sprin0- declared in a state inent°today that Britain in tended to "preserve law and order" in India until the war ended. . , u After tne war, ne wic Indian people will be given an orportunitv to attan the self government which Indian Na Uunalbt U-aJH-s are demanding be imtecl them now and for which v;;. are preparing to launch a civil disobedience campaign. Sir Stafford made his statement to the press as the working com n ittee oi the All - India congress party adopted a resolution de manding independence for India. The resolution will be put before the full committee of the party at a meeting beginning in Bombay Friday. "We make no threats,” Cripps wrote, "but we must assert un equivocally our duty to India, to .peat minorities and to the United tuitions to preserve law and order intil hostilities cease and we can hen give as we have promised the idlest opportunity for attainment if self government by the Indian jeople. "It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide upon rapid md ordered progress. ■ [ can assure them that the Brit sh people are as determined upon self-government for India as they sre themselves. We ask the great masses of India to be patient for a (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V rVIET SHOOTING TRIAL UNDERWAY State Acks For Verdict Of Murder In Second De gree For Woman Trial of Mrs. Nell Tveit, of 411 North Second, in which the state is asking a verdict of guilty of murder m the second degree in connection with the fatal shooting of her husband. Charles Tveit, on < ie night of June 13. was begun late yesterday afternoon. five witnesses, including Robert ’Pach. Jr., of Winston - Salem, a lephevv of Mrs. Tveit. were era amined before the court recessed. . i i city - county ea a officer, told of performing v post mortm on Tveit and said , eat“ was caused by a bullet Aound in the intestine.” ,0n '*lrect examination Police Of ’,eei, ■■ Hewett told of receiving call to the home between 9 and 30 o clock where he found Tveit on the floor. “Mrs. Tveit said .... ;.\e.Ul7Tshot himself.” the offi ,v n!!1, ^nder cross-examination ,,, nf®e Attorney Aaron Gold stan|ii lc®r Hewett said “she was ,vhHe \,Tby t?™’" when asked Jfficer jVeit was when the arrived. On further ques (Continued on rage Two. Col 4) IKAFFIC SIGNALS delay EXPLAINED Electrician Expects ’shts To Be Opera te Next Week -'tailed*'!11 Wilmington's newly f:jeian n“a“lc !ights’ City Klee right. wilTld Sandlin said las', hext week’, egin before at least fiial Par. a®spite arrival of the Jse of the ''bich were holding up PoliCe p.me(chanisms. declared j.le Charles H. Casteen ec!ed tL °"'ever> that he ex P-ration ,uSIgnals to be put into ■arted ni,,1 week. Work was first it l.wo months ago on rJ Ci.c ir "b'eh are at Second ■out an.| Second and Grace, ;at]e streetsraCe and Third and e Psrt^whf ,r?fused to describe stallation Cla have delayed final 11 it waq ,, the instruments, alurer nderstood the manu re th; s unable to deliver them adveHu;n.We?' 11 don’t want :ctriciaiV saidhat they are’” tho INDIA TO BE ALLY IF GIVEN FREEDOM AH - India Congress Says Country Will Assist United Nations BOMBAY, India, Aug. 5— Ufi — The working committee of the all India congress party, nearing a showdown with the British empire on the issue of independence, to day adopted a resolution serving notice that India would beome an ally of the United Nations if grant ed freedom. The working committe’s 1,200 word resolution demanded the “withdrawal of British power so as to enable India to become an ally of the United Nations and fight ag gressors.” But, the resolution warned, the Congress party was preapred to launch a civil disobedience strug gle if necessary to gain indepen dence. It was said the new resolution was-drafted to comply with “rea sonable and constructive” crit icisms made after the British dis closed the original draft of a reso lution offered by Gandhi. In the original draft the Indian leader threatened civil disobedience ac tion against the British if demands for independence were refused and stated the first move of an inde pendent government probably would be to negotiate with Japan. SOLON FLAYS NAVY ON TANK CARRIERS Truman Also Charges ‘Bias And Prejudice’ In Higgins Case WASHINGTON, Aug. 5— UP)— A charge that the Navy’s bureau of ships was guilty of “negligence or wilfull misconduct” in connec tion with plans to build special tank-carrying vessels has ben placed before Secretary of the Navy Knox by Senator Truman (D —MO), chairman of the Senate De fense Investigating Committee. A letter from Truman to Knox, which contained the charge, also a serted that the bureau had treated Higgins Industries, Inc., of New Or leans in a “biased and prejudiced” way in connection with the con struction plans. Truman explained to reporters that the Higgins firm was granted a contract for turning out tank lighter, to be used for transporting tanks from ship to shore where no wharfs were available. However, Truman said, produc tion was held up for seven or eight months while the Navy checked on other types of tank lighters for pos sible use instead of those produced by Higgins. “Finally, after our committee began investigating the matter,” continued Truman, “the Navy or dered Higgins to go ahead with the production of the tank lighters as originally planned.” Truman said his complaint to Knox had nothing to do with the cancellation of the Higgins’ con tract to build Liberty cargo ships by mass production methods. This contract, a separate one, was can celled by the Maritime Commis sion on the ground that insufficient steel was available, and a hot con troversy has resulted. Truman informed Knox that the Senate committee had taken testi mony on action of officers of the Bureau of Ships and would not (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) ■XT WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Scattered showers and thunderstorms, little change in tem perature today. (By U. S. Weather Bureau) (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday). (Eastern Standard Time) Temperature 1:30 a. m. 76; 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:30 p. m 89; 7:30 p. m. 82; maximum 91; mini mum 75; mean 83; normal 79. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 87; 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:30 p. m. 43, 7:30 p. m. 65. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 730 p. m. 0.01 inches. Total since the first of the month 1.26 inches. Tides For Today (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _5.09a 12:08a 5:45p 12:19p Masonboro Inlet _3:03a 9:14a 3:36p 9:59o Sunrise 527a; sunset 7:08p moonrise 1:00a; moonset 302p. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) When the photographer happen ed along near the El Alainein front in Egypt, this little pup was too busy watching for Germans or something to pose. His oblig ing master, a New Zealander, is pictured holding his head up as they rested in a slit trench. The pup had been born only a few weeks before during one of the big battles in the desert.—(Cen tral Press.) RAF CONTINUES NAZI BOMBINGS Carry Out Determination To Hit Germany Re gardless Of Weather LONDON, Aug. 5— im —The RAF’s new determination to raid Germany regardless of weather conditions was carried out with an attack on the Ruhr last night through thunderstorms, solid over cast and even snow at the higher altitudes, the Air Ministry announc ed today. “It was like flying through a white woolen blanket,” said the gunner in a Halifax bomber. There was no indication of the size of the attacking force, but de spite the poor weather only one bomber was lost. One fighter plane was lost on sweeps against trains and other objectives in occupied territory, and fighters and fighter-bombers returned to the attack this mor ning in clear weather. Improved British anti-aircraft devices bagged six bombers yester day out of small enemy forces ranging over southwest England and south Wales. Two German fighter-bombers (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V 75 DAVIS OFFICERS GET PROMOTIONS List Of Advancements In clude Rank From War rant Officer To Colonel Since June 1, fifty-seven Camp Davis officers have received pro motions, according to a list releas ed yesterday at camp headquar teers. The promotions ranged in grade from chief warrant officer to colonel. Individual announcement of some of the promotions has already been made, but this is the first time this summer that a consolidated lis> has been published. Promotions for the period included: Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel— Kolia V. Ladd. CAC: Alexander P. Kelly, MC. Major to Lieutenant Colonel — Edward M. Gregory, CAC; Jesse J. Hinson, CAC; Carl J. Fox, AGD (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Tobacco Mart Opens In N. C. This Morning Last Minute Preparations Made For Selling Of 1942 Nicotine Crop OPTIMISM PREVAILING Reports From Southern Centers Indicate High Prices Are Ahead FLORENCE, Aug. 5.—(JP) A spirit of optimism pre vailed throughout the border tobacco belt area of the two Carolinas tonight as last minute preparations were made for the selling of thou sands of pounds of the new crop on 16 auction markets tomorrow. Bigger production and bet ter grades were factors in creating the feeling that a good season was ahead, but even more important were the reports from the Georgia-Flori da markets that prices had averaged above $33 a hundredweight this year. Last year’s average price on the border belt was somewhat better than $25. Unofficial estimates placed the crop in South Carolina this year at from 85,000,000 to 90,000,000 pounds, compared with last year’s 57,95,536 pounds, which was the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) __v_ Passenger Coach Fares To Be Raised In South WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.— (jP) — Passenger coach fares in the south soon will be increased from 1.65 to 2.2 cents a mile, putting that sec tion on the same basis a’? the rest of the country. Permission for the southern railroads to make the increase was granted today by the Interstate Commerce Commission. In a petition filed with the ICC July 14, in which they asked au thority for the increase, the south ern railroads said passenger opera tion long had been conducted at substantial losses. No objections were filed to the proposal, the ICC added. -v U. S. Material Deliveries To Russia More Difficult Now, Says Gen. Bradley MOSCOW, Aug. 5—(TP)—Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley, o n a special flying mission from the United States to speed Ameri can aid to Russia, said tonight that deliveries of war material to the Soviet Union was be coming increasingly difficult due to German bombing or northern shipping lanes and the land offensive in the Cau casus. He reiterated, however, Unit ed States determination to de liver the goods. Acknowledging that the- sit uation is serious in southern Russia, Bradley said, however, that the “American people ac cept the Russian reverses as a fortune of war and have hope and even faith that the Rus sians will he able to hold.” CIO Head Urges AFL Aid In Halting War Strikes ~ • tw .. -— — ■- " 1 ' CHICAGO, Aug. 5—UP)—CIO Chief Philip Murray today urged the American Federation of Labor to cooperate with the Congress of in dustrial organizations in a program designed to halt jurisdictional strikes for the duration of the war. Mu stated he was “deeply cone , by work stoppages caused rich differences and re called tl n a letter to AFL President n Green last Sun day, he hau '<sed the creation of a joint Ci FL committee? with an imparLa arbitrator, to handle all jurisdi\,,:;r-al disputes between the two gK, , ps. , “I hope the federation will em power its president to mediate, conciliate and arbitrate,” he said. “If the executive council (AFL) agrees to delegate that power to its president, I am prepared to as sure America that there will not be another strike caused by juris dictional disputes in the United States during the war. I depend on the A. F. of L. I am ready to do my part.” Murray defined his views in a speech before the annual conven tion of the United Automobile. Air craft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union (CIO). Green, here attending a meeting: of the AFL executive council, made j no comment. Murray also touched briefly on the agreement of the AFL and CIO to consider a reunion of their forces at a peace parley. NEW GERMAN PUSH ADVANCES NEARER TO GREAT RUSSIAN STEEL CITY OF STALINGRAD ICELAND RAIDED BY NAZI PLANES Stage Second Assault In 48 Hours; No Casualties, Damage Reported REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 5— (if)—The Germans have made then second long-range aerial attack m 48 hours on isolated points in Ice land, the United States army an nounced today in a communique declaring a lighthouse manned by Icelanders on tiny Grimsey Island was machine-gunned by bombers. No casualties or damage re sulted from the gunfire directed yesfirday morning at the light about eight miles off Holmavik, on the northwest coast. A Focke-Wulf plane bombed and machine-gunned a military instal lation on the southeast coast of Iceland Sunday morning, the army said. No casualties results but small damage was done. The army added that two hostile planes were reported over Iceland early today but disappeared witn out attempting an attack. The plane attacking the light house apparently was the same which passed over western Iceland early yesterday and set off a 45 minute air raid alarm in Reyk javik. Fighter planes went up but did not contact the raider. -V 2 PLANS ADVANCED ON KEEPING TIRES Choice Of Mileage Ration ing Or Nation-Wide Gas Restrictions WASHINGTON, Aug 5— UP) —The problem of keeping tires on the na tion’s wheels resolved itself today into a choice between nationwide gasoline rationing, long supported by the Office of Price Administra tion, and a system of “mileage ra tioning” and speedometer check ups, advocated by the Office of De fense Transportation. A War Production Board spokes man. who declined to permit use of his name, said these were the only two plans before the Board, four hours yesterday and whose chairman Donald M. Nelson fore cast a decison in two weeks. Although ODT kept mum about details of its plan for rationing mi leage, there were apparently re liable reports that the scheme call ed also for “gasless Sundays” or some other form of restriction on hours of selling gasoline to dis courage pleasure driving. Other essentials of the plan—as divulged by sources outside ODT but not denied by that agency.—in cluded the issuance of “certificates of necessity” to all drivers outside the present ration area. These would specify, in addition to a basic minimum mileage allow ance, additional mileage reckoned on actual vocatonal needs. Speed ometer readings would afford the check on actual miles of travel, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) -v U. S. Bomber Shoots D&wn 4 Out Of 6 Jap Attackers WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—(£>)—1The war department reported today that an army Boeing B-17 heav;, bomber, on a photographic mission over the Pacific, shot down four of six Japanese fighter planes which attacked it near Wake Is land on July 31. The two remaining enemy fight ers turned and fled, the depart ment said. Three of the planes shot down were Japanese Zeroes, and the fourth was believed to be a Heinkel 112. WLB Wants To Double Cargo Plane Production WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—(£>) —The War Production Board’s committee on cargo planes has recommended the doubling, at least, ot cargo plane production. Chairman Donald II. Nelson an nounced today, but he left squarely up to the military chiefs of staff the decision whether to cut down combat plane production to make the increase possible. Three major recomipendations of the committee, Nelson said, called for: 1. An increase in cargo plane output to at least twice the present program, through an increase in present procurement and through conversion of cer tain bombers to cargo type. 2. Further impetus to de velopment of longer-range land and sea planes. ’ 3. A “large increase’’ in facil ities for tlie manufacture and transportation of aviation gaso line to meet the needs of a greatly expanded movement of cargo by air. “If we now undertake to build a substantially larger number (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Alleged Conspirator Taken By U. S. Marshal In N. C. ASHEVILLE, Aug. 5— UP) —Hud son DePriest of Wichita, Kansas, indicted in Washington July 23 with 27 others on charges of conspiracy to promote revolt in the Army and the Navy, was arrested in Char otte this afternoon by U. S. Dep uty marshals from Charlotte and Shelby, U. S. Marshal Charles Price announced here late today. If DePriest does not make $5,000 bond in Charlotte he will be return ed to Asheville and sent immed iately to Washington, the Marshal said. DePriest is described as being a writer for Gerald Winrod of Wi chita, also indicted, and as havng conducted prize contests for Elmer J. Garner and James F. arner of Wichita, also among the 28 in dicted. Winrod is publisher of “the Defender” and the arners are publisher of “Publicity.” 3 XT PELLEY PICTURED TRAITOR-PATRIOT Opposing Counsels Argue Merits Of Sedition Trial Before Jury INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 5— <JP) — 1 William Dudley Pelley was pictur . ed as both “traitor” and “patriot” I in opposing arguments before a j Federal court jury retired late to day to decide his fate on charges of criminal sedition. Oscar R. Ewing of New York, ! special prosecutor, and B. Howard Caughan. U. S. district attorney for southern Indiana, called the 52-year-old founder of the Silver Shirts a “traitor” and defense At torney Oscar F. Smith said his cli ent was a “patriot.” Ewing labeled Pelley “a man who serves poison against his gov ernment - sugar-coated with the j teachings of Jesus of Nazareth." Caughran, closing the govern | ment’s case and the final argu ments, shook his finger at Pelley and said: “You are a traitor to your coun try. You stabbed your country in the back while it was engaged with a foreign foe.” Caughran referred to a man con victed in the same courtroom a few years ago for killing an FBI agent after slaying his own mother and remarked to Pelley: “But I don’t believe that man had a blacker heart than you who were willing to murder the coun try that gave you birth and nur tured your ancestors for 200 years” “The record shows plainly,” the district attorney told the jury, “that Pelley wanted to be the quis ling of America. He was willing to see it the victim of a foreign nation in order to realize his das tardly ambitions. . . “The Silver Shirts bristle through and through with militarism. . . it was the purpose of Pelley to raise a private army. . .as they (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 7) War Tide Is Starting To Turn, Former Dutch Premier Declares LONDON, Aug. 5—UP— Premier Pieter S. Gerbrandy of the Dutch government-in-Exile told his people in the German-occupied Nether lands tonight that the war tide is starting to turn and urged them to “await with wise patience the moment when the call comes from here, not only to take a passive but also an active part” in possi ble second front operations against the Nazis. The strategic picture of the war has improved, he decltrec} in a radio appeal as allied thieftains were reported reviewing alterna tives to a mass invasion of the continent. The Dutch Premier cited these reasons for saying that the tide of war is beginning to turn in favor of the United Nations: 1. Air superiority, with heavy bombardment upon war centers which are but a prelude to what will follow. 2. Although the attacking powers of Germany and Japan are far from exhausted, their limits are becoming clear. 3. The military rise of the United States. “Everywhere people are con vinced that it is better to die for a future free Europe than to live under the German yoke,” he said. British and United States service chiefs, meanwhile, sought a swifter means of relieving the desperate Russian war situation than by RAF bombing offensives. The first sea lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, master of the Royal Navy has delegated part of his duties to Admiral Sir Charles Ken nedy Purvis in order to devate more time to plans and operations (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) j NEW SALES TAX PLAN PROPOSED Senate Hears Plan To De cree 5 Per Cent Sales Levy For Duration WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.— <-‘D — Urging senators to vote a 5 per cent sales tax for the duration and six months afterwards, a spokes man for the National Retail Dry Goods association declared today that such a levy would be “dis tinctly deflationary” and not in flationary as treasury officials con tend. “All economists agree on the deflationary aspects of such a tax,” Jay Iglauer told the Senate Fi nance committee, which is con sidering the tax bill recently ap proved by the house. “You mean all economists except those in the treasury, don’t you?” Senator Vanddenberg (R-Mich) ask ed wryly. Later Vandenberg told reporters he was “perfectly amaz ed” by the treasury's continued op position to a sales levy. “When the retailer himself has agreed — is even urging — to ac cept the load of collecting such a tax, then the last man who has a right to complain has disappear ed,” Vandenberg said. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said he thought Iglauer had made an ex cellent case for the. sales tax, but Senator Brown (D-Mich) told re porters he was not ready to sup port a tax on all the necessities of life. Brown added he was work ing on a proposal to increase the excise rates on certain luxury pro ducts. Estimating that a 5 per cent general sales levy would bring in 'about $2,500,000,000 additional rev enue, Iglauer recommended that the tax be paid by the consumer. _v_ ‘BLUES’ PROGRESS IN N. C. MANEUVERS Under Blackout, Tear Gas Attack, Mock War Moves Forward WITH THE SIXTH ARMY CORPS ON CAROLINA MANEU VERS, Aug. 5—Iff)—Although its en gineers had to construct their main pontoon bridge under the twin handicaps of night gas attack and blackout restrictions, the Blue army under Major Gen. Willis D. Critenberger made rapid progress today in its problem of crossing the muddy Pee Dee river. In fact it appeared the decisive point in the current Carolina ma neuver problem might be reached by mid-day tomorrow. Blue armor ed companies — tanks, armored cars, self - propelled 75’s — were pouring over the pontoon bridge in a steady stream and going in to pound the Reds’ northern flank late today. The Red commander, Maj. Gen. Fred L. Walker, was prevent ed from reinforcing these positions by the fact that Blue infantry was crossing the Pee Dee to keep his men engaged at sereval points on his south. Erection of the heavy bride, in volving use of some of the Army’s newer equipment, brought at least two generals and any number of colonels, including Lieut. Col. Frank C. Murphy, to the scene shortly after daybreak. By then the engineers, who had been forced to wear gas masks against the biting tear gas most of the night, had all but completed their task. No sooner did the first tjtfik venture onto tne bridge, how (Continued on Paee Two: Col. 2) REDS ARE RESISTING ‘Stubborn Battle’ Fought With Invaders Suffer ing Heavy Losses SOME ATTACKS HALTED In Kletskaya Sector, Re peated Assaults Turned Back; 1,200 Killed MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 6.—(/P)—A new German push south and west of Stalingrad by Nazi tank and infantry columns seeking to complete a pincer movement on the great steel city has brought fighting on the central front to Kotelnikovski, 95 miles from Stalingrad, the Soviet high command announced to day. “Stubborn battles” were fought Wednesday at the town on the Stalingrad-North Caucasus railway and the Germans advanced slightly with heavy losses, the midnight communique said. The Russians reported contin ued fighting in other sectors of the Stalingrad front and in the north Caucasus but without specific re sults. South of Kushchevka, 50 miles south of Rostov, the Germans suf fered particularly heavy losses, the Russians said. One Soviet unit aJone accounted for six tanks and kiiled 600 Germans. In the Kletskaya sector, on the northern end of the German pincer before Stalingrad, repeated Ger man attacks were repulsed and 1,200 Nazi troops were killed, the communique said. In the area south of Belaya Glina (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 5) \J_ 47 MEN WANDER 32 DAYS AT SEA Sub Which Sank Vessel Gives Wrong Informa tion On Nearest Land BY THE ASOCIATED PRES Forty-seven men who wandered 32 days at sea. after the submarine which torpedoed their vessel gave them false information about the nearest land, finally reacted an east coast port, the Navy disclosed yesterday. They were survivors of the sec ond United States ship whose loss was officially announced during the day. Added to the sinking of a British vessel, also announced, des struction of the ship raised the As sociated Press tabulation of Atlan tic losses since Dec. 7 to 414. Fourteen men were missing and 95 saved from the two ships an nounced earlier. Six were missing and believed dead, of the crew of the second American ship, and two more died while the survivors suf fered 32 days of hunger and thirst in a lifeboat. The survivors said the sub marine surfaced after the attack June 27, helped pick up survivors, and gave the crew information about the closest land—information which proved false. However, Sec (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) __ CD Needs Road Repair Crews: 97 (Men) . Duties: Smooth road surfaces, repave and fill hole: restore road markings. Training: General Course, Fire Defense A. Enlisted to date: 3. Quota: 10U. Enlistments yesterday. Messengers _2 B'ood and Housing _2 Auxiliary B'iremen _ l Wardens _ 2 Total _’_7
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