"Served By Leased Wire Of ihel - + *4 v 414 _ -- \ saStf] Mtltttttujtmt fBiimmg i^tar - :—T-f'iP&k WILMINGTON, N. C„ MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1942_ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867.' powerful U. b. rleet Is Striking Savagely At Solomon Islands Combined Sea-Air Forces Smashing At Japs In Paciiic, Aleutians rFX ^ARTHUR’S uS)QUART£rS, Austra f \-AR)—The power f \ rifted States Pacific fleet of the south a‘f pacific flotilla struck ^‘ continuing blows to t with -other forces” of he Alies at Japanese bases m h Solomon islands m Amer ica’s first £reat offensive of thun Washington, the Navy department reported tersely £ the attack on the Solo TmuhIs whs continuing but was ^STith "considerable enemy M-Uice" The Navy said it was "nitoo early to announce results or estimate our own or enemy losses. ».e Washington communique - dosed that Australian units also LVe in the battle with our forces.) Flambouyant Japanese broad ..asts that li transports and 17 oth ' -Anglo - American” warships ,vere sunk or damaged suggested that the great naval battle was cov ering an invasion to drive the ene my irom the southeast Solomons. 901) miles northeast of Australia. The fight was at the northern boun dary of the exotic Coral sea where a United States naval task force In May inflicted the first major naval 1 defeat in history upon J apan. I Thousands of miles to the north, I a task force of the Pacific fleet had bombarded Japanese ships and installations at Kiska, one of thre bleak, fog - shrouded Aleutian is lands strung out to the southwest of Alaska on which at least 10,000 Japanese have established them selves. Only the scantiest details of the major engagement off the Solo mons came Irom Allied sources. The results of the battle, now in its third day. lay locked in the smok ing steel throats of the huge naval guns. i The operations are progressing favorably in spite of opposition by 'enemy land-based pircraft and gar risons.” a communique relayed here from Pearl Harbor by Admir al Chester W. Nimitz, commander •Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) econScIystem 1ST BE REVAMPED league 0{ Nations Commit tees Report On Problems Oi Post-War Rebuilding — PRINCETON, N. J„ Aug. 9—W —The League of Nations economic and financial committees reported today that post-war reconstruction would require the building of a new system of economic society “from the foundations.” Making public the opening sec tion of a report on future interna tional cooperation dealing with the problem of relief and reconstruc tion, the committees said it was probable that the rejuvenation of ar - torn countries would depend rgely on the ability and willing ,countries whose productiv > had not been directly curtailed ,v'ar t0 furnish supplies and scaleC”S °n the largest possible frr^Ci ^neeit.in® representatives nations at the institute for d need study was under forml?"Shlp °f Henfy F- Grady, A drafta8S'Stant secretary of state. iem,‘ j reP°rt on post-war prob drawn up earlier in London Continued on )>aEe xuo; Co, PILING ■NTO CHADBOURN I Estimated 300,000 Pounds L n Warehouses For Sales Today Ausust 9— An loaf to!;,;, Pounds of golden house floo? *s 011 tbe local ware tor the J* .here tonight, waiting Monday 1,.'n'n^ °f the first sales t „ " n,0rninfr Lea, Wins«t “ oeclaretj tI supervisor of sales, h placin" ' farniers ars apparent they j,av“ *'ery pound of tobacco "’amhou«P ?laded and tied on the °ne farm!.Uction b,ock said, ■■ summed it up when ®o"- anri e know prices are good iny oliann 6 aren t goin t0 take Tobacco • w,th them falling”, bourn jn i!> moving into Chad ,n" ^ -b£bv traetors^ri,ekS Ti'o s- C Aug.,9—UP)— "1ils border. belt tobac ,tonl'nued ... .. 1 Pa*e Two; Col. 7) REDS FALL BACK BEFORE MAIKOP Fighting Desperate Defen sive Action; Admit German Progress MOSCOW, Monday, Aug. 10.—(A5) Russian troops fighting desperate defensive actions were giving way today before both of Germany’s two drives aimed at the Caucasus oil center of Maikop, it was indicated in the Russian midnight communi que. The Germans, striking powerful blows with mechanized armies, ad mittedly made progress both in the area of Kropotkin, 60 miles north of' Maikop, and in the region of Armavir, 60 miles northeast of Mai kop, where the Russians said they were fighting “heavy defensive en gagements.” The Germans,were throwing great masses of men, guns and machines into action as the struggle for the possession of the vital Caucasian oil fields gained in fury. Russian sol diers were under orders to stand their ground or die, but on several sectors of the 250-mile front Ger man numbers and mechanical su periority appeared to be overcoming the Russians. (The German high command is sued two special communiques an nouncing the capture of Krasnodar and Maikop, two key cities on the approaches to Russia’s oil reserves. The Germans also said their drive had carried them to the northern foothills of the Caucasus mountains.) While the prize in the Caucasus was oil, other Russian armies were battling as courageously to protect the industrial region of Stalingrad. In this area'the Russians Were more successful. Savage German attacks being met by Russian counter at (Continued on Pate Two; Col. 8) 2 KILLED,5HURT IN PLANE CRASH Big Army Bomber Falls In Heavy Swamp Near Ra leigh Golf Course RALEIGH, A.ug. 9— (/P) —Two men were killed and five injured today when a medium Army bomb ing plane crashed in the middle of a swamp near the Raleigh airport. As fire and smoke started en gulfing the wreckage, several of the injured began dragging their comrades from the plane. Em ployes of the airport and golfers from a nearby course arrived quickly and lent aid in taking the men through more than 100 yards of jungle-like underbrush and to ambulances. The crew was from the 315th bombardment squadron, 21st Bom bardment group, MacDill Field, Fla. John R. Rarrat with next of kin at 2725 West 39th Place, Chicago, died in a hospital. The other killed was not positively identi fied. ine injured were nrst j-iieui. Frank E. Warneken, Jr., in com mand, of 206 McKinley avenue, Grossepointe Farms, Mich.; Sec ond Lieut. Elmer John Gedeon of 4621 Denmark ave., Cleveland; Lawrence D. Glover, of Route one, Hartford, Wash.; Michael A. Mag nota, Jr., of 812 North Barrion street, Elbion, Mich.; and Pvt. Morris L. Clark of 207 Murcer street, Durant, Mich. The names were released at a hospital here after the Army had given its per mission. The bomber was similar to one that crashed last month near Smithfield, killing seven, among them Pfc. S. R. McDonald, for mer sport seditor of the Raleigh News and Observer. Several small trees were snapped (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 6) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA—Little change in temperature, few widely scattered thundershowers Monday. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday); (By V. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 77; 7:30 a. m. 78; 1:30 p. m. 86; 7:30 p. m. 79; maximum 88; minimum 76; mean 82; normal 78. Humidity; 1:30 a. m. 88; 7:30 a. m. 90; 1:30 p. m. 62; 7:30 p. m. 82. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m„ 1.06 inches; total since the first day of the month, 2.54 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 8:33a. 3:23a' 8:57p. 3:30p. Masonboro Inlet - 6:16a. ^SOa. 6:36p. 12:22p. Sunrise 5:30a; sunset 7:05p; moonrise 4:06a; moonset 6:09p. (Continued on Paee Two: Coi. 8) ! m More Islands In Aussie Encirclement . Tokyo has announced that Jap naval units had occupied strategic points in the Kei, Aru and Tanibar islands in the Arafura sean orth of Australia. Allies have re ported bombing Kei islands but have not mentioned others. Circles mark areas where Japs now have bases north of Australia, including the new claims: Timor Arafura sea;-New Guinea and New Britain and the Solomon islands. Chinese Increase Push In Province Of Kiangsi CHUNGKING, China, Aug. 9. — GP> —Supported by the Sky Dragons of U. S. Brigadier Gen eral Claire Chennault, Chinese troops were reported tonight in creasing their pressure against the important Japanese strong hold of Linchwan, in Kiangsi province, while striking at Jap anese forces in widespread areas of China. Front-line dispatches did not elaborate on reports that the United States airmen under Gen eral Chennault had attacked Linchwan but they have repeat edly raided the city. Chinese troops from Hu wan. 12 miles southeast of Linehwan, have joined the attack. Hu wan, the Chinese said, was burned and evacuated by the Japanese a few days ago. Fighting also was reported in the vicinity of Likiatn, 20 miles northwest of Linehwan, where the Chinese and Japanese faced each other across the Fu river. Thirty boatloads of Japanese dead and wounded were said to have gone to N'anchang from the battle zone in the past few (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Body Of J. W. Bostian Recovered From Canal The body of J. W. Bostian, 21, of Lake Village, who drowned in the inland waterway late Friday aftemoon, was recovered yester day afternoon after about 24 hours of grappling by authorities. Bostian, in company with three other persons, was riding in a small boat which capsized in the wake of a larger craft as it passed them, it was learned. The others in the party escaped witout injury, but Bostian was not seen after the craft tipped over. The body was taken to Landis last night where funeral services will be ehld today at the Trinity church there. 3 RAF PHOTOGRAPHS BOMBING DAMAGE Pictures Show Raids On Germany To Have Big Effect On Enemy T n / 7D\ ’DAT? connaissance photographs taken ;n v/estern Germany disclose that the recent big British raids caused damage “which is certain to have far-reaching effects on the enemy's production of armaments and munitions,” the Air Ministry News service said tonight. The announcement came on a day of quiet on both the offensive and defensive British aerial fronts. Bad weather kept the RAF at home last night. A single Nazi plane dropped bombs harmlessly on the East Coast last night and was destroyed, while a few other enemy planes flew over the north and east of England, causing some damage and a small number of casualties, the government said. Two enemy fighters dropped bombs harmlessly on the south coast this morning, an air and Home Security ministries com munique reported. During the afternoon another pair of Nazi planes machine-gunned and bomb ed another point on the south coast, (Continued on Paffe Two; Col. 2) , ■ -V Elite Guard Formations In Finland Are Inspected BERLIN, (From German Broadcasts)—Aug. 9— (.IP) — Kenrich Himmler, leader of the Elite guard and chief of the Gestapo, inspected Elite guard formations in Finland last week, it was announced tonight. He was the guest of President Jlisto Ryti and other members of the Finnish gov ernment, and on a visit to headquarters of Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim received from the Finnish field marshal the Grand Cross of Liberty as a special token of the fight ing alliance of the Finnish army and the SS “Viking” division, which includes Fin nish volunteers, the DNB agency said. V. FILIPINOS CONTINUE BATTLE FOR HOMES ‘High In The Mountains And In Jungles/ They Fight Japs WASHINGTON, Aug. 9— CP) — Operating from points “high in the mountains and far in the jungles,” fighting Filipinos are continuing the battle against the Japanese forces which have over-run the island, President Manuel Quezon, president of the commonwealth of the Philip pines, said today. Speaking over the Columbia Broad casting System, President Quezon said that "my Filipino countrymen have fought beside your boys.” He did not. however, state whether or not he believed any American troops to be participating in the guerrilla fighting which he said continued in the Jap-occupied islands. Calling attention to the fact that the Atlantic Charter was signed by President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill a year ago this week, Quezon, who now lives with his family near Washington, called it a “worldwide charter.” “It applies to the nations and the peoples of all the world. It is a charter for Europe and for America, for Africa and for Australia, and— let us be clear on this—it is a char ter of freedom for the peoples of Asia and all the Far East,” he said. 20 LIGHTERS SUNK BY RAF IN AFRICA Action Takes Place During Last Three Weeks Off Lybia And Egypt CAIRO, Aug. 9— UP) —British bombers, keeping up a continuous assault on Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s supply lines, have sunk 20 Axis self-propelled lighters off the Libyan and Egyptian coasts in the past three weeks, the Middle East news service said tonight. In carrying capacity the lighters “were the equivalent, at the most conservative estimate,” to at least 1,500 three-ton trucks, the service said. The RAF bombed Tobruk har bor Friday night, the service said, starting fires in the jetty area and among ships. British general headquarters said “enemy positions in the north ern sector were engaged by our artillery” Friday night. On Saturday, it added, a light bomber scored two hits on a small enemy vessel, while RAF fighters shot down three Messerschmitts over Malta. -V TWO PLANES DOWNED VALLETTA, Malta, Aug. 9—(IP) —Two German fighters were shot down over Malta when a consider able number of enemy planes, ap proached the island today, the RAF announced AERIAL ‘MARKERS’ FOUND BY AIRMEN U. S. Fliers Locate Ingen ious Pointers To Air Fields, Factories MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., Aug. 9—Iff).—The existence of ingeniously constructed markers which pointed the way for enemy air attack on vital eastern air fields and air plane factories was disclosed today by the First Ground Air Support Command. All of these subversice guides have been eradicated and the dang er to the war bases averted, said Colonel Dache M. Reeves, com .manding the Air Support group which is a tactical unit of the First Air Force. The fate of those who built these potential devices of. destruction was not specifically detailed except that the announcement said that in each case investigation was made by First Air Force Intelligence of ficers and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the "proper ac tion taken.’’ Photographs showing clearly the subversive guides for enemy bombers were released along with the announcement, which describ ed their location only as in the eastern part of the United States. One of the markers utilized a natural footpath which had existed in a quiet country section for yearsg It appeared innocuous yet 500 yards from the end of the lane a large “V” was made by baring a section of earth and from the air the combination became a perfect arm#— pointing dead at an eastern air base. A large field was ploughed from one end to the other except for a middle section which was left fal low in another case. This untouch ed section — dark against the ploughed background — formed an arrow aiming at a nearby airplane factory. (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 2) United States Will Link Up With Burma Direct By Radio-Telegraph Net NEW YORK, Aug. 9— (TP) _ — Direct radio telegraph service between the United States and Bermuda will he inaugurated tomorrow by R. C. A. Com munications, Inc., Radio Cor poration of America announced today. The radio message circuit will link New York with Hamil ton. In the past, telegraph service with Bermuda had been operated by wire and cable via Canada. 12 alHd”vessels SUNK DURING WEEK Destruction Of Ships In At lantic Brings Announc ed Total To 419 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Destruction of 12 allied and meu tral merchant vessels by Axis sub marines operating in the Western Atlantic was disclosed in official announcements last week. At least 62 seamen and passen gers were killed and 52 others were reported missing. More than 740 persons, however, were rescued by United Nations’ craft and safely landed at Caribbean and United States ports. Sinkings since Aug. 2 included six Unted States merchantmen, two Norwegian, one British, one Russian, one Panamanian and one {Continued on Page Eight; Col. 1) RIOTS AND BLOODSHED EXPLODE OVER INDIA; GANDHI UNDER ARREST ---* - T SECRECY SHROUDS SABOTEURS’DEATH No Details Available As To Disposition Of Bodies Of Executed Men WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — (£>)— The same strict secrecy which sur rounded eight Nazi saboteur special ists during their trial for life before a military tribunal continued today to shroud six of them in death and the two who didn’t die. Office of War Information offici als said that details of the dispo sition of the bodies of the six who were executed in the district jail’s electric chair Saturday must come from the White House Sources there said Presidential Secretary Stephen Early, From whom such an announcement would normally be expected, probably would not be available today. Thus, an official curtain was drawn over the likely resting-place of the half dozen who landed from U-boats on a mission of sabotage but met instead swift and deadly justict. But Berlin knew that Heinrich Harm Heinch, Richard Quirin, Edward John Kerling, Herbert Hans Haupt, Werner Thiel and Hermann Otto Neubauer were dead. The British radio took care of that last night, broadcasting the news in several, languages to the Nazi dominated European continent. Snug in iron-barred safety, George John Dasch and Earnest i Peter Burger continued to live today. The help they gave the Government in sealing the fate of the other six brought commutation of their death sentences —Dasch’s to 30 years and Berger’s to life, both at hard labor. L NEW YORK, Aug. 9— (A5) —The Rome radio, heard here by CBS, offered the first Axis comment to night on the execution of the six (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3) vandenbIT asks STUDY OF EVENUE Calls For President To ‘Put Best Minds In Country’ On Finance Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. 9— (Ah — Senator Vandenberg (R — Mich) ruged today that President Roose velt put “the best fiscal minds of the country” at work immediately on a plan of war financing that would c o m b i n e taxation with government borrowing in one com prehensive program. Declaring that only haphazard attempts had been made thus far to meet the threat of inflation in herent in extensive government borrowings from commer cial banks, Vandenberg said he thought work on this question ought to be begun now, “not next month and not after the election.” “By the time the next tax bill gets before the Senate,” the Michi gan Senator told reporters, “Con gress will have spent nine months on an eight billion dollar segment of a fifty billion dollar program. Meanwhile, the Treasury with its voluntary bond purchase program, (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 5) To Lead Commandos R.-lUWWHHUW.WW. , . .... Col. Robert T. Frederick lias been named to command an Amer ican-Canadian force of super-com mandos just ordered into intensive training at Helena, Mont., and made up of picked specialists in parachute and marine landings. PICKED DIVISIONS SENT TO ENGLAND U. S. Forces Now Taking Over Some Defense Area In The British Isles WITH THE U. S. GROUND FORCES N ENGLAND, Aug. 9— (/P)—The American Army is sending “picked combat divisions” to Brit ain and “the sooner a second front could be opened the better,” Major General M. W. Clark, commanding general of U. S. Ground Forces in Britain declared today at his first press conference. American troops already have taken over some defense areas and have been fitted into the British plan to repel a Nazi invasion, the general said, and then added: “But obviously we are not here to sit on the defensive.” Shipping, he said, is the only bot tleneck in American plans, and not ed that his “exceedingly large staff” quartered with him in an old castle, is “ready to handle troops as fast as they come and they are coming by thousand upon thou sand.” As continental Europe awaited with increasing agitation a threat ened Allied invasion, the Russian news agency, Tass, reported from Geneva that a German motorized infantry battalion, a field artillery platoon and four m'dget tanks had arrived in Vichy, capital of unoc cupied France. Quoting “reliable sources” in its dispatch, Tass said the officers and men wore French uniforms, and that the’ arrival was believed to be connected with growing unrest in France. General Clark, who at 46, is one of the youngest generals to hold a key position in the American army, said that the arriving American troops have been train ed in amphibious warfare and are ready to invade the continent at once if necessary. . “We could profitably use six months more training, but this (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Nation Only Beginning To Hit Stride, Says FR President Roosevelt advised the , nation today that “great progress has been made in the battle of pro duction, but, in terms-of what will be required to defeat our enemies, we have only just begun to get into our stride.” His statement was read by El mer Davis, War Information direc tor and keynoted brief addresses by top government and labor officials, calling attention to the presentation tomorrow of the first of the new Army-Navy production awards to management and workers of 20 ma jor war plants. The program was carried by the Columbia Broad casting System. The President asserted that to “win this war, an unceasing flood of weapons and materials must pour forth from the factories, ship yards and mines of our country.” An Army-Navy production flag fly ing above a factor or mine, Mr. Roosevelt said, "will bear witness that management and labor there (Continued on Pare Two: Col. & Big Cargo Plane Service Across Atlantic Planned LOS ANGELES,Aug . 9— m — TWA is planning a trans-Atlantic air schedule designed eventually to send 24 huge cargoplanes daily across the ocean in the service of the U. S. Army. The airline said a regular five plane daily schedule will be inaug urated shortly. As soon as equip ment and crews are abailable. transocean flights every hour on the hour will be started. Brig. Gen. Harold Lee George, commanding officer of the Army Air Transport Command, author ized the announcement, Charles Hammond, TWA’s western person nel director, said. At the same time it was reported the company’s stratoliner planes, formerly operated between Los An geles and New York, have been flying the Atlantic for several month® 3 • W FRENZIED MOBS RISE Loot Shops, Battle Police, Burn Houses In Cam paign Of Violence ‘DO OR DIE' IS I SLOGAN Disregard Leader's Advict On Passive Resistance; ; Many Strikes \ BOMBAY, Aug. 9.—(/P)—. Mohandas K. Gandhi’s new do-or-die campaign to cast off the British rule in India ex ploded into bloodshed and riotous violence today. Frenzied mobs, rising at their leader’s call, looted shops, battled police, stopped trams and burned buses and police posts in heedless violation of i Gandhi’s own cautious counsel tc> stick strictly to passive civil dis* obedience. The British Government of India, alert to the challenge to public or der in this vital pillar of an embat tled empire, promptly arrested 72 year-old Gandhi and all his prin cipal collaborators in the National ist-All-India Congress Party, and met the outbreaks with tear gas and direct gunfire. The All-India Congress Party and its committees were officially des ignated as unlawful organiations dangerous to the public peace. Greatest of all the unruly ast semblies in Bombay was a mass Ji Park n the heart of the city Ob Ji Park in the heart of the city Olj lufo. Police broke up the gathering by using smoky, short-lived tear gas for the sixth time since morning, but not before speakers read and distributed to the crowd this mes sage from Gandhi: “Every man is free to go to the fullest length under Ahimsa (non* violence) for complete deadlock by strikes and all other possible means.” (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) MAIKOP^ CAPTURED IS GERMAN CLAIM Nazis Say Oil Region Tak en And Foothills Of Caucasus Reached BERLIN (From German Broad casts) Aug. 9—GP)—Mechanized de tachments of the German army stormed and captured tonight the town of Maikop, center of the im portant oil region on the northern edge of the Caucasus, the hig>. command announced in the second of two special communiques issued since noon. The first of the two claimed Nazi troops had taken the Cacasian city of Krasnodar about 60 miles northwest of Maikop. The regular communique said Axis troops had reached the foothills of the Cau casus on a 250-mile front. (Krasnodar which had a popula tion of about 225,000 in peace times, lies on the navigable Kuban river, and is an important railway junc The special communique said German infantry divisions, sup ported by the air force, broke through strongl fortified positions (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) CD Needs Auxiliary Firemen: 173 (MEN ONLY) Duties: Similar to regular firefighting forces. Training: General course, Fire Defense A, and B, First Aid, 10 hours. Enlisted to date: 27. Quota: 200. Enlistments yesterday: Red Cross _ 16 Air Raid Warden _ 1 Medical Corps _ 1 Control Room__ 1 Auxiliary Firemen.. 1 | TOTAL. 20

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