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Pj^d By Leased Wire Of The , ^ ^^ ! -m.-tlmittgiim Miirning iter rilF WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. Nazis rush Steadily ( fotvard Grozny Oil In Lightning Thrusts apaA Mineralnye Vody, * Only HO M1Ies From Rich Fuel Region MOSCOW HNE BLAZES fjew Fighting Breaks Out In Sector Northwest Of Red Capital MOSCOW. Friday. Aug. 14. m _ German troops in a ’rift 50-mile advance into he Caucasus have reached jlineralnye Vody. only 140 air line miles from the rich Russian oil wells of Grozny, the Soviets acknowledged of ficially early today as heavy fighting broke out on the long-dormant iront northwest of Moscow. . . A Nazi column swinging southeastward along the Ros tov-Baku railway rolled through Russia's positions in the Cherkessk area to reach Jlineralnye Vody. By road Grozny lie? approxi mately 180 miles farther. [little manse The midnlsht communique other vise indicated little change-in Rus situation. The Red army still was battling the Nazis northeast of j- iniK-nvski below tile Don and in • Kietskaya area inside the Don liver bend. Both areas are bulwarks i . the i pproaclte* to Stalingrad on Hi,. y,,iga and Astrakhan on the O Ain sea. In "he western Caucasus the Soviets said their troops still were fighting in the Maikop - Krasnodar sectors in an effort to prevent a German break - through to the Black Sea. Filling on the banks of a river Ipernaps the Kuban) in the Kras (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) j AIY PUBLICITY 10 BE REVAMPED Sthson, Angered By ‘Air Marker’ Story Announ ces Shake-Up WASHINGTON. Aug. 13— l.fl — j Secretary of War Stimson. obvious 1" angered at the ‘'fifth column air-marker" -tory. iodav annnunc td a thorough shake - up of the A'wys nublicity staff which, he st"rI- would make another such in cident impossible. The reorganization he told re porters. had been ordered into ef fect even before Army press rela tion officers at Mitchel Field re leased a story, with pictures, of u-e arrows and other direction icauers on the ground pointing to airports and defense plants. ne was an arrow-shaped clear f- !n a w°od. which was later found to have been a bird sanctu - ■ mvned by the state of New nwe)'/n0t,her 'vas an arrange ." 0 sacks in the shape of a i‘aMle "T 'vith the tail, it was ji ;.poiatln8 to an airport. Inves igation disclosed that a farmer on tossed fprn-S^0re °f Virginia had ini tri, f !lzer bags from a mov ' ucl< to dry them in the sun. |Clmlim^ „„ Paee Thrco. Co|_ 4) SHERMANCONFERS WITH PROSECUTOR ‘jj ^anbing Naval Officer U'scusses Publication Of ‘Vital News’ t *SdtCatGp ^ 13~ <ff) -Rear I W* Frederick C. Sherman, I cattit, I°rnrnander of the aircraft I office, exiagton. and other naval [ prosem', erred with a special ' Wand today as a federal Publicat!? ,began investigating •iai" na.a.of allegedly "confiden large no), ‘‘lformation by three , ne>ers Hribune ,Ptlpcl's are "re Chicago Hews and ,,C New York Daily Herald whi k Washmgton Times June 7 Published the article Intense quiry an , reerccy guarded the in WiUian, o 16 P.nly statement from sistant to tv ^'tchell, special as tecling fi, * . Attorney General, di "I Wjn ,lnvestigation, was: any t;nie lssue no statements at Cases jn r never tried any of my too old to , newspapers and I am 10 heln vr„ art now- 1 would like sf|aid v"ou newsmen out but I am a"y releases””01 count on me for i ,H'nUt<1 *»*« Ikree; Col. 4) NAzisCHALLENGED BY U. S. AIR FORCE American Fighters Roar Over English Channel To Combat Enemy LONDON, Aug. 13— W —Ameri can fighter squadrons roaring over the English channel on 31 sorties ended the first 48 hours of great activity by United States Army Air Forces in the European theatre to day just as 250 to 400 RAF bombers were returning from a second con secutive night of destructive at tacks on Mainz in the Rhinel.and. The disclosure that all-American fighting squadrons, flying Britisn Spitfire planes, had challenged the German airforce over France and the channel came as huge Ameri can four - motored bombers were poised on takeoff aprons over the country, likewise ready to partici pate with the RAF in the aerial destruction of Germany’s wgr foun dries and her bases in occupied western Europe. oucn intensified aerial warfare is a necessary forerunner to the op ening of a second front in Europe. The U. S. fig]- er formations, op erating from American . managed airports manned by American ground crews, flew with RAF squadrons on three offensive sweeps into France, conducted 20 sorties over the sea and participat ed in eight interception missions off the coast of England, between 9 a. m. Monday and 9 a. m. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -v Roosevelt Orders Knox To Take Over Operation Of General Cable Plant j WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—OP) *—President Roosevelt ordered Navy Secretary Knox tonight to take over and operate the plant of the General Cable cor poration at Bayonne, N. J. This action followed a vote of a thousand workers at the plant which has orders for cable vital to war operations, to continue a strike which be gan Monday. Presidential Secretary Steph en Early told reporters; “The President, at 6 o’clock tonight, signed an executive order directing the Secretary of the Navy to take over the plant of the General Cable corpora tion, and operate same, at Bay onne. N. J.” The workmen at the plant stopped production, although this step was not ordered by their union, in protest against a decision by the War Labor Board adverse to their de mands for a pay increase. FIRE LOSS HERE $7,068 IN JULY Building Valuation Which Had Fires Reported To Be $97,200 Although buildings and contents where fires occurred in the city during July were valued at $97,200, damage totalled only $7,068.13, ac cording to the report presented o City Manager A. C. Nichols by Fire Chief J. Luddie Croom. Of the total $94,700 was the value ct the buildings with the loss by fire amounting to $6,018.13. Con tents in the buildings, valued at 32,500, were damaged to the extent of $25. All of the losses were cov ered by insurance except property valued at $25. The buildings and contents were insured for a total of $72,000. Causes of the 26 alarms during the month were: false 5, short cir cuit 3, carelessness 5, automobiles (Continued on Page Six; Col. 4) Axis Claims On Convoys Are Wrong, Say British LONDON, Aug. 13— <A>> —Blatant Axis claims of continuing, damag ing attacks on a major Allied con voy in the western Mediterranean were branded “inaccurate” by the Admiralty tonight and U. S. Naval headquai'ters declined to comment on a German assertion that the U. S. carrier Wasp had been set afire by six bomb hits and was trying to reach Malta. Germany and Italian claims that two cruisers, a destroyer and ten steamers had been sunk brought this f»itement from the Admiralty: “Tonight’s official announce-1 ments (on losses! are inaccurate! and no reliance should be placed in them.” An official British report is ex pected tomorrow. The Axis claims said damaged ships included a battleship, two carriers and “numerous other steamers and men-of-war,” some so seriously that their skining "may be assumed.” None of the Axis claims was con firmed from any other source, and past German and Italian reports of sea triumphs almost invariably have proven grossly exaggerated (Continued on Paj;e Three; Coi. 3) Air Activity Begins Anew Over Desei S' Australians Bomb German Lighters, Leave One On Fire, Others Are Hit AXIS AIRFIELDS HIT RAF Smashes At Flying Port On Rhodes Island With Success CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 13.— (A5)—Light bombers of the Australian air force today at tacked enemy motor lighters used to supply German Mar shal Erwin Rommel’s army and sank two in an action several hours after medium RAF bombers carried out a series of attacks on the Axis island of Rhodes. The two lighters brought to 13 sunk and two probably sunk the total bag of this squadron against the enemy lighters, which have been in creasingly used in the last month. The first plane scored three direct hits on one lighter. Bomb Rhodes Airdrome “There was a terrific flash mid ships and its guns ceased to fire,” the pilot said. The pilot of the next plane said he saw the vessel sinking rapidly in the midst of a widening splotch of oil on the sea. As the squadron departed the sec ond lighter also was observed going down. The main feature of last night’s air war was the thrust at Rhodes. Bombs straddled 30 Axis planes at (Continued on Pate Twelve; Col. S) NAZIS THREATENING TO MURDER SERBIA Yugoslav Government In Exile Reports German Ul timatum To 2nd Front LONDON, Aug. 13— UP) —The Yugoslav government in London announced tonight that the Ger mans have threatened to wipe out all of Siberia if continuing disor ders in that Balkan land forces them to increase the size of their occupation army. This official report was released while talk of an Allied second front was rife in all Europe and executions, disorders and arrests continued unabated in virtually all occupied countries in spite of or ders from the refugee governments to their people to hold off until the proper moment—the second front, presumaDiy—arrives. Several hundred Serb boys hav“ been sent to concentration camps or deported to prevent them from joining guerrilla bands, the Yugo slavs said. Early in August, the exile gov ernment added, German General Turned, military commander of oc cupied Serbia, told several hundred civic representatives in Belgrade that “if the German military com mand is compelled to use one more soldier than the present occupying force for the suppression of disor ders this will mean the annihila tion of Serbia.” Indicative of the fighting in Yugoslavia, the Berlin radio broad cast a report that the Yugoslavias lost 3,000 dead and 9,700 taken prisoner between July 23 and Aug ust 8. The second front idea is ever present; the Nazi press and radio and movies are constantly telling the Germans of preparations made to resist it; France is jittery over its possibilities; the Italians have been assured by Premier Mus solini there would be no second front in Italy or elsewhere. (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 5) Germans Believed Driving For Junction With Japs ‘1——i\-r....:...:.'...:... 1 ■■»... ■■ — ■■ ■ ■■ ■■ mmsmrn ■« ™-•—----. - Military experts regard the over-all Axis strategy as involving plans for a German drive into the Middle East through the Russian Caucasus (2) and from Egypt (3) for a junction with Japs pushing into India (4) when the Monsoons there stop. American smashes at Japs in the A eutians (6) and the Solomon islands (7) were seen—aside from being the first United Nations’ offensive in the Pacific—as diversions which might cost the Japanese some of their forces needed for a possible drive into Russian Siber a (5). The projected British-American second front (1) against Germany could divert Nazi troops needed in the push to the east. Internal Disorders Subsiding In India As Police Keep Watch --1k —- * SERVICE PAY ACT PASSES IN HOUSE Empowers Army, Navy To Make Family Stipend Ready At Once WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.— <.T> — Over War department opposition, the house passed and sent to a less-receptive senate today legisla tion empowering the Army and Navy to make benefit payments available immediately to dependents of the nation's service men. The original allowance and allot ment act' passed last June provided that payments to dependents start securing as of June 1 but that ac tual delivery of checks be withheld until November 1 to allow time to | set up administrative machinery. The withholding provision, com plained Representative Rankin (D Miss), sponsor of the legislation passed today, wras causing hard ships in many needy cases. Ran kin’s amendment simply made it permissible, not mandatory, for the departments to send out checks im mediately. None of the less than thirty house members present objected to the bill, but Representative Eber harter (D-Fa), who had blocked its consideration last week, served no tice that unless checks were dis tributed at least three or four weeks before the November elec tions, he would press for another amendment to require them to be (Continned on 1-are Twelve; Col. 2) WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina—Little change in tem perature, scattered showers coastal sec tion Friday. (Meteorological dav 'or the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. y- .lay): (EASTERN STA ‘ O TIME) (By U. S. Wet 6 jicau) Temper o re: 1:30 a. m. 77: 7:30 a. m. 77: * 30 p. m. 56; 7:30 p. m. 80; maximum 87, • inimum 72; mean 80; normal 78. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 91; 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:3C 53; 7:30 p. m. 82. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:o0 3. m., 0.90 inches: total since the first 3f the month. 4.75 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey):_ High Low Wilmington -11:20a. 6:15a. ll:35p. 6:14p. Vlasonboro Inlet_ 8:59a. 2:57a. 9:llp. 3:llp. Sunrise 5:33a; sunset 7:00p; moonrise 7:52a; moonset 8:39p. (The Wilmington Weather Bureau reported last night that the Cape Fear river is expected to rise to state 26.0 feet tonight). (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 3) Bombay Quiet And Life Ap parently Returning To Normal In New Delhi BOMBAY, Aug. 13—(A1)—India’s civil disorders apparently were subsiding tonight with armed police and troops in watchful control of the main trouble centers of the week’s earlier outbursts against British rule in a campaign which Mohandas K. Gandhi had pledged to non-violence. Bombay was quiet. Workers were returning to mills which they had quit Monday and Tuesday. At New Delhi, India’s capital, some shops still were closed, but people were moving freely through streets which yesterday were the scenes of repeated disorders. (The India office announced in London that reports which it had received were “encouraging,” and said conditions in Bombay and Old Delhi, where police fired into riot ing crowds three times yesterday, were “much nearer normal.” (“From some provinces includ ing Bengal, the Punjab and Mad ras,” the Indian office statement said, “only very few isloated inci dents were reported . . . The gen (Continued on Paice Twelve; Col. 4) MOLZAHN FORGIVES FEDERAL LAWYER Lutheran Minister Tells Prosecutor He Is Pardon ed For Accusations HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 13—(/PI —The Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn as serted today that assistant Prose cutor Joseph P. Cooney had accus ed him of being “the head of the Gestapo” before his indictment on an espionage conspiracy charge, and publicly “forgave” the govern ment attorney for making the ac cusation. The Lutheran pastor, who denied yesterday the Government’s allega tion that he permitted his Philadel phia parsonage to be used as “post office” by a Nazi spy ring, made his statement during a rig orous, day-long cross-examination that had not yet ended when court adjourned until tomorrow. Cooney had asked him whether he testified under oath before the Grand jury which indicted him and four others on charges they plotted to furnish military secrets to Ger many and Japan, and the clergy man replies, “I think so.” "Do you mean you don’t know (Continued on Fa»e Three; Col. 1) BOEING COMPANY MAY STOP WORK Official Of Airplane Fac tory Testifies On Effect Of New Taxes WASHINGTON, Aug. 13— Ufl — An airplane manufacturing offi cial testified today that unless ex cess profits tax provisions were lightened the proposed new reven ue bill “probably would end the ex istence” of the Boeing Aircraft Corp., which developed the Army’s “Flying Fortress’* bombers. This gloomy forecast came from H. E. Bowman of Seattle, treasurer of the Bo.vng company, as the Senate Finance Committee worked late to hear the last of 50 witnesses in an effort to end pub lic hearings on the House - approv ed measure. cowman sam me mreatenea plight ol the Boeing company — which was shared by other aircraft manufacturers — arose from the fact that it had spent most of its earnings in pre - war years to de velop new types of equipment. Because its invested caital was relatively small and its earnings | in the 1930 - 39 base period were !low, he said, 96.6 per cent of its net income would be subject to the proposed 90 per cent excess profits levy, with the result that taxes would eat up 88.75 per cent of all its profits. This meant, he declared, that the company could not continue to op erate, adding: “It is curious that I should be here to plead for the life of this company at a time when, in Seat (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) U. S. Working Steadily On English Airdromes By WES GALLAGHER WITH THE U. S. AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, Aug. 13.—CP)—Erst while American football stars are digging ditches and some of the best civilian and army aviation experts of the United States are converting centuries-old English estates into great air bases in a rush to send hundreds of bombers over Germany daily. I completed a 1,000-mile air tour of United States bases in Britain today with Maj. Gen. Walter Hale Frank, chief of the Service Com mand, to get a first-hand view of ' the vast aerial smash the U. S. Air it Forces are planning. American en gineering ingenuity is preparing for the offensive at dazzling speed. The U. S.' air effort in this the atre dwarfs by far anything pre viously attempted by any nation in trying to build up a vast striking force thousands of miles away lrctn home. Plans are weeks ahead of schedule under the direction of Gen. Frank, who has spent much of his life as a tactical airman and pro tests that he "knows nothing about this service end of the business.” I In two days’ flying in a troop! transport with Gen. Frank at the i {Continued on P*ie Three; Col. 4) I ATLANTIC SINKINGS TOLL REACHES 422 Loss Of Two Small Cuban Merchantmen Boosts To tal Qf Sub Victims (By The Associated Press) Destruction of two small Cuban merchantmen by enemy subma rines in the Gulf of Mexico was announced yesterday by the Cuban Navy General staff, while Brazilian sources disclosed that cruisers may have joined the hunt for an Axis surface raider following recent at tacks on Allied shipping in the South Atlantic. Keports irom mo ae Janeiro in dicated the cruisers may have planes to supplement the search which was said to be under way following radioed reports last Mon day that at least two United Na tions vessels, about 1,000 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, had been at tacked by a marauding surface craft. The Cuban Nav ystaff reported the ships sunk in the Gulf were the 1,685-ton Sant • ;o de Cuba and the 1,025-ton Manzanillo, and that five; crewmen were known dead and 26 others missing. All but three of the 27 seamen who were rescued were (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -V-• — SEC Orders Power Groups To Sell 16 Of Utilities; Tide Water Power Included PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.— (A1)—In a step toward breaking up the gigantic Associated Gas and Electric corporation sys tem, the Securities and Ex change commission today or dered the corporation trustees to dispose of 116 utilities in 24 states and the Philippine is lands. Among the companies order ed disposed of is the Tide Wa ter Power company of Wil mington, N. C. U. S. Warships Hurling Death Into Nip Lines Yank Parachutists Hitting Enemy For The First Time In History MARINES CLOSING IN Leathernecks Are Drawing Nearer To Vital Naval Base Of Tulagi GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Austra lia, Aug. 13.—(JP)—American Marines slashing through the “green hell” jungles of the Solomon islands were report ed hurling the Japanese back from at least three beach heads in the 900-mile-long is land chain tonight wdiile United States and Allied war ships rained death into enemy positions. Latest reports indicated that the Leathernecks, spear heading an assault which may develop into a United Nations grand offensive to drive the invaders out of the South seas, were _ making steady progress against bit ter resistance. Big Reinforcements Coming Unconfirmed advices said Ameri can parachute troops, making their first historic appearance in battle, were used as shock forces in the attack. Strong American reinforcements were said to be pouring into the seven-day-old battle as the Japa nese fought desperately to hold their strategic island bases 900 miles northeast of Australia. Observers here surmised that Al lied warships were bringing up fresh reinforcements and landing (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) BIG JAPCONVOYS SEEN NEAR CHINA Ships Spotted In Gulf Of Tonkin; May Be Prelude To New Indian Move CHUNGKING, Aug. 13 — — A Japanese transport fleet carry ing more than 20,000 troops was seen in the Gulf of Tonkin last Saturday—the day before United States bombers based in China blasted Haiphong, French Indo - China port on the gulf—a Chinese Army spokesman disclosed to night. (There, was no immediate indi cation whether the aerial attack had any relation with the troop ship movement. The Chinese spokesman said he had no infor mation where the convoy was (Continued on Page Two; Col. *) .-1 CD Needs DRIVERS CORPS: 213 (Men And Women) Duties: Cars and drivers as signed to first aid squads, cas ualty stations and control cen ter. Training: General Course; gas Detensj B, first aid—10 hours. Enlisted to date: 37. Quota: 250. ENLISTMENTS YESTERDAY Air Raid Wardens. 10 Medical Corps . 3 Auxiliary Firemen . I Spotter . 1 Total . 15
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