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Aug. 14 M) 'resident Roosevelt hailed the At untie Charter, on its first anni ersarv today, as the basis of a nt and happy post-war world. It was one year ago today thal e and Prime Minister Winstor h’1 -chill, rjeting on a warship n the north Atlantic, signed that listoric document. It was a joint xrression of the principles for t'ch Britain was fiahting and on hioh the United States, then a on. belligerent, was helping that ation. Its bases for a post-war settlc lent were: No territorial gains. Nr. territorial changes except as pnroved by the people affected. Respect for the rights of all peo ie to choose their own forms of overameot. Noual access by all nations to i'_-c trade and raw materials. , ™ international economic col aoorafion. Bile establishment of a peace as P1."!? safef.v of all nations. ' aeir freedom from want and ear. Freedom 0f the seas. • bandonment of the use of force Jr,nitl0ns- and the disarma ion 0f those threatening aggres Reaffirming this declaration, Mr. 'Continued o„ Pagc Three. Co, g) ®E IS WITNESS IN HOLZAHN TRIAL Confessed Spy Ring Mem ber Tries To Clear Lutheran Pastor 'Afte^r01?' Conn- Aug- 14—Iff Wesser? ard. ^Uhelm Kunze, isserteH , jP' rin*? member, had S. b. >,„ °d.ay that the Rev. Kurl 11 a Plot tnWhad played no pari ary secmt d? 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"i , re a Nazi, aren’t you?’ !y lu hccoir^oj the opportun C°“ll“Uea ,n pa*e Three; Col. 3) Naval Officer Declares U.S. Could Take Kiska If It Was Needed PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 14(1P)— The Japanese “have a toehold as a potential threat” in the western most Aleutians but the situation “is not serious” said a ranking naval officer today who returned recently from that area. The main concentration of ene my forces is in the Kiska area, 600 miles west of Dutch Harbor, this source asserted. They may have ten thousand troops in Kiska, but they face difficulty digging in, as that requires dynamiting. “While I can not discuss strateg ic operations,” said the officer, "I might say if we needed Kiska we could take it. Offensive operations always are costly against a de fended position.” The name of the officer can not be disclosed for security reasons. His comment was made in the first official interview here with a par ticipant in the Aleutians fightng. “If the Japanese try for a major attack they are due for d surprise,” said the officer. The impression given was that operations are to be conducted so hold.Harassinga ETA SHR SHR SH for the Japanese to maintain their (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) SOLDIER POLLTAX MAY BE RESCINDED Senate Committee Appears Ready To Junk Clause On Army Voting WASHINGTON, Aug. 14— Uf> — Members of the Senate elections committee appeared ready today to junk a controversial poll tax clause in the interest of swift pas sage of a bill permitting members of the armed forces to vote by ab sentee ballots as long as they re mained in the continental United States. Senator Pepper (D.-Fla.) urged the committee to adopt his amend ment removing the poll tax re quirement, which prevails in six southern states, as a voting pre requisite for soldiers, sailors, ma rines and Coast Guardsmen. Senator Lucas (D. - 111.) said a (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA—Little change in temperature today. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): EASTERN STANDARD TIME (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: J..30 a. m. 78; 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:30 p. m. 85; 7:30 p. m. 81; maximum 88; minimum 1C lean 82; normal 78. Humidity: a. m. 90; 7:30 a. m. 86: • p. m. V ^ P* m- 79. < • • Precipitation: ; tl for the ‘'4 hours ending 7:30 ’ p. l >.01 inches; total since the first of t>. ic ith, 4.7f inches. s TIDES FOR TODAY: (Fi Tide Tab published by U. S. . Coast} \ 1 y';-’ j Survey): < \ High Low Wilmi) _a. 6:51a. t 12:04p. 6:52p. ’ Masonf Inlet_ 9:41a. 3:36a. . vif 9:52p. 3:55p Sun i*-e 5: :33a; sunset 6:59p; moonrise 8:51a; moonset 9:14p. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) TAX BILL TO PASS CONGRESS SHORTLY Expected To Be Approved Before October; Measure Largely Revised WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—VPi — Senate passage before October 1 of a substantially revised tax bill was predicted today by chairman George (D-Ga) as the finance com mittee wound up three weeks of public hearings on the new revenue measure voted by the House in July. Although George declined to spe culate on detailed changes in the bill, which would add $6,271,000, 000 to yearly federal revenues as it passed the House, he told re porters that testimony taken by the committee had made it ap parent to him, at least, that some alterations were necessary in ma jor sections of the measure. Business Representatives have concentrated most of their criti (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) . —rv—— Wilmingtonian Injured In Navy Airplane Crash WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Iff) Navy hospital officials said to night that Ensign Edward C. Willingham, 24, formerly of Wilmington, N. C., and Aviation Cadet Robert Frederick Will kie, 21, who were injured in the crash of their naval training plane near Clinton, Md., Wed nesday, were still “seriously ill but improving.’’ The two wer£ stationed at a reserve aviation base here and were on a routine flight when injured. Willing am’s address was listed as general agent, At lantic Coast Line railroad, Nor folk, Va., and 1516 V street, Washington. Willkie’s address was given as Prospect, Ky. natioTaTcrisis OVER WAR EFFORTS Representative Tolan De clares War Production Needs ‘Civilian Boss’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — (tf) — Re - asserting that the nation faced a crisis in its war effort, Chairman Tolan (D —Calif) of the House Committe on Defense Mi gration, declared tonight that the arms production program needed a civilian boss “who doesn’t have to be afraid of anybody.” Tolan said Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, had been given broad pow ers by President Roosevelt to get needed tools of war built, but that he had given most of this power to the Army and Navy. He recited reports of shortages of vital materials and shut downs of war plants and declared they threatened America’s present mili tary positions abroad. "The time has come,” siad To lan, “for Mr. Nelson to use the (Continued on Pare Two; Col. 8) Nazis Pierce Soviet Lines On Don River / Drive Through Defenders South Of Kletskaya, Near Stalingrad KRASNODAR BREACHED Russians Reveal Germans Break Through In South western Caucasus MOSCOW, Saturday, Aug. 15. — (lP) — German troops fighting toward Stalingrad in the Don river bend were re ported officially early today to have pierced Russian posi tions south of Kletskaya, 75 miles northwest of Stalin grad. To the south of Elets kaya,” a Russian communi que said, “our troops fought fierce battles against an ene my group which had broken through to a river.” The communique indicated the Germans had reached the Don river because Eletskaya is only a short distance from the Don, the last natural de fense barrier west of the im portant Volga river port of Stalingrad. Germans Lose Heavily (The German * controlled Paris radio reported that Siberian troops had arrived to bolster the Stalin grad front and that German air men “heavily strafed these newly, arrived divisions.”) The Russians also acknowledged a Nazi break-through in the Kras nodar area in the southwestern Caucasus despite heavy losses in flicted on the Germans. “On one of the sectors,’’ the communique said of this front which is northeast'of the Black sea port of Novorossick, “the enemy at the cost of large forces was (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) -V MORE EXECUTIONS BEGIN IN EUROPE Germans And Italians Kill ing Many In Occupied Countries As Reprisals LONDON, Aug. 14— (JP) —Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier of the Polish government in London, an nounced the formation of a Polish armored motor corps for “a future offensive on the continent” today as the spirit of rebellion appeared to be on the rise in Nazi-trampled Europe despite executions and re plisals. From Norway, wzecnosiovaxia. Holland, France and Greece came reports of punishment for sabotage and anti-Nazi activities, while via the Moscow radio the French were advised to “prepare for armed struggle” because “the real fight is at hand.” Fighting French head quarters here declined to comment on the broadcast but dispatches from the Soviet capital quoted Roger Garreau, fighting French representative in Moscow, as mak ing a plea to prepare for open in surrection. The greatest tension was exper ienced in Holland where a midnight deadline had been set for the ar rest of saboteurs who last week wrecked a Nazi military train near Rotterdam. The execution of an unannounced number of 1,600 hos tages was threatened by the Nazis unless the saboteurs surrendered or their identities were disclosed to the authorities. Dutch government officials here openly expressed fears a greater number of victims than originally faced execution might be killed be (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Oil Company Reveals Little Trick Of Conserving Precious Gasoline PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14.—(A>)— By employing a simple, inexpen sive trick discovered years ago and forgotten in America’s mad rush for speed and power on the high ways, gas hungry motorists can get 30 to 40 per cent more mileage from precious gallons of gasoline. Details of the method, which in volves operating passenger auto mobiles on half their cylinders and minor carburetors adjustments, were disclosed today by Sun Oil engineers for the benefit of some 1,500,000 car owners on the eastern seaboard who are fretting over the gas problem. “It’s the state of what we think every motorist should agree to,’ said J. N. Pew, Sun Oil president. “It’s only the beginning of things that can be accomplished if really great automotive engineers will pick up where we leave off and carry on this research.” As explained by John G. Moxey, assistant chief engineer of the com pany’s research department, the method boils down to three steps: Removing valve ’ifters from ev ery other cylinder so that both in take and exhaust valves remain closed; pinching together the points on spark plugs in the non-working cylinders so there will be no igni tion spark; and carburetor adjust ments to cut the flow of gasoline. Some carburetors require two new parts, a larger metering pin and a low speed jet. Other ca buretors can be adjusted by block. ; ing off half of the working unit. The two new parts, Pew said, are not available at present, but carbu retor manufacturers have indicated they will stock them. The whole operation, Pew said.! costs about “a day’s labor and a. couple of dollars for the new parts if needed.” Tests still are being made with eight cars, all of the popular six (Continued on Pare Three; Col. i) AMERICAN BOMBERS BA TTER JAP CON VO Y; U. S. GRIPS SOLOMONS Marines Landing In The Southwest Pacific Traveling in speedy landing boats, United States Marines leave a Navy transport (right background) and roar toward an island somewhere in the southwest Pacific. This landing was unopposed by the Jabs, but a similar landing by the Marines in the „ Solomon Islands led to the battle still raging there. This is a Marine Corps photo. BIG MALTA CONVOY HIT HARD BY AXIS British Announce Loss Of Carrier And Cruiser In Mediterranean LONDON, Aug. 14 M’l — A British convoy defied swarms of Axis warplanes, submarines and torpedo boats and fought its way through bomb - splashed seas, to deliver supplies to the embattled mid - Mediterranean fortress of Malta at the cost of the cruiser Manchester and the aircraft car rier Eagle, the Admiralty announc ed today. Axis claims of sinking zi cargo ; ships, two destroyers and three j cruisers as well as the Eagle were curtly branded as known exaggera tions by the Admiralty statement. The Axis also claimed damage to two battleships, two carriers and an unspecified number of other ships. The bulk of the British ships, shepherded b y several British battleships as well as aircraft car riers, weathered what was believ ed to have been the heaviest air attack yet directed against a Med iterranean convoy. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) -V Nazi Bund Youth Leader Charged With Conspiracy, Tenders Plea Of Guilty NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—(/P)— Hugo Richard Steimle, 29-year old youth leader of the German Americau Bund, pleaded guilty today to an indictment alleging conspiracy to counsel Bund members to violate the Alien Registration Act. Federal Judge Eugene Rice remainded Steimle to jail pend ing the trial of 25 other Bund leaders named in the indictment and in another indictment charg ing some of them with counsel ling Bund members to violate the Selective Service Act. Tlie indictments, returned July 7, named 29 leaders of the Bund living in all parts of the nation. Three already have pleaded guilty. The trial of the 25 is scheduled to begin Aug. 18. Indian Lull Disrupted As Police Fire On Mob BOMBAY. India, Saturday, Aug. 15.—(rP)—Eight demonstra tors were wounded today when police fired into a crowd of demonstrators in Calcutta, end ing a period of quiet in the All Imlia Congress party’s campaign for independence for India. The demonstrators in India’s great eastern city interfered with street car service, cut tele phone wires and smashed fire alarm boxes. Me,unted police dispersed a crowd at Rajkot which attempt ed to picket the secretariat of tile Western Indian States agency. Delhi was quiet but two big extile mills and one flour mill still were closed. Before the latest flare-ups, Mohandas Gandhi's campaign for immediate indepedence had slowed almost to a standstill last night, with evidence of a quiet boycott against British rule. The firm measures of the Brit ish government in India had ■ quieted the initial outbreaks so effectively that some Indians and newspapers like the Bom bay Chronicle suggested yester day that the time had come for the government to negotiate a settlement. The government gave no sign of taking such a step. OPA WILL SMASH BLACK MARKETS Surface ‘Only Scratched’ Say Attorneys As Investi gation Begins CLEVELAND, Aug. 14 — (JP) — OPA attorneys, threatening crim inal actions, said tonight a suit filed here "Only scratched the sur. face” in their nation - wide drive to break a "black market”- in steel, no. 1 war commodity. Accusing steer operator wir lard P. Markle of charging 68 per cent in excess of legal ceiling prices, the OPA attorneys today obtained a temporary injunction against the former Houston, Tex., warehouseman. Their civil suit said he had bought 80 tons of steel and sold it to the New Orleans shipbuilding interests of Andrew J. Higgins. Judge Robert N. Wilkin set the suit for hearing Aug. 24. Markle, who is in a Cleveland hospital for removal of a cataract, told a reporter the steel he sold was fabricated material on which he knew of no ceiling prices. “Those men are talking through their hats when they say I made 68 per cent profit,” the 72-year-old defendant declared. "I sold at prices based on cost plus freight rates, allowing a small profit for (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Chilean President To Visit Nation At FDR’s Invitation SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 14 VP) President Juan Antonio Rios will leave about mid-October to visit the United States at President Roosevelt’s invitation, ar informed source said today, and a prominent newspaper pointed out the Chilean executive would have a chance to “clarify our present position” re garding the Axis. El Mercurio said “it is no secret our relations with the North Ameri can Democracy has suffered through an erroneous interpretation which some circles have given on the attitude of Chile toward the war. “It seems necessary to seek new methods to clarify our present po sition and there is no doubt the personal contact of the presidents of Chile and the United States will bring a complete understanding of our respective viewpoint-.” Chile and Argentina are the only South American nations which have not cut diplomatic ties with the Axis. 3 NAVY ACTS FAST IN PLANT STRIKE Takes Over Large Cable Company; Employes‘Glad ‘Uncle Sam Is Boss’ BAYONEE, N J, Aug 14-14* The Navy seized the General Cable company’s Bayon plant today to end a wildcat walkout and the strikers enthusiastically returned to work for “Uncle Sam, our new boss” “We’re all damn’ glad it happen ed.” said Michael P. Petrakian, strike committe chairman “Wt have a real boss!” But the y jubilation brought from Washington indication the Government had no intention of turning the seizure into a victory for workers who had walked out of their jobs despite the pleas of the War Labor Board and their own union leaders The strike began Monday mid night when 1,000 workers tied up production of cable for Army and Navy after the War Labor Baord (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) HIT REINFORCEMENTS Allied Planes Are Combing South Seas For Signs Of Enemy Shipping MAY BE VICTORY HOLD Navy Announces Task Of Consolidating Beach Heads Progressing • GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Austra lia, Aug. 13.— (/P) —Flying fortresses and fast attack bombers of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s command were reported battering a Japanese naval convoy in a continuing action tonight off New Guinea to prevent the enemy from reinforcing his Solomon Is lands garrisons, already hard pressed by the driving U. S. Marines and the great guns of the Pacific fleet. Australians looked in vain in their newspapers for fresh news of the battle of the Solo mons, which lie 1,100 miles northeast of Australia. Informed sources said press and radio reports from Aus tralia purporting to give specific details of the battle were largely guess work. Since the offensive erupted a. week ago, the Australians and General MacArthur have released no news on the ebb and flow of the battle. All statements have come from Washington or Pearl Harbor, headquarters of A d m i r a 1 Chester W. Nimitz, comman der of the Pacific fleet. Air Superiority Won Close as the Solomons are to Australia and vital as they are to strategy in the South Pacific, the operations there are not MacAr thur’s show and the general has fined his reports to the important but supporting action of American and Australian airmen under his command. (Japan issued a reversed and wholly unconfirmed claim that 35 Allied warhips and transports were sunk and five damaged. Imperial headquarters in Tokyo said 13 Brit ish and American cruisers, nine destroyers, ten transports and three submarines were destroyed along with 58 Allied planes. A cruis er, transport and three destroyers were said to have been damaged. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -v 87 MEN RESCUED FROM 3 VESSELS Latest Sinkings Announced By Navy Boost Atlantic Total To 425 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The rescue of 87* seamen from three torpedoed merchantmen at attacked by enemy submarines in western Atlantic waters was dis closed in dipatches from Recife, Brazil, yesterday. The latest victims of undersea raiders—the 4,694-ton British freighter Treminnard, the 6,221-ton British tanker Tricula and the 6, 161-ton Norwegian tanker Havsten —raised the Associated Press count of announced allied and Neu tral ship losses in the western At lantic to 425 craft since Dec. 7. Two A"gentine ships effected the rescues. The motorship Rio iSan Juan picked up 57 crew mem bers of the British vesels, and the tanker Juncal arrived at Recife with 30 survivors from the Nor wegian cargo carrier. Sinking of a Brazilian tanker by a Nazi submarine operating in the Caribbean was disclosed in reports from that area yesterday, but this loss of neutral Brazil’s 12th mer chantman since America's entry into the war was withheld from the tabulation pending further detaili of the attack. Also withheld from the Atlantic ship, loss compilation pending ad ditional details was the torpedo ing of a vessel in the South Ameri can area whose survivors included two members of the United States field service. The Americans, C. A. Chapman, of Barrytown, N. Y. (Continued on Page iwot Col. 8)