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l~- tlmingtnn Morning §lar RSir FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. Nazis Iross Kuban River it 2 Points Asians Admit New Gains gut Claim Army Hold ing At Kletskaya jj£D50N INITIATIVE Declare Themselves On Of fensive In Voronezh Sector In North MOSCOW, Tuesday, Aug. ,g'_,-/p)—The Russians ac knowledged early today that the Germans had succeeded in crossing the Kuban river at two new points near Krasno dar in the Caucasus, but indi cated the Red army was hold ing firm in the Kletskaya area of the Don bend near Stalingrad where 5.000 Ger mans were repoi ted killed during the past few days. Fierce fighting was said to be in progress in both these sectors, as well as ai ound the Caucasian railway town of Mineralnye i ody and noi th east of Kotelnikovski on the Stalingrad front. More than fifty German tanks were re ported destroyed in various sectors. The Red army continued to hold the initiative in the Vo ronezh sector to the north, the midnight communique said, but the Germans were said to have thrown large re serves into the fight to halt the Russian threat to the German flank. Throwing Reserves Into Battle Soviet fortifications in the Klet skaya region were reported grind ing down increasing numbers of Nazi men and machines, but Mar shal Fedor Von Bock sent fresh reserves prodigally into the gamble iocut Russia’s main waterway be fore winter comes again. The southern arm of the twin drive against Stalingrad and its ed off northeast of Kotelnikovski. Of that fighting, the Soviet mid day communique said: "Our troops repulsed several (Continued on Page Two: Col. 6) BAHR ESPIONAGE m UNDERWAY i _ Nation Charges Defendant Tried To Smuggle Invisi ble Ink Into U. S. NEWARK. N. J„ Aug. 17—UP— 1m government opened its espio nage case against Herbert Karl nedrich Bahr today by asserting - e scholarly delendant tried to smuggle into this country on his Pe-on an ingeniously hidden de li? for making invisible ink. he former Buffalo iN.Y.) citi zen went on trial before a jurv of ® men and six women and a "J.e anc^ a female alternate. "e wa,s charged with conspiring men in Six foreign na J ■> o forward to Germany infor. effort11 Vlta* t0 t*le American war ilnrp--Slant- ^ Attorney John «!? L'se- in opening his case said government intended to prove (W\Charge in the indictment.” h® chon would leave to the pre (jesj Ce and in a manner to be eral^ ^ by t*le attorney gen tom«T.S57 aid that u- s- cus’ Bahv JSnU at Jersey City, where lomat'3'" ?rrested aboard the dip holirt t ^change iiiler Drottning hutton aJ t'1' d'scovered the middle an/«,beK1 removed from his K 1 thread used to replace it B- winucii nn page Threc. Col Nation’s Meat Supply May Soon Be Rationed 1 - y be Aug. 17— UP) —Meat distributin'110neci to ensure a fair the Unite? f ,a short suPPiy in official „ btaces, a government And theePA"ted tot^ ded, m Arnencan people, he ad meatless'n lje aslced to observe ing sy-tp d3ys before any ration [ eration m would be put into op tor of ?'v, ^er'drickson, administra AdrnmiM? Agricultural Marketing alono , 7®' asserted action bicaust. 6 in.es sbould be taken shortage f •'■000.000,000 pound surrmtmn0 maat for civilian con toonths ahea°4d develop in' tlle He told members of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers that the statistical outlook for the year which began July 1, 1942, was this: The bumper livestock crop is ex. pected to yield 21.7 billion pounds of meat compared with an average of 17.8 billion for the 1937-41 period. But we shall ship about 3.2 billion pounds to Russia and England to sustain troops now fighting and who will be in combat “when the second front opens.’’ Our armed forces and our Allies will require approximately 35 per (Continued on Page Three; Col. <) Army s New Commando Glider These are the first pictures of the new troop carry ing glider, the CG-4A, which can carry fifteen fully equipped men, including pilot and co-pilot, forty-eight feet. Top, you get a good idea of the glider’s size by com paring it with the size of the men. Bottom, interior view showing pilot and co-pilot at the controls. Note the width and clearance.— (Official U. S. Army Air Force Photos.) 'SECRET SOURCES’ DENIED BY KUNZE Former Bund Leader Dis claims Foreknowledge Of Jap Attack On U. S. HARTFORD, Conn. Aug. 17 — !iPI—Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, form er “fuehrer” of the German-Amer ican Bund, denied today a charge by a government attorney that he knew from “secret sources” that the Japanese were going to attack the United States “months in ad vance” of the Decembr 7th raid on Pearl Harbor. Kunze. under cross-examination as a defense witness at the espio nage conspiracy trial of the Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, appeared amused at the accusation made by Prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd, Jr., and asserted that while he “knew of no attack” he had “reason to fear” that there would be war be tween America and the Axis. The 36-year-old ex-Bundist insist ed that the sole reason he sent his wife and child to Germany in Janu ary, 1941, was to save his son from “suffering the same experiences I had in 1917.” The confessed member of a spy ring that the Philadelpnia Luther an pastor is accused of aiding as serted that he worked with the Rev Aleksip Pelypenko, a Ukrainian Ro man Catholic priest employed by the FBI as a counter - espionage agent, because he believed he was “an anti-Bolshevist patriot. He said that that was the reason he wrote a letter to Mr. Molzahn, which the defendant has denied ever receiving, introducing the priest to him. The letter was writ ten at Father Pelypenko’s request, Kunze testified. “How did you know Mr. Mol (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) -V American Troops In India Molested During Outbreaks In Gandhi s New Campaign KARACHI. India, Aug. 17.— (tP)—American troops stationed in India were molested during recent disturbances connected with Gandhi’s passive resist ance campaign for independ ence, Brig. Gen. Francis Brody, their commander, said today. There were no reports of Americans being injured, how ever. Gen. Brody did not explain the nature of the disturbances affecting the U. S. troops. As a result, the town in which the incident occurred ■ was placed out of bounds for II. S. troops and they were for ! bidden to enter it__ Letters Written By U. S. Soldiers Before Capture In Bataan Are Delivered WASHINGTON, Adg. 17.—(IP) —Letters written by American soldiers in the Philippines be fore the fall of Bataan and Cor regidor, and recovered from the Pacific after the ship bring ing them to the United States was sunk, are now being de livered to the soldiers’ famil ies, the War department re ported today. The recent receipt of mail from men who had been fight ing in the Philippines led some of the recipients to think that communications had been re opened with the islands, the de partment said, but the letters actually started their long journey in March. The mail left the islands probably by way of a sub marine, which transferred it in a mail pouch in a small freighter,” the department re ported. ‘‘Subsequently, the ship was torpedoed. The mail bag floating at the scene was pulled from the sea and its contents were forwarded to the Army postal service of the War department, which send the let ters on to the addressees.” 5 brazTuanThips SUNK BY U-BOATS Destruction Includes Big Troop Transport Car rying Soldiers RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 17—(#) —Axis submarines, preying on coastal shipping, have sunk five more Brazilian passenger and car go ships recently, including the 4,801-ton Baependy which was car rying soldiers, the government an nounced tonight in a statement which bitterly criticized the Axis and promised the “crimes” would not go unpunished The loss of the Baependy, the 1,905-ton Annibal Benevelo and the 4,872-ton Araraguara was first an nounced. Later the statement was amended to include the l,075ton Arara and the 2,169ton tagiba. The first three were torpedoed in the last three days, the an nouncement sai'd. The time element was missing in the case of the oth ers. A1 went down between Bahia and the State of Sergipe on the coast below the big eastern bulge of Brazil. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA—Little change in temperature today. Occasional thundershowers. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 794 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:30 p. m. 84; 7:30 p. m. 79; maximum 86; minimum 73; mean 80; normal 78. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 90; 7:30 a. m. 81; 1:30 p. m. 74; 7:30 p. m. 82. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p m., 0.82 inches; total since the first of the' month, 5.96 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington - 1:53a. 9:03a. 2:41p. 9:53p. Masonboro Inlet- -a. 5:54a. 12:18p. 6:38p. Sunrise 5:35a; sunset 6:56a; moonrise 11:55a; moonset ll:10p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Monday at 8 a. m., 13 feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) ' V FIRST PHASE OF NEW PACIFIC WAR r NDS IN VICTORY FOR AMERICANS; r//_u. s. BOMBERS HIT ROUEN, FRANCE i SHIPS RETURN TO BASES SAFELY Foray Led Personally By Gen. Eaker; Hit Heart Of Their Target ONE NAZI DESTROYED Little Gunner Knocks Down Enemy Fighter Which Tried Fight AN AMERICAN BOMBER STATION IN BRITAIN. Aug. 18. — (/P) — Powerful Flying Fortress crews led personally by Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker dropped tons of explosives by daylight today on the railway yards at Rouen in France in the first full-fledged all American bombing blow against the Nazis. The Americans met and mastered the latest-type Ger man fighter planes. Not a sin gle American bomber was lost, and their bombs hit “the heart of the target.” “They carried out their mission nonchalantly and cooly,” said tough, cigar smoking General Eaker proud ly of his men as he climbed out of his “Yankee Doodle” craft which made the historic high-level precision run over Rouen. “We will bomb Germany as' fast and as often as possible until we win the war,” de clared Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of the U. S. Air Forces in the European the atre. General Eaker heads the bomber command on General Snaatz’s staff. Bag One Nazi Pigmer One American bomber gunner bagged one of the Nazis’ newest fighter planes, a FockeWulf 190. during the flight, and escoring A1 lied fighters got two more. The A1 lies lost two fighters. “A great pall of smoke and sand was left over the railroad tracks,” General Eaker said. He did not disclose the number of American (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) SENATEAPPROVES DEPENDENCY BILL Will Permit Immediate Pay ment Of Living Allow ance To Families WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — UP — The Senate approved today a House bill permitting immediate payment of living allowances to dependents of service men, but de layed action until Thursday on leg islation to allow soldiers and sail ors to vote by mail. Majority Leader Barkley of Ken tucky raised doubts as to the con stitutionality of the voting meas ure. The Dependency Legislation wip ed out a provision in the original allotment bill which barred any payments until after November 1 on the plea of War Department officials that it would be a physical impossibility to make necessary computations and write checks be fore that date. Chairman Reynolds (D — NC( of the Military Affairs Committee warned his colleagues that passage of the bill would lead only to “con fusion, dissatisfaction and disap pointment” among the beneficiar ies. Senator Clark, (D — Mo), argu ing for passage, said some service men’s dependents were forced to rely on charity for their living ex penses, and quoted James V. For restal, Undersecretary of the Navy as having informed Representative Bulwinkle ID — NC) the Navy could make its payments immedi ately. “Let the Navy make its pay ents now,” Clark said, “and the Army when it can.” Senator Thomas (D — Utah) said that by adopting the amend ment, the Senate would be “hold ing out a promise to the people of this country that can not be ful filled.” Dependents of privates, first class privates, corporals and line (Continued on Page Three; Col. &) Coast Guard Crew Ready For Axis Periscope A gun crew of the United States Coast Guard is shown at stations aboard an es cort vessel taking a convoy through dangerous waters on its voyage to Europe with war supplies. These boys are constantly on the alert for the tell-tale feather that be trays the presence of a submarine periscope, a real menace to the convoy. This is a phonephoto.—(Official U. S. Coast Guard Photo.) 2nd Front Agreement Believed Reached Now LONDON, Aug. 17— (A3) —The war decisions which the United States, Britain and Russia have reached in the Moscow confer'* ence of Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin were regarded by observers to night as answers to the Soviet cry for “deeds, not words’’ from their Allies. It was believed that the con ference, heavily weighted on the military side, was aimed at knitting the major United Na tions into an integrated fight ing force and that a formula upon how, when and where to open a second front had been agreed upon. Significantly, the official an nouncement of the conference that was issued in Moscow and London specifically excluded Japan from the Axis powers against which the strategy was devised. It said the decisions concern ed the “war against Hitlerite Germany and her associates in Europe.” Nevertheless, it is not be lieved that the Allies excluded the possibility of a Japanese (Continued on Page Two;. Col. 7) W.P.B. INTENSIFIES BLACK MART PROBE No Evidence Found That Higgins Shipbuilders Vi slated Regulations WASHINGTON, Aug 17—(iP)—As a direct result of the '‘black market” charges made by officials of Hig gins ndustries, Inc., New Orleans shipbuiders, the War Production Board today announced an inten sified investigation into the opera tions of steel warehouses. WPB's comphance division sum marized a 2,000word report on its inquiry into recent assertions of Frank Higgins, general manager of the New Orleans firm, in two paragraphs: “I. No evidence was developed to show directly that steel products had been shipped to the Higgins company in violation of WPB or ders : 2. However, there is evidence to indicate' that some steel ware houses, in addition to the 22 penal ized last spring in other cases, may have violated WPB quota regula tions.” Apart fro mpossible price-ceiling evasions, the compliance branch reported finding no evidence of a Black market, in the accepted use of the term, in informat'on fur nished by three members of the Higgins family—Frank, his brother. Andrew J. Higgins. Jr., and their father and the president of the company, Andrew J. Higgins. Sr. Frank Higgins had testified be fore a subcommittee of the House Merchant Marine committee at New Orleans early this i*nonth that a back market existed for steel and iron products in this country, and that warehouses were bulging with all kinds of steel. The subcommittee hearing was converned with the cancellation by the Maritime Commission of a con tract for construciton by the Hie gins firm of a shipyard and 200 Liberty cargo vessels. Construction on the shipyard at Michaud, La., already had begun when, on July 18, the contract was cancelled on (Continued on Page Three; Col. n Majority Of ‘Manchester’ Officers And Men Rescued LONDON, Aug, 17 — Uf) — The Admiralty announced tonight that most of the officers and crew of the cruiser Manchester, sunk in the Mediterranean last week, had been rfescued and “are in French hands.” Three officers and 142 men were saved by British sTfips. The Man chester had a compliment of 700 men'. French ships apparently saved most of the others. -V 3 GERMANS DOWNED VALLETTA. Malta. Aug. 17—(/P) — Three German Messerschmitt 109 planes were shot down in a brief morning alert, it was an nounced tonight. There was no enemy activity last night and no casualties or damage in the past 24 hours. Tonight, though the 2,910th alert was sounded. CD Needs MESSENGERS: 258 (Boys and Girls) Duties: Carry messages to nd from Control Center, War dens posts, Casualty Stations vhen other communications fail. Training: General Course, ire Defense A, First Aid, 10 hours. Enlisted to date: 142. Quota: 40(1: Enlistments Yesterday Ur Raid Wardens . 1 ledical . IS Food and Housing . 2 'lessengers. 1 Demolition . 1 Filter Center . 11 Auxiliary Police. 1 Total . 33 KNOX REBUKES CABLE WORKERS Tells Employes Of Com pany Action Dangerous Threat To U. S. Effort WASHINGTON. Aug. 17— (/P) — Secretary of the Navy Knox today sharply rebuked employes who struck last week at the General Cable company plant in Bayonne, N. J., saying their action was “a dangerous threat to the success of our national effort in this critical emergency.” The secretary said the Navy's seizure of the plant last Friday ■‘must under no circumstances be construed as an endorsement of the attitude of the group of em ployes who precipitated such ac tion.” Knox expressed his views in a telegram to Michael Petrakian, employes’ leader,, who had mes saged to President Roosevelt a promise that the workers would double their efforts now in older to make up for the loss of produc tion in the strike last week. The strike was not authorized by unions and resulted from a wage dispute, settlement of which was attempted by the War Labor board. Telling Petrakian that the Presi dent had requested him to answer the leader’s-message, Knox said: ■‘The best evidence of the loyalty and patriotism of American citi zens is their acceptance of estab lished American institutions. The War Labor board was created by the President to insure uninter rupted production and to solve labor disputes. The board has done so in huhdreds of cases in volving many thousands of work ers. ‘‘It was prevented from doing so in the General Cable corpqration case by the employes’ ill-advised defiance of the War Labor board and their union officials and a sol emn pledge of organized labor. (Continued on Tage Two; Col. 2) Owners Of Beach Houses Asked To List Property A resolution sailing on owners of beach properties to list houses when avaible was adopted by the Defense Housing committee of the New Hanover County Defense Council at a meeting held Monday afternoon in the Homes Registra tion office at the post office to su:. vey the housing situation in con nection with the defense program. The group authorized the chair man, Henry R. Emory, executive director of the Housing Authority of the city of Wilmington, to ap point a committee to follow through and see what can be done to get people to offe" their proper ty for rent and encourage them to equip the homes with heating fa cilities where necesar.v. Another resolution requsting authorities at Camp Davis to sug. / MARINES WELL SET IN SOLOMON HOLDS Campaign Not Won With out Losses For Allies; Japs Lose Heavily NO DAMAGE REVEALED Operations Are Continuing, Says Navy Spokesman; Positions Secured WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. (A3)—The first phase of the American invasion of Japa nese-held territory in the southwest Pacific has ended victoriously, the Navy dis closed today, with Marine occupation forces in the Gua dalcanal-Tulagi area of the Solomon islands holding “well established” positions. The victory was not won without losses, a Navy com munique made clear, but the Japanese, in addition to being forced to relinquish territory of great strategic value, lost at least 36 aircraft, suffered damage to their naval forces and had “a number” of troops taken prisoners. The Navy carefully re frained from announcing the extent of damage to Ameri can forces, saying that such information would be of value to the enemy, but it had pre viously announced that one U. S. cruiser had been sunk and two cruisers, two de stroyers and one transport damaged. Campaign Is Continuing A naval spokesman said the campaign “is continuing,’.’ the Ma rines’ immediate nroblem appar ently being to make their initial positions secure while vigorously hunt ns down such scattered Japa nese forces as ream in in the is lands occupied. These islands were not named, but presurraWv includ ed both Guadalcanal, with its air (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) CALCUTTA SCENE OF NEW RIOTING Demonstrators Pull Down Telephone Poles, Burn Street Car BOMBAY. Aug-. 17—(iP>—Bands of derm nstrators pulled down tele phone and telegraph wires and burned a street ear in Calcutta to day, but quiet prevailed for the fourth successive day in populous Bombay as the issue of Indian in dependence appeared no nearer so lution than it did a week ago. While the working committee of the Moslem league was meeting here in closed session, fourteen Na tionalist newspapers in Calcutta voted to suspend publication indefi nitely “in protest against the latest restrictions on newspapers imposed by the government of India.” The publishers decided to close shop Aug. 21. The papers include both English and Indian vernacular, among them the important Amrita Patrika which has a circulation of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) gest to other military establish ments when sending men here to ask them not to bring their fami lies at present, particularly those enrolling in the Officers’ Candi date School, was adopted. The committee also adopted a resolution deploring the transfer of Major K. A. Hatt. billeting of fice- for Camp Davis at the Homes Registration office here, endorsing his record of perform ance here for the past several months and asking that he reas sign to the office if possible. Major Hatt was recalled to duty at Camp Davis last week. M". Emory reported on the pub lic housing situation here and told of the progress of contruction of various housing projects in the city.
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