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“Served By Leased Wire 01 The ASSOCIATED PRESS flFMFMDFn WIDE WORLD liLPILPIotll With Complete Coverage 01 PEARL HARBOR i State and National News AND BATAAN -r—TEN PAGES---WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGjJsTTo7Iiii PINAL EDITION-ESTABLISHED 18M. Russians Give UpKrasnodar, Retreat Seen (to Change Reported In Don ^ver Bend Lines West Of Stalingrad ^'destroyed Reds Believed Falling Back Toward Black Sea Base Of Novorossisk By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 29* __ (/P) — Russian troops have abandoned Krasnodar in the western Caucasus in an apparent retreat toward the Black sea base of Novoros sisk but the Soviet commum mie'earlv today said there top no material change in the Don river bend lines west of Stalingrad. Forty-four German tanks were reported destroyed and more than 1.150 Germans killed in fighting extending from the Caucasian foothills in the south to Leningrad on ;he Baltic. “After stubborn battles luring which heavy losses ivere inflicted on the enemy ii men and equipment our roops evacuated the town of Krasnodar,” the communique said. “After stubborn battles during which heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy in men and equip ment our troops evacuated the town of Krasnodar.’' the commun ique said. Withdrawal The Kuan River stronghold of Krasnodar which the Germans claimed Aug. 9 is about 60 air line (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -v DIM-OUT EFFECTED ON PACIFIC COAST «* Shadow Of War Settles Over Shoreline Of Three Large States SAX FRANcisco, AuS 19.—(/P) —The shadow of war settled over the West Coast for the duration tonight with a blanket dim-out of lights visible at sea from Puget Sound to the Mexican line. Xight sports had their final fan [ fare. Air raid wardens and volun ‘ers spread out all along the 1200 miJe shoreline to issue final warn ings that by 1201 a. m. (3:01 a. m. ,'T) the great glows of coastal cities and highways must fade. Tlie dim-out, in varied stages, extends over 100.000 square miles °‘ tlle thl'ee coast states, and in ' " leached 150 miles inland. It as 01dered by the Western De uu <'ommaml two weeks ago. Billboards. Marquees, advertising snrf" ,‘ShtE’ hrightly-iighted signs shioi???0"8, and most 'ishts not bann a t?r°m tlle sea and air are “ned throughout the area. Seam?6*? ciides affected include mr-mC’ c,Tacoma’ Portland, Sacra and San Dieg“CiSC0’ Los An^eles ionseholders must prevent any shades10m refIecti"S upward, and fif'vS on all win . £rom the sea. less ttf8 ,a-re limited lights of 'Parkin?" ?'? beam ca-ndle-power inept I lghts normally would i-4wTrmts) when driving instances H °cean’ an(1 in some C \mUSt limit «peed to 20 hour fro^n sunset to dawn. I WEATHER change ht,,t,s Thursday.SCattered thundcr" ^Hor.V S' Weather Bureau) *ntlin! l”i°8‘caI da*a for the 24 hours P m. yesterday). t,1? »• ttl .T'jnnerature jf: i;3«p.uV 0 a- m- 71; 1:30 p- m • mean 7c. D’ maximum 83; minimum * formal 77. -T'30 a. m os 9umidity ’ ,:3° P. a'Sg30 a' m- 99; 1:30 P- m Total f„r fr'eipitation *• »■. I.29 fn„* 24 hours ending 7:30 “ay of the mChfs; total since the first month, 9.30 inches. . lfTom Tij1'!'5 For Today oast and ri Tables published by U. S. Geodetic Survey). limin2ton High Low ,, 3:50a. 11:14a. "as°nbor0 Ini.* 4:4°P- U:59p. ‘"'at- 1;31a. 7;55a . Sunrise s-l%. 2:26p. 8:50p. ,94P: moonset— sunset 6;54p. moonrise '■lib's »*" r£'r “age at Fayette m. Wednesday, 18.60 feet C<ln“nued on Page Three; Col. 6) Succumbs JUDGE N. A. SINCLAIR JUDGE SINCLAIR PASSES AT HOME Dies At Age Of 79 After Several Months Of De clining Health FAYETTEVILLE, Aug. 19.—<#)— Neil Angus Sinclair, a judge of North Carolina’s Superior court bench since 1922, died today at his home here after several months of declining health. He was 79 years old. Before he became ill, Judge Sin clair had been active as an emer gency judge. The jurist, a native of Cumber land county, spent his life here and took a leading part in the affairs of his county. He began his career as a lawyer in Fayetteville in 1890. During the administration of Governor W. W. Kitchin in 1909 13 Judge Sinclair served for a time as chairman of the State Demo cratic Executive committee. He also had served as district solicitor and chairman of the county educa tion board. In 1916 he was state senator and presidential elector-at-large. During World War I he was chairman of the Cumberland Coun ty Selective Sendee Board and at one time was a trustee of the Uni versity of North Carolina. The funeral will be held at the home tomorrow at 5:30 p. m. Burial will be in Cross Creek cemetery. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. James Edward Williamson of Charlotte, Mrs. Frederick F. Tiavis of Cradell, N. J., and Mrs. George W. Harrison of New Jersey; and his second wife, the former Miss Anna Fuller Barham of Louisburg. -V N.Y. POLITICAL ROW NEARS SHOWDOWN Last Ditch Fight By Sup porters Of Mead And Bennett Is Assured NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—(S’)—’The struggle between the opposing choices of President Roosevelt and his former political lieutenant. James A. Farley, for the New York democratic gubernatorial nomina tion developed into a “war of nerves” tonight on the eve of a final showdown. A last ditch fight on the floor of tlfte party’s state convention, which held a brief and outwardly peaceful opening session in Brook lyn today, was virtually assured as spokesmen for both sides clung to their predictions of victory and discounted all talk of compromise. Terence J. McManus chairman of the Mead-for-Governor commit tee, declared the name of United States Senator James M. Mead, favored by the President, will be presented to the convention for a nominating roll call tomorrow and added: “We believe that despite all of the claims that have come from the Farley group, that he will be nominated.” But Farley, backing Attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr., for the nomination, said his forces were “not compromising” on any (Continued on Pa*e Two; Col. 1) American Sub Sinks Jap Warcraft In Aleutians WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 —— The Navy announced today that an American sumarine had sunk a Japanese cruiser or destroyer in the western Aleutian area. Prevalent weather conditions, which long have prevented accur ate observation of the effect of bombings and surface raids, made it impossile to determine exactly which type of enemy warship had been sent to the bottom . Since the Japanese landed at At tu and Kiska, they have been al most constantly harassed by Amer ican sea and air forces. On Satur day it was announced that a sur face raiding force struck on Aug. 8 and 9, and with assistance from the air damaged a destroyer and two cargo vessels and sank a third cargo ship. i The submarine attack reported today brought the total of Japanese ships damaged or destroyed in the Aleutian area to 23. Describing it, the Navy said: “A United States submarine has reported the sinking of a Japanese cruiser or destroyer in the western Aleutian area. Conditions made im possible an exact identification of the type of the ship. This sinking has not been announced in any previous Navy department commu nique.” 3 2 Subs Sunk Near Brazy By Airplay ] One Other Attacked Ahu Two More Declared Sight ed Off South America U. S. TAKES ACTION U-Boat Destroyed By American B-18 Bomber Near Coast Of Sergipe RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 19. — (JP) — Two submarines were declared sunk off the Brazilian coast, one other was attacked and two more were sighted in the waters of the western South Atlantic in re cent operations, totaled up late today as Brazil cleared the sea lanes of all her mer chant shipping. The most recently attacked submarine was sunk early to day near Bahia where it was sighted by planes of Brazil’s coastal patrol. The sinking occurred shortly after an nouncement of the destruc tion of a U-boat by a United States medium bomber, pilot ed by Capt. Jack Lacey, U.S.A., off the coast of Ser gipe. Lacey’s victim, which he machine-gunned, bombed back to the surface as it tried to submerge and then fin ished off with direct hits, was believed to be one of those responsible for the sink ing of five Brazilian ships within three days. Raider Described as Enormous The submarine sunk this morn ing was one of two reported sight ed in the western South Atlantic earlier, and the other was describ ed as of “enormous size”—so big that a fishing boat crew believed it was a merchantman until it dived. Radio reports reaching here, supposedly from British Guiana, told of one submarine attacked and another sighted by Royal Air Froce planes yesterday in the West In dies. In the face of the renewed and concentrated attacks, Brazil called all ships into the nearest ports. The government recalled all fur (Continued on Pafe Two; Col. 6) Chicago Tribune, Other Papers Cleared By Jury CHICAGO, Aug. 19—df]—A Fed eral grand jury’s Investigation of the publication of the allegedly confidential Naval information by the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News and the Washington Times Herald ended today with a decision that no violation of the law had been disclosed. William D. Mitchell, special as sistant to the attorney gaieral who directed the inquiry, stated the jury had “considered the case fully and its conclusion that no violation of the law was disclosed settles the matter.” Col. Robert R. McCormick, edi tor and publisher of the Tribune, stated “I never had the slightest fear of an indictment.” he added: “The attitude of the Tribune is today what it was before the grand jury investigation was launched and as it was the day after Pearl Harbor. Our whole effort is to win the war, and we will not indulge in any factionalism except ing insofar as we are persecuted and have to defend ourselves.” Subject of the investigation was a story published on June 7. Ma terial for the article—an estimate of the size and strength of the Japanese fleet defeated in the Mid (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) American Built Planes Perform Well At Dieppe LONDON, Aug. 19—OP'—One high y gratifying phase of the Allied anding at Dieppe was the per lormance of the American-built Mustang fighter planes, British ;ommentaries said tonight. These planes, produced by the Morth American aircraft company ind known in the United States is P-51, are single-engine fight ers, reputedly the fastest in the world. They got their first thorough ;est today in combat against the lamed German Focke-Wulf 190s. Flown by the RAF, under the irmy cooperation command, the Mustangs made sweeping attacks m enemy ground defenses at “zero” altitude and were reported to have given “extremely good account” of themselves. TT SOLOMON ISLANDS FIGHT CONTINUES U. S. Forces Believed Ex tending Footholds Gained Several Days Ago GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD QUARTERS, Australa, Aug. 19— (#>)—Fighting in the Solomon is lands, which apparently had set tled down to a methodical exten sion of footholds gained by United States forces, continued today with the broad object of stopping Japanese expansion toward the southeast. Land, sea and air forces were slugging energetically, but details were undisclosed by military head quarters here, or by Washington. The absence of official reports, and of anything approaching a blow-by-blow account, did not sug gest to oservers, however, that the battle was over. On the con trary, an impression grew that dis (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) J.LIED COMMANDOS DEFY GERMANS NINE HOUR ASSAULT ON DIEPPE CLAIM INVADERS DESTROYED - x --- DECLARE INVASION WAS CATASTROPHE Enemy Says 3 Destroyers, Planes, Transports, Many Men Wiped Out OVERSTATE NUMBERS DNB Reports Larger Scale Operation Than Appar ent In British Plans BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), Aug. 19.—(A5)— The German high command said in a special bulletin to night that the Allied forces which attacked the French coast near Dieppe today were “destroyed without the call ing up of reinforcements of important strength.” The Allies suffered “very high casualties in killed and wounded,” and German de fense forces captured 1,500 prisoners, including 60 Cana dian officers, the communi que said. The Allies also^ lost three destroyers, two torpedo boats, four transports, one speed boat and 83 planes in this “in vasion catastrophe,” the Ger mans said. Claim Stalin Pressure From 300 to 400 landing boats participated in the first wave of | the attack, the communique said, protected by 13 to 15 cruisers and (destroyers. A reserve of 32 trans ports also were concentrated in tire channel, but “probably the great mass of landing forces were not sent into action,” the Germans said. The Berlin radio announcer in giving these details of the Dieppe fight said: I “The Churchill landing attempt near Dieppe was made under Sta lin’s pressure despite all objec tions by Churchill’s military ex perts and advisers, states official German comment on the invasion (Continued on Pare Two; Col. 1) French Excited Over Reports 1 Of (Texas Rangers* Invasion VICHY, Aug. 19—(/P)—Many French officials and some dip lomats were excited today by mistaken reports that “Texas Rangers” had landed at Dieppe with the Allied Commando raiders. The Wild West touch was con tributed to French speculations by London radio reports that American Rangers had partici pated in the action. To many Frenchmen there is only one type of ranger—the Texas va riety. But the presence of United States forces on French soil, FDR’S SHIP GOAL MAY BE EXCEEDED WPB Expects To Achieve Or Better 8 Million Deadweight Tons WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—IJPI— The War Production board expects to see President Roosevelt’s ship building goal for this year—8,000, X)0 deadweight tons—not only achieved but surpassed by a)aout 10 per cent. On the basis of a record-break ing performance by the nation’s shipbuilders and the increased need for cargo space, WPB has boosted its schedule closer to 9,000,000 tons for the year than to 8,000,000, it was disclosed by an official who asked that his name be withheld. WPB approval of the increase scheduled by the Maritime com mission means that the board feels' itself ready to give assurance that sufficient steel plates and shapes —regardless of the shortage which already has slowed work on some shipways—will be on hand to send perhaps 80 or 90 more cargo ves sels into the water than were pre viously scheduled. This is about the equivalent of a month’s extra production crowd ed into the last five months of the year. The best shipbuilding record so far achieved was July’s world record output of 71 ships weighing 790,000 deadweight tons. To accomplish the original “blue print for victory” goal of 8,000,000 tons would have meant about 930, 000 tons average monthly deliv eries from August to December in clusive. This monthly average will have to hit more than 1,000.000 tons to accomplish the new schedule. The July output was the third successive record-shattering month and for the first time since early (Continued on Pase Three; 'Col. 5) _ir_ CLARK SAYS U. S. FACES HUGE TASK Representative Speaks At Weekly Meeting Of Lo cal Kiwanis Club Wilmington Kiwanians yesterday were urged to remember the “staggering magnitude of Ameri ca’s task” before criticizing i t s leaders by a surprise Visitor to their weekly luncheon, Rep. J. Bayard Clark. Asked to the floor by E. A. Lan ey, presiding in the absence of the president, J. Q. Legrand, the rep resentative declared that we are making ourselves “strong enough to strike the last blow in a war mad world. . . For 25 years our enemy has trained its youth for this moment.” “It must be remembered,” he said, “that this is an enormous undertaking, and we should not be too hasty in our criticism. There are some things you just can’t tell the public.” Lieut. John M. Ellis, local re cruiter for the Women’s Army Aux iliary Corps, which is seeking en listees from this area for aircraft warning service training, asked as distance of Kiwan s members jn interesting WAC recruits. The auxiliary corps “basics” must be between the ages of 18 and 45 and in good physical condi tion, he explained, and are destin ed to replace men on army desk Jos. They are trained at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Women will be returned tc their oxn area for service. Lieut. Ellis’ office in the p'ostoffice basement is trying to enlist 50 women here by October 12 to send to Fort Des Moines a month later 3 following the all-American air raid on Rouen, brought home to many observers the increas- ^ ing participation of the United States in military developments on the Continent. Both German and British re ports were studied with the greatest attention, interest be coming intense when it became apparent that it was an opera tion of great magnitude and longer duration than previous hit-and-run Commando blows. Chief-of-Government Pierre Laval conferred with Admiral Jean Darlan, head of French Native Of Scott's Hill Takes Part In Assault On Rouen Early In Week LONDON, Aug. 19.—W)—The United States fliers who par ticipated in the flying fortress attack on Rouen Monday—from which all planes returned safe ly—were announced today to include: Commanding general of the bomber command, Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker; commanding offi cer, Frank A. Armstrong of Nashville, N. C.; Sergeant Miles W. Gendel of Scotts Hill, N. C., and Lieutenant Harry J. Booth of Charlotte, N. C. In announcing the names, U. S. Army headquarters describ ed the raid as “unusually suc cessful” and said photographs showed a majority of the bombs fell within a radius of 390 yards of the freight yards. CITY’S RAINFALL IS 9.30 INCHES • ♦ Tenth Straight Day Of Rain Brings Total Of 2.94 Inches Over Normal With 1.29 inches of rain falling in the 24 hours ending at 7:30 o’clock last night, the total for the month is 9.30 inches—2.94 inches above normal for the period, ac cording to figures released by the local weather bureau. Fast on the heels of a month long heat wave in July, the rainy season opened here. For the past 10 days, intermittent heavy show ers have come and the local Weath er Bureau promises no change in weather. The rainfall is rather general over the state, according to Weath erman Paul Hess. At Greensboro^ the total rainfall to date this month is 2.20 inches; Lumberton, 5.05 inches; and Tarboro, 3.13 inches. Mr. Hess predicted the heavy rain season will help to keep the local supply of water fresh when the dry season comes the latter part of October and November. “Our present rains will saturate the soil and help to relieve the water situation later on,” he ex plained. “The water supply here often becomes salty in October and worse in November.” IT Raid On Dieppe Landed By British Newspapers LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 20.— (JP)—The British press today hailed the Allied attack on Dieppe as a “complete success” and all agfeed it was a prelude to the establish ment of a second front. The News Chronicle said "the, though obviously planned indepen dently of Moscow decisions, was thus psychologically most oppor tune. We look on it as an earnest prediction of still bigger things to come.” land, sea and air forces, during the afternoon after an inter view with Marshal Philippe Pe tain, chief of state. Petain, in turn, talked with Charles Roc hat, general secretary of the foreign affairs ministry. Reports of the landing had not been published in France up to this evening. An opinion expressed on many sides here was that the Flying Fortress raid on Rouen Monday was in preparation for the Dieppe landing operation. It was believed that the attack (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) ARMY TAKES OVER S. A. WOODS PLANT Failure To Obey WLB Or der Creates Serious Threat To Production’ BOSTON, Aug. 19—(£)—Acting on presidential orders, the Army to night took possession of a war busy plant whose failure to obey a war labor board directive had created, acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said, “serious threat to production of vital war materials. Under the command of Major Italph F. Gow of the Boston Ord nance District, a detail of military police, estimated at 150 men, mov ed in abc/ut 8 p.m. (eastern war time) taking over the 92 - year old S.A. Woods Machine Company. Army occupation, ordered earl ier in the day by President Roose velt in a statement to Patterson, marked the seventh time the Chief Executive exercised his emer gency powers in ordering govern ment control of a private industry. The order resulted from a com pany refusal to comply with a war labor order requiring the inclusion of maintenance of union member ship and arbitration clauses in a contract with the CIO’s united elec trical, radio and machine workers union. Major Gow led his caravan of seven Army trucks through the main entrance of the plant and (Continued on rage Three; Col. 5) _X/_ OIL FIRM DEFENDS GERMAN DYE TRUST Half Bombs Dropped On Nazis And Japs Made Possible By Merger WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—— Officials of the Standard Oil com pany (New Jersey) defended pre war patent arrangements with Ger many’s great I. G. Farbenindus trie chemical trust before a sen ate. committee today as having made German processes for war products available to the United States. “Half of the bombs we are drop ping on Japs and Nazis are made possible by the research based on that contract with I. G.” W. S. Farish, president of the Standard company, told the patents com mittee. He explained that coopera tive research gave this country the first processes for producing 100-octane aviation gasoline, syn thetic toluol for explosives and syn thetic rubber. Chairman Bone (D-Wash) asked R. T. Haslam, a vice-president of the company and a former pro fessor of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy, whether the United States (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Draft Board Abolishes ‘Limited Service’ Class WASHINGTON, Aug. 19— UFl — The Selective Service System to day abolished its ‘limited service” class I-B, the group with minor physical defects, and ordered all but the totally unfit reclassified as available for military service. Nearing exhaustion of the pool of I-A registrants, those free of any known physical handicaps and not deferred from active duty for any other reason, the Army recently called for induction of men from the I-B class. This decision, resulting in filling local draft quotas with I-A and I-B registrants, has made the iatl ter classification meaningless for all practical purposes of the Selec tive Service System, and its mem bers will either be placed in 4-F, if totally unfit for service, or shift ed to 1-A. The order is effective tomorrow, said an announcement by Selec tive Service Headquarters, but the reclassifying of men in this group will begin September 1, to be com pleted by New Year’s day. Not more than one-fourth of the I-B registrants in any loc.J area will be placed in I-A in any single month. (Continued on Face Two; Col. 7) FORCES WITHDRAW AS PRE-ARRANGED Complete Objective And Retire Exactly Six Min utes Behind Schedule HEAVY LOSS REVEALED Both Sides Suffer In En gagement; U. S. Bombers Prominent In Action LONDON, Aug. 19.—(/P'1— Commando forces and tanks of the western Allies: Ameri cans. Canadians, British and fighting French, invaded and lambasted Germany’s iron clad zone of coastal forts at Dieppe today and withdrew as planned after achieving an all-day assault on the enemy short of the English channel, something Hitler never dared to try. Nine hours after the first forces landed the re-embarka tion was completed, just six minutes behind schedule. A communique tonight said losses on both sides were heavy. But it was understood that every one of the princi pal Allied objects was achieved. Preliminary results ashore reported up to early tonight were these: Destroy Much Nazi Materiel Destruction of a 6-gun shore ar tillery battery, an ammunition dump, an anti-aircraft battery and a radio location station. Allied fighter planes, making up what perhaps was the greatest aer ial canopy yet sent aloft, shot down at least 82 enemy aircraft and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) COMMANDOS HAPPY IN NEW SUCCESSES Grinning And Cheering They Land At British Ports After Attacks A SOUTHERN BRITISH PORT, Aug:. 19.—CP>-‘-Grinning, singing Al lied Commandos were landed at this port early tonight from power-driven sea-going' barges, grimy but happy after the nine-hour Battle of Dieppe, Truck-drivers cheered them as they were loaded into lorries for transportation to headquarters. The wounded, also, were arriving and taken to hospital trains. Black, green and yellow paint splotched the faces of the Comman dos, their uniforms were torn and one walked barefoot across the street, carrying his boots in his hands. All wore balaclava helmets and the majority had on soft tennis shoes. "Good show, boys!” the waiting transport drivers shouted. Cottagers, during a brief delay while one group of Commandos waited for places in trucks, rushed % (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) CD Needs RESCUE SUADS: 57 (Men) Duties: To rescue persons trapped in debris, and to shut off broken gas, electric and water lines. Training: General course. Fire Defense A and B, Gas Dedefnse B, and First Aid, 20 Hours. Enlisted Yesterday: Air Raid Wardens. 8 messengers . ,i Medical Corps . 2 Control Room . 1 Filter Center . 3 Total . 17
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