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/ Served By Leased Wire Of The ASSOCIATED PRESS WIDE WORLD With Compleie Coverage Of Stafe and National News Ttg-no. 11 " ~ _ ~ ~ ~ ESTABLISHED 1867. __TTW*m* keynotes First War Labor Dr This picture was taken at the meeting in Washington rf Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the. War Production Beam and a labor committee headed by Philip Murray, pr ssident of the CIO and William Green, president of the American r ederation of Labor during which labor made a bid for a place on the War Production Board. At the close of a two-nour conference, Mr Nelson said that he would consider the appointment of two labor executives as vice diaiimen on tne WPB, and that the meeting had given fresh evidence of labor’s willingness to cooperate 100% in winning the war. Seated, left to right, are: William L. Baft, vice chairman of the WPB; William Green, Donald Nel son, and Philip Murray. Left to right (standing) are: George Masterson. Pres. United Assn, of Plumbers and Steam fitter.'. A F. of L; Clinton Golden, assistant to President of United Steel Workers, CIO; Joseph McDonagh, secretary M 1 nades Department, A F of L; Frank Fenton, organization director of A F of L; Wendell Lund, Director Labor Miction Division of the WPB.—(Central Press). •-k --—— - ION PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC WIN Guffey Forecasts Increase In Congress After Com ing Flections WASHINGTON. Sept. 6 — W — Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania, tteirraa of the Democratic Sena ry’ Campaign Committee, pre feed today that the Democrats would increase their Senate major '■'y in the ‘ thcoming elections because "the people have convinc poroved the Roosevelt war policies.” He made his forecast at the be ginning of a -.reek in which pri maries and conventions in 11 states "Hi bring the nominee-picking sea son ffi this war t-ear near a close. This week will see nominations f0" seven Senate and 55 House sffits. x addition to eight Guber Already chosen are nominees for 25 of the 34 Senate seats Md 322 of the 435 House se; lobe contested in November. G’-dfey said in a statement that nominations already made justified a prediction that the “Democratic ?amrity fn Senate on January ; •- til exceed the present ma Ittity. The Democrats now have ? memce s. Republicans 29 and -e Progressives and Independents one each. ,The Derr ..(vatic candidates ending for reelection,” Guffey i, • nave a militant and invinci e record back of them and the are stalwart supports of administration in the war ef •“( rnd the social legislative pro g-3in, , J“ere " ill be no great political the candidates of the j ‘; jn Power because they will •n- bot'oto most of their time jortu®orting tiie nation’s war ef *ne people of the rspective Oonunned on Cage Two; Col. 4) Leather CAROLINA — Moderate ' scattered showers and ior; 0 ' " mostly in south por (EASTFP\. Bv,KN ^ANDARD TIME) ^leteov,' 'v Weather Bureau) ehding data for the 24 hours P m., yesterday: , 1;30 a m .t emperature: ni’*’llai7w?:30 “• m- 73: 1:30 p rr;ean -o' " maximum 84; minimum normal 75. 1:3fj a ^ Humidity: ‘ 1; 7:30 a. ,m. 94: 1:30 p. J D m. si. Total for ''ifcipitatioo: i; I8" O.oo ..A,,,24 hours ending 7:30 ' ,r“; total since the first tin ' inches. C f> ,h* 1 °R TODAY: ' S-Coa-t jjl fables published by , and Geodeiic Survey) %'J1'Ston High Lot-/ it,, 7:13a. 2:QGa. = '"’“'■ra Itiiet 7:40p. 2:14p s., .-1:02a. 11:10a !c ... . 3 :22p. ll:47p ’"’’omw'Viijp*1 6;3°p; moonrise ' “"'ioued on p Fa80 Two; Col. 5) Labor Day, 1942, Will See America Going All-Out For War Output Begins To Take On New Meaning To Nation’s Working Men (By The Associated Press) Labor Day—1942 style—began to take on a new meaning yester day. Instead of the traditional three day weekend of touring, traffic fa talities and rest from toil, the American workman rolled up his sleeves and took his usual place on the production lines, tuVning out vitally needed war materials and ships in which to transport j them. In steel mills, plane and tanl: factories, munitions plants and ship yards it was “just another workday.” Parades, sports and excursions of the usual pre-Labor Day pro gram were replaced by work yes terday, work through today and more work tomorrow. Fullerton Fultno. Illinois direc tor of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, said no formal ob servance of the holiday had been scheduled by any organized labor group in the Chicago area. In some of the nation’s ship yards, brief celebrations attending the launchings or laying of the keels for 150 warships will inter rupt production only a few min utes. . , . . , Some of the smaller industrial cities planned parades by youths and nondefense workers to termi nate during the noon hour at the sites of factories working on war orders. .. ; _ The address of President Roose velt to be broadcast to the nation and to the world by shortwave will have a sobering influence. He is expected to discuss gov ernment plans to check inflation Advance indications are that the rroeram contemplates the limiting of wages, salaries and farm prices. In Detroit, workers protested a holiday shutdown which they sue had been ordered at the Chrysler Corporation and Ford Motor crm pany plants. A Chrysler spokes man said, however, that the time would be used to full advantage by “any department which is be hind schedule or ha= had trouble getting into full production. While tire and gasoline rationing in many sections has reduced ne amount of motor traffic, the rail roads reported weekend travel was 50 to 75 per cent heavier than a year ago. A New York Central railroad official added, “you might as well say” it exceeded any holi day weekend in history. - HI officers explained the heavy traffic was accounted for by troop movements, the end of the vacation (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) r-• Head Of Local Shipyard Calls On Workers To Do Everything To Win War The following is a message corn, cerning Labor Day from- Mr. Homer L, Ferguson, chairman of the board of directors of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Vo all employees: On a day which heretofore has been observed as a holi day and devoted to appro priate celebration, we are obliged to continue at work because of the critical times. We should not. however, be -• f>r» day, of the freedom which, and of. the inseparable inter ests of labor, management and the public, which it is essen tial for all of us to understand and recognize if we are to win the war. Our country must get the ships we are building as soon as possible in this time of crisis. Keep fit physically and work every .day we can! --V SENATE TO VOTE ON SPENDING TAX Solons Expect To Be Ready For Ballot When Ses sion Opens Tuesday WASHINGTON, Sept. 6— — Chairman George (D-Ga) o£ the Senate Finance committee pledged “very serious consideration” lor the Treasury’s spending tax proposal to day while Senator Danaher (R-Conn) pressed his retail sales stamp plan as a method of raising billions in revenue now and avoiding a slump after the war. George reported that tne commit tee might be ready to vote on the spending tax plan when it recon venes Tuesday “since we’re about through discussing many points.” If the spending tax is rejected, George said, a sales tax will be “one of the most prominent means of raising new revenue that will come before the committee.” While avoiding a commitment either for or against the spending tax, George agreed with Secretary .Morgenthau that its administration would not be complex. With proper rates and deductions, he said, it could be made into "a just and ef fective tax.” “Whether it's final ly accepted or not, whether it can be applied to suit everybody on the committee (Continued on Page1 Two; Col. 5) t - City Prepared For War Time Celebration; Ship yards Continue Work For the first time since 1918. Wilmington enters into the celebra tion of Labor Day under a war time atmosphere. In years past, the city has taken a recess from all daily labors to have one last fling at the beaches and other amusements and in some respects this custom will not change today. The North Carolina Shipbuilding company will continue to produce the big Liberty freighters with no time off for the holiday but prac tically all other businesses in the city will close for the day. A program of speaking and music has been arranged and will get underway at 10:15 o’clock this morning in front of the postoffice. At 10:45 o’clock, an amplified broadcast of a radio program from Raleigh in which Governor J. Mel ville Broughton and State Labor Commissioner Forest H. Shuford will address the state, will be heard from loudspeakers erected near Front and Chestnut streets. Preceeding the talks by the state officials, Senator-Elect J. E. L. Wade will act as master-of-cere monies for the local program. Mayor Hargrove Bellamy, origi nally scheduled to take part in the exercises, will not be present, it was announced last night, but Ad dison Hewlett, chairman of the county board of commissioners will address the crowd. Main speakers for the local pro gram are B. F. Sutherland who will speak for industry and Rabbi Mordecai Thurman who will rep (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Alexandria Again Saved From Enemy Axis Forced Back West Of El Alamein By Hard Driving Allies ROMMEL THREW ALL German Commander Ex erted All Efforts To Crack Nile Defense CAIRO, Sept. 6. — (JP) — Strong and continuing pres sure of the British Eighth army had forced the Axis back west of the El Alamein mine fields today to their starting point, greatly weak ened after a futile week-long effort to find a soft spot in a stovepipe-shaped alley lead ing into the British defenses There was no doubt in the mind either of officers or ob servers here that Marshal Erwin Rommel threw every thing he had in this drive and that he has been unhorsed from a full-scale offensive that was meant to take him to the Nile. In fact, a prisoner told the British that the German com mander himself visited the front just before the jump off, distributed cigarettes and declared “next week we will be in Cairo, boys.” Threat Is Dissipated But the blows struck at his spear head beginning last Wednesday were so severe that not even a mighty diversion attack by his air forces was able to turn the course of tiattle; in his favor." For the moment at least, Mar shal Erwin Rommel’s latest threat to Alexandria and the Nile valley was dissipated by the blows of tanks, land troops and the sky-rul ing RAF and United States Air Forces ■which roamed the desert air in constant attacks on enemy concentrations and supply lines. Striking at one source of enemy reinforcements, heavy U. S. bomb ers raided the shipping docks and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) ALLIESHUNTiNG ENEMY AT MILNE Are Making Tree-To-Tree Search For Remnants Of Ambushed Forces MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 6—m—Allied fighters and Austral ians trained in jungle warfare, to day were making what was vir tually a tree-to-tree search for the remnants ci the Japanese forces which escaped last week’s big am bush at M ine Bay, New Guinea, reports from that front said. It appeared, likely, observers here said, that the Japanese would shortly be running out of food and ammunition since, apparently no at tempt has teen made to send them supplies. A communique, issued at Gen eral MacArthwr’s headquarters, re ferred to ’■-he remnants as “guer rill a forces’’ and said the ground forces of the Allies were being aid ed by planes in searching out the enemy. Kokoda, the inland village 60 miles from Buna where the Japa nese landed late in July, appeared to be the most active front on the island. Allied fighters yesterday machine-gunned positions around the place. One plane was lost, but it was not explained how. Allied fighters and bombers made three smashing raids on Buna yesterday, setting grounded (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) U.S. Leathernecks Annihilate Japs In Solomon Campaigns (Editor’s Note: Bernard Riley of Biwabik, Minn., elec trician’s mate second-class, U. S. N., was present “by coin cidence” August 7 when United States Marines consolidated their hold on Tulagi and other islands in the Solomon offen sive. Following is his story as related to veteran A. P. War Correspondent Clark Lee). WITH THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE SOLOMON IS LANDS, Aug. 10—(Delayed)—(iP)— During the past three days I saw United States Marine Raiders cap ture the islands of Tulagi, Cavutu and Tanambogo. The Marines went about the job in a coldblooded, deadly manner. They annihilated the Japs almost tc the last man and the fighting ended last night with the Marines firmly holding all three key islands in Tulagi harbor. The Japs used all the tricks that the Marines had been taught to expect, but their trickery was no match for Marine tommyguns, knives, bayonets and bravery. I never saw such a cool, deter mined bunch of those Marines. Thank the Lord they are on our side instead of fighting against us. First of all, I.had better make it clear that these Marines shock troops are Raiders. Don’t ever make the mistake of calling them Commandos or you’re likely to be nursing a sore jaw. If you want tc talk to them say “hey, Marine,” 01 “hey, Raider.” never say “hey, Commando.” They don’t like it. These Raiders are picked for their size and toughness. All seem to be above six feet tall and as hard as nails. In training they get sprayed with animal blood in their face, to see if they can take it. | (Continued on Pate Three; Col. 4) STALINGRAD DEFENSE REPULSES NAZI DRIVE IN NORTHWEST AREA - J Paul Revere Of The Seaside A member of the U. S- Coast Guard’s new horse patrol streaks down a stretch of coastline somewhere in the United States. It is expected the horse patrol, operat ing chiefly at night, will greatly increase protection against any enemy landing attempts on isolated benches. 2 U. S. Bombers Missing After Raids On Germany LONDON, Monday, Sept. 7— Iff)—After nine straight sweeps without a loss, two American Flying Fortress bombers were officially reported missing early today following the great est American aerial attack of the war on Nazi-occupied France. Flying Fortress squadrons and fleets of Boston bombers smashed at Nazi airfields and airplane factory yesterday while 400 Allied fighters not only escorted them but swept 50 miles in diversionary at tacks. Only three fighters were officially reported miss ing. The Fortress assaults today were twin attacks. Three squac&rons of the big four-motored bombers attack ed the Airframe factory at Meaulte, near Albert, for the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Chinese Gather Speed In Checkiang Campaign; Foe Hit Hard At Kinhwa CHUNGKING, Sept. 6.—Iff)— The Chinese drive northward through coastal Chekiang pro vince has gathered momentum and the Japanese are heing hit hard in the vicinity of the pro visional capital, Kinhwa, which the enemy is trying desperate ly to hold, the Chinese high command reported today. Chinese forces made their most rapid advance about 35 miles east of the capital where forced marches brought them to the outskirts of the city of Tungyang. The city, a Chi nese communique said, is now being attacked. The Japanese have called in reinforcements to hold Kinhwa, and Lanchi, 10 miles to the north. The Chinese attacks, the high command reported, “are con tinuing and increasing in vig or.” Kinhwa is an air base within bombing range of Japan. The communique also re ported Chinese forces storm ed and occupied Hotichen, in southwestern Shansi province, on Aug. 28. Heavy casualties, it was stated, were inflicted on the Japanese. FDR ENVOY SHOWS MUCH CONFIDENCE Willkie Says ‘Boche Is Stopped In Desert, For Time’ SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST ERN EGYPTIAN DESERT, Sept. 6—(£>)—'Wendell Willkie, after a tour of the desert front, expressed the conviction today that the Ger man threat to Egypt has been eased. Willkie returned from the fight ing zones, where twice enemy fliers dropped bombs near him. with his confidence in the effec tiveness of Egyptian defenses in creased. “My impression is that what has happened here today and the pre ceding two or three days is signifi cant,” the 1940 Republican candi date for President and now Presi cent Roosevelt’s representative on a mission to the Middle East, Rus sia and the Orient, told correspond ents. “The Boche has been stopped on this front.” “But I don't say he has been eli minated,” be added. Willkie went through two air raids in the course of his desert tour. One took place as he slept at the secret headquarters of Lieut. Gen. Bernard Montgomery, British commander of the Eighth Army. The second occurred while be was ;n the front area in the morning. “The cattle being fought here is as important as that 140 years ago at Aboukir (village northeast of Alexandria) in which Admiral Nel son destroyed the French navy and bottled up Napoleon in Egypt, he declared. If the forward march of the Germans had not been stopped all Egypt would have been in danger. I think successes so far achieved were due to the generalship of Gen. Montgomery in cooperation with the RAF and the American Air Force.” Willkie said he has talked with many American soldiers at the front—including tank crews operat ing with Br'tish formations Some (Continued on Fate Two; Col. 7) FORCE GERMANS AWAY Enemy Loses Number Of Russian Villages With Heavy Casualties SOVIET TROOPS HOLD — Battle Around Volga City Grows Fierce But At tacks Repelled MOSCOW. Monday, Sept. 1 — (IP) — A reinforced Red army rolled back German lines northwest of Stalingrad and continued to hold firm southwest of the beleaguered Volga river city, but made “a fighting retreat to new posi tions” around the Black Sea port of Novorossisk, the Soviet midnight communique said today. The high command an nounced that German forces had been driven from a num ber of villages northwest of Stalingrade in a series of counterattacks, inflicting heavy casualties on the ene my. This was the third day that the Germans had failed to gain in the great battle which Berlin described as a “Red Verdun.” The Soviet high command said fighting around Stalin grad had grown even more fierce, with the Germans launching “ceaseless attacks” with tanks, planes and infan try. But the communique said: “Soviet troops are hold ing their positions and repel ling enemy attacks.” Major Battle Raging Another major battle was raging around Novorossisk, major Rus sian naval base on the Black Sea. The Russians acknowledged So (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) NAZIS ANNOUNCE RED CITY TAKEN Germans Broadcast News Of Capture Of Novoris sisk On Black Sea BERLIN. (From German Broad cast), Sept. 6—liP)—The German high command tonight announced 1he capture of the Russian Black Sea naval base of Novorossisk and German military sources si multaneously claimed the Russians were throwing reserves into the fight to hold Stalingrad against “relentlessly advancing German troops.” Nazi sources described Novoros sisk as the last naval harbor of importance left to the Russian Black Sea fleet after the fail of Sevastopol. The high command said booty from the capture was not yet ascertained. The Berlin radio quoted the Ger man Transocean News Agency as saying it had learned the Soviet Military Command was throwing (Continued on Pa&% Two; Col. 8) CD Needs Road Repair Crew: 83 (Men) Duties: Smooth road sur faces, repave and fill holes, re store road markings. Training: General course, J^ire Defense A. Enlisted to date: 17. Quota: 100. Enlisted Friday: Air Raid Wardens . 3 Filter Center. 2 Chaplains . 9 Total .. 14
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