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Served By Leased Wire Of The -- associated PRESS REMEMBER WIDE WORLD Wiih Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR Slate and National News AND BATAAN rnTi 76—NO. 14 — --- 'jiiL-----—- ESTABLISHED 1867, When U. S. Chief Of Staff Inspected Iceland Troops General George C. Marshall (center foreground), United States Army Chief of Staff is shown during a recent in spection of American troops at a U. S. army camp in Iceland. This is an official U. S. Army Signal Corpes photo. CUE TIME PAY WT FOR SUNDAYS F, D. R. S gns Order Elimi nating Scale For Spe cific Holiday WASHINGTON, Sept. 9— (£■) — President Roosevelt signed an exe cuiive order today eliminating' payment of double-time rates for ark on Saturday, Sunday, or Poli na-:, as such. The order permits double time for a sevomh consecutive day of ark, but rot for any particular fay of tne week as such. The cays of the week lose their identity ::: wage-determining purposes, lie action, the White House said, is in line with pledges given the President several months ago by AFL President William Green and CIO President Philip Murray. ''Many unions.” said the an nouncement, ‘'have already modi fied their contracts to put this pledge into effect, and in order to make the practice universal the order has been issued.” The CIO United Auto Workers, at its Chicago convention last month, sewed notice it would not oe bound \rj its promise to waive double time rates unless all other unions complied within 30 days. In a recent. National Labor Reia ‘icns board case, the United Auto Workers complained that a rival AFL union had campaigned against “With an argument that the UAW bad needlessly waived double time raies against the best interests of me workers. The White House announcement sa;r double time for the sev enth day of work was to encour age, in the interest of efficiency, ne day of ; est in seven. The or ei Perimis payment for work ,er ™ hours a week at the rate 1 toe and a half, as provided in Wage-Hour act. e announcement did not say i, ,a,t toergency powers specifical '' ,ne President drew upon for the ™ich enters the much-dis ed field 0f wage control, j -V workers strike WMJOX, sept. 9.—(ip,—Workers “Ughtnit steel-producing Luxem Eon? Me declared today to have Huai °n generaT strike in protset little1;- tlle incorP°ration of the jji. 'ranii. Duchy into the German W ,,antl in defiance of Nazi watrn I bp\„ »at corn’icted strikers would Sfntenced to death. , weather Wt,, forecast h‘..rr,n CAROLINA—Little change "Nperature today STANDARD TME) S. Weather Bureau) »n;3581cal data for the 24 hours end P- m • yesterday. 1:30 a temperature t0; ?:3oDm' 7r' 7:30 a' m- 77: 1:30 P- m I ty a,.*'?• 80; maximum 92; minimum 1 83 normal 74. 1:30 a Humidity 7-3o’ ra' l00; 7 :3° a- m. 87; 1:30 p. m. ” P. rn. 74. Total f Precipitation 6 !»., im -tlle 24 hours ending 7:30 CI 'he 1,lrhes; total since the firs' 1.76 inches. , 'From For Today o- S. 3 !r'c Tables published by 1 and Geodetic Survey), "’hminot,,. High Low - - 9:31a. 4:22a. M«onboro i„i , 9:49p. 4:31p. ° Inlet- 7 :10a. j :08a. . Sunrise 7:25p. 1:23p. ‘ !!a: moonset 6 38pnSet C:26p; moonrise ’•He ..l2r «v« stage at Fayelte •ttl. ' cdncsday at 8 a. m., 2.31 '"■•“riled on Page Three; Col. 4> Big Navy Transport Bums At Sea; i All Passengers Said To Be Saved BROUGHTON NAMES BONEY SUCCESSOR W. P. Hodges, Former Deputy Insurance Com missioner, Appointed RALEIGH, Sept. 9—UP!—'William P. Hodges, 36-year-old native of Martin county, was appointed State Insurance Commissioner tonight by Governor Broughton. He will be sworn in tomorrow at i.oon in the Governor's office. In appointing Hodges, Broughton followed a precedent of elevating deputy commissioners to the com missionership. Hodges had been deputy commissioner since 1936, when he was named to the post by Dan C. Boney, the man whom he succeeds. Hodges’ appointment came one day after the funeral of Boney, who died Monday morning after a two-day illness. The Governor announced Hodges was appointed for the length of Boney’s unex pired term, which runs until Jan uary 1, 1945. The Williamston native will be the fourth man to hold the insur ance post. His predecessors were James R. Young, Stacy W. Wade and Boney. Both Wade.and Boney became commissioners after serv ing apprenticeships as deputies. Young was the first commissioner. Hodges is a graduate of Wake Forest college, where he was awarded the LL. B. degree in 1928. He practiced law in Raleigh from 1929 to 1934 with Gen. Albert L. Cox, and continued his practice alone for two years after Gen. Cox moved to Washington. WI LL ARDPICNIC UNHURT BY WAR Annual Experiment Sta tion Field Day To Be Held This Morning War-time restrictions have failed to remove the annual field day at the Coastal Plains station at Willard, scheduled this for today from its accustomed place as a ma jor event on the fall calendar for eastern North Carolina farmers and their families. Gasoline and tire rationing, however, is expected to reduce the number of farm families attending while other war and health regu lations have made it necessary to request that persons attending the annual event bring basket lunches. Tables for the picnic lunches have been provided and barbecue, cold drinks and ice cream will be on sale as usual. W. Kerr Scott, state commis sioner of agriculture, will serve as chairman of the twenty-sixth an nual field day and Ben E. Doug las, state director of civilian de fense and former mayor of Char lotte, will make the principal ad dress. Civilian defense will play a large part in the war-time program which has been planned for the day. In addition to the address (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) Former Liner Manhattan Gutted By Fire While In Atlantic Convoy WASHINGTON Sept. 9. — (IP)— Tales of cool herosim and daring rescue were told today by surviv ors of the Navy Transport Wake field — once the $10,000,000 liner Manhattan — guted last Thursday night by a fire which swept through that great vessel as though it had been “a barn full of hay.” First word of the fire, which ocurred somewhere on the Atlan tic while the transport was travel ling in convoy to an East Coast Port, was given out by the Navy here. It said a preliminary check up indicated that all the crew and pasengers, totalling about 1,600, had been saved, although several were injured. The pasengers included civilians, j and presumably sailors, while the vesel had a normal crew of 500 to 700 men. She was skippered by Comander Harold Gardner Brad bury of Port Angeles, Washington. After escorting warships in the con voy had taken all the passengers and personnel off, and the intensity of the fire had decreased some what, Commander Bradbury led a fire fighting party back aboard the stricken vessel, and brought the flames under control. The blackened hulk was then tow ed to port. Officials have not yet determined the cause of the fire, which broke out on one deck level and spread to another. At. an East Coast Port, survivors gave vivid word pictures of the rescue scene—quick action to flood the explosives magazine and toss shells into the sea. Marines clam bering aboard to prevent any panic, a destroyer coming alongside and smashing her superstructure against the towering hull of the former liner, while the destroyer captain said “to hell with the bridge—hold her in.” “It was shortly after seven o’clock Thursday night,” said Rob ert Crabtree, of Pawtucket, R. I., a passenger. “I was lying on the deck near the bow of the ship when I saw men looking over the rail. I didn’t pay too much attention be cause I thought they were watching the destroyers or looking for sub marines. “Then I saw a thin wisp of smoke, and, like a lot of others, I thought somebody’s matress had caught fire from a cigarette and that they probably would throw the matress overboard. “While I was looking, probably only a matter of two or three min utes, the smoke and fire seemed to race from one end of the trans port to the other and -completely eneveloped the shin. “We were headed into the wind, and the skipper quickly hove the transport around, so that the wind blew the smoke and flames away from us instead of from stem to stern. “There were long blasts from the ship’s whistle. Distreee flags were run up. “Almost immediately a destroy er and a cruiser started racing to our rescue. Large carg- nets were swung over the side of the burn ing transport. We began clawing at the ropes of the net as though ot was a rope ladder. “Some of the men fell from the net into the water, but it was still light and Navy men quickly pulled them from the water onto (Continued on Pa^e Three; Col. X) Durham Man Killed In Munitions Blast DURHAM, Sept. 9.—(/P)—A Dur ham man was instantly killed and seven persons were injured slightly early this morning when an explo sion occurred at a mixing house of the National Munitions company plant in Carrboro. The man killed was identified as Carlis M. Rice, 29, of Durham, a worker in the plant. Company officials announced that seven persons were hurt slightly and Coroner Walker of Orange county said none of the injured was hurt badly enough to require hospitalization. Names of those in jured were not disclosed. KAISER-NELSON PARLEY STALLS West Coast Construction Engineer Says ‘No Verdict Yet’ WASHINGTON, Sept. 9- (TP) Henry J- Kaiser said tonight that a conference with Donald M. Nelson, war production chief, had produced “no verdict” on his proposal for the mass construction of huge cargo carrying airplanes. Nelson had previously told news men after the conference that “we are going to pursue this thing just as rapidly as possible to its logical conclusion.” He’did not say just what he im plied by “logical conclusion.” Kaiser said the conference was handicapped by the fact that neither his own engineer, Douglas Albert, nor K. E. Ridley, engineer for his associate, Howard Hughes, were present. Albert was grounded enroute to the east last night by weather, he said, and although Ridley was in Washington, by misunderstanding he could not be found. Kaiser said he planned further conferences with Nelson and the engineers tomorrow. The engineers, he said, were in possession of all the complete and final details of plans for the cargo ships and little progress could be made without them. Reporters questioned him closely ! aS to details of the new plane. He woHjld disclose only that it is to be “conventional” in general design. He is, however, prepared to use either aluminum or plywood in its construction, he said. Hughes, he added, had thoroughly | tested plywood for this purpose and i found it entirely feasible and prac tical. He insisted as, previously that both materials, and labor were available for making the planes. When ques tioned on the point of the availa bility of aluminum, he quoted a high official of the Reynolds com pany as saying that it could double or triple its aluminum output if permitted to do so. As his plans have finally taken shape, he said, a much large proportion of sub contracting must be done than was originally intended. He brought with him to Washing ton, he added, a list of available sub-contractors for this work. He also brought complete and final specifications and estimates of ma terial needs. GERMANS NEAR STALINGRAD AS REDS FALL BACK AGAIN; TOBRUK BOMBED BY BRITISH GROUND ACTION LIGHT Both Medium And Heavy Bombers Take Part In Raid On Axis Port DESTROY EQUIPMENT Another Raid On Salum Matruh Road Blasts Many Enemy Units CAIRO, Sept. 9.—(JP)— Ground activity in the West ern Resert remained at a standstill today, but Allied Air forces smashed again at Axis supply lines with heavy raids last night on the Salum Matruh road and on the port of Tobruk, which already had been pounded with 3,000 tons of bombs since June 23. Both medium and heavy bombers were included in a “big force” which attacked Tobruk, leaving huge fires raging in the dock area and near fuel installations, it was learned tonight. Number of Trucks Destroyed The attack on the Salum-Matruh road was announced in today’s com munique, which said a number of trucks, gasoline carriers and staff cars was destroyed. Allied planes shot down three German planes in an gir fight over enemy territory and destroyed two other enemy planes in other actions. The communique also announced that bomber and torpedo planes had scored hits on an enemy destroyer and two merchant vessels during an attack on a convoy in the Central Mediterranean Monday night. One of the vessels was left with a heavy list and with black smoke pouring from its stern. SYNTHETIC RUBBER OUTLOOK BRIGHTER More Than 950,000 Short [Tons To Be Produced In Coming Year BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 9.—W— America’s answer to Japan on rub ber was given today by the War Production Board, which disclosed figures indicating more than 950, 000 short tons of synthetic rubber will be producced yearly by or be fore November next year. The production figures, covering butadiene rubber only, were in a report to the American Chemical Society submitted by Dr. Albert L. Elder of the WPB, who said that the “Japs have completely under estimated our technical ability.” The short tons (2,000 pounds) would be about 750,000 long tons (2,240 pounds). Most estimates of America’s rubber needs have cus tomarily been in long tons, al though the designation as to the kind of tons was aftenomitted, How much additional synthetic rubber from the other American syknthetic sources will come in the next year was not discussed today, j Previously the expanded rate for Neoprene, an excellent tire synth etic, has been given at 40,000 tons a year; Buytl rubber as 132,0001 tons, and Thiokol has variously been estimated a tover 100,000 tons. Presumably these estimates were for long tons. Butadiene, which forms three fourths of the ruber made from the j Butadiene-Styrene process, is the j single big raw material which de-j termines the speed of all the rest j of the rubber program. To it, is j (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) \ Red Cross Canteen Here Doing Much To Aid Army Exemplifying Wilmington’s spirit of friendliness and its recognition of the sacrifices being made by the men in the service are mem bers of the Red Cross Canteen Corps who have been serving meals for the past three months at the Atlantic Coast Line station here to soldiers arriving on troop trains for assignment to Camp Davis. The canteen, set up in the rail road station at the request of com manding officers at Camp Davis, operated at first only on a three day-a-ween schedule. It now is on hand to serve lunches to arriving soldiers every day. jf —---i U. S. Attacks Jap Bases In Northwest Solomons WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—(4>) —American air forces, turning once more to the offensive in the Solomon Islands, bombed and strafed Japanese shore in stallations on Gizo Island, 215 miles northwest of the U. S. base on Guadalcanal, the Navy announced tonight. The operation was carried out last Sunday without any re sistance from the enemy and apparently marked the start of a whole new phase of offensive activity in the conquest of the Solomons. Ever since the Solo mons invasion started August 7, it lias been expected that the islands would be followed by at tacks on Jap positions to the northwest. The Navy communique dis closing the aerial assault on Gizo said that the process of mopping up enemy units in Guadalcanal was continuing. (Continued on Page Three;; Col. 3) RAF CONTINUES EUROPEAN RAIDS Big Bombers Range Over Occupied Lands ^Buda pest Radio Silent LONDON, Sept. 9 — (£) — Radio shutdowns tonight in Berlin, Paris, Budapest and old Czechoslovakia indicated that Allied bombers were ranging over great areas of German-occupied Europe from both British and Russina air dromes. The evidence of air-raids was most postiive in Budapest where the announcer in his last words be fore going off the air told of an alert. Next heard from the Budapest transmitter were air raid precau tions orders in code. The German-controlled Czech stations which closed down are at Prague and Bratislava. It is the second attack of the war on the Hungarian capital. Russian bombers raided Budapest last Friday night and left fires raging in the city. The regular program on the Budapest long wave band was stopped shortly before 10 p. m. when a Hungarian speaker broke in with the exclamation “atten tion anti-air raid defenses!” Then came instructions to air raid precautions groups, giving respective numbers in each case. The instructions were repeated at intervals varying from a few seconds to five minutes, with dif ferent units addressed from time to time. The salutation each time was “be careful!” An hour and a half after the programs stopped, the instructions, followed by intervals of silence (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) -V British Planes Destroy Two Armed German Ships In Channel Near France LONDON, Sept. 9.—(IP)—RAF Whirlwinds, Britain’s newest fighter-bombers, sank two arm ed trawlers off Cap de la Hague, near Cherbourg, today when they made their first foray. Escorted by Spitfires, the Whirlwinds swooped to attack four trawlers attempting to sneak from de la Hague to the Island of Alderney. Bursts of cannon fire set two of the ships afire and bombs finished them. The, Whirlwinds have been modified to carry two bombs. The Whirlwind was built as a single seated, twin-English fighter with - a speed of more than 400 miles an hour. Its long range for a fighter and heavy armament—four cannon in the nose — made it suitable for the switch. Other fighters similarly con verted arc the Hurribombers and Kittybombers. Five units, captained by Mrs. W. B. Daniels, Mrs. T. F. Gause, Mrs. J. Ti. Gerdes, Mrs. H. H Jeter, and Mrs. W. F King, operate the canteen Each unit is on duty every fifth day. Hungry soldiers drink three pounds of coffee and eat ten dozen aoughnuts every day at the can teen while 12 cases of Coca-Cola (.all that rationing allows) is used by the canteen every week. For breakfast iruit juices, crackers, coffee and doughnuts are served, while doughnuts, coffee and Coca (Continued on Face Three; Col. 1) JAPS CLOSING IN ON PORT MORESBY Invader Crosses Stanley Range In New Guinea; By-Passes Allies GEN. MacARTHUK’S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Thursday, Sept. 10.— (JP) —Japanese troops have pushed through the Owen Stanley mountains and now are less than 44 miles, from the big Allied base of Port Moresby, key stone of New Guinea defenses, an Allied communique said today. The enemy "successfully out flanked our positions at Myola” on the northern side of the mountains, reached Efogi on the southern side only 44 miles from Port Moresby, and did still another outflanking movement, the Allied command an nounced. ;; “Fighting is now to the south along a narrow trail which leads across a mountainous divide,” the ominous communique said. Allied airplanes bombed and strafed the enemy in cooperation with ground forces which were fighting ‘‘tenaciously and gallantly under conditions of extraordinary hadship and difficulty,” the war bulletin said. The Allied defense forces were commanded by Lieut. Gen. S. F. Rowel!, former deputy chief of the Australian General Staff. The drive to Efogi represented a 16-mile advance from Kokoda where the Japanese began their drive sev eral days ago. Dispatched from the front said that the enemy already ‘‘has cover ed the toughest part” of the tor tuous trail leading to Port Moresby. The enemy is reported using special jungle fighters who parti cipated in the overrunning of Malaya and Singapore, and the tactics are the same —- a steady infiltration and outflanking of Al lied defenders who are supplied (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) TALMADGELEADS IN GEORGIA RACE Incumbent Governor Has Slight Majority Over Opponent Arnall ATLANTA, Sept. 9.— UP> —First scattering of returns from rural precincts in Georgia’s Democratic primary today gave Governor Eu gene Talmadge an early lead in his bid for renomination and a fourth term as head of the “Cracker State.” The governor, who ran under a banner of “white supremacy," moved on the basis of inconclusive returns into a lead in 85 counties having 214 of the unit votes which determine the nominations that are equivalent to election in one-party Georgia. His only rival, chunky attorney General Ellis Arnall, was ahead in 33 county with 100 units. Returns from none of the coun ties were complete or conlusive and the court inclinded no city boxes which closed at 8 p. m. Rural vot ing ended at 4 p. m. Early sports gave scant atten tion to the other contests but Sen ator Richard B. Russell, Jr., seem ed to be running away from Wil liam D. Upshaw with a popular count of 2,150 to 658 and the lead in counties, having 56 units... The popular vote count from 571 of the state’s 1,708 preciencts gave Halmadge 23.033 and Arnall 20,505 but the popular vote is of no signi ficance under Georgia’s unique pri mary setup because nominations are determined by county unit (Continued on Page Three;; Col. 3) ENTER* NOVOROSSISK Nazi Troops Break Into Outskirts Of Black Sea Naval Base FIGHTING IN CITY Russian Artillery Slowing Invaders Drive In The Caucasus Port MOSCOW. Thursday, Sept. 10-(/P) — Massed German tanks and infantry smashing in a frontal assault toward the western gates of Stalin grad forced the Red Army to give up two more populated places in the third Russian re treat in as many days, an official announcement said early today. German troops also “broke into the norwestern out skirts” of Novorossisk, Sov iet Black Sea naval base in the Caucasus which the Ger mans claimed capturing Sun day, despite “tremendous losses in men and material.” the communique acknowledg ed. Courageous Red Army men trying to make a “Red Ver dun” of Stalingrad were re ported fighting against tanks with only rifles, but the tre mendous German armored columns attacking frontally were creeping closer daily to the imperilled Volga River city. (The Berlin radio quot ed a dispatch as saying that some German troops had reached the city itself.) Repulse Constant Attacks Southwest of Stalingrad the Rus sians said their troops were re pulsing' constant attacks and that (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -V DEFENSE LEADERS TO MEET IN CITY Heads Of New Hanover And Brunswick Counties Will Gather Tonight Called at the direction of Briga dier-General P. A. Weatherred of Fort Bragg, commander o£ Interior security for this district, civilian de fense heads of New Hanover and Brunswick county will meet in the assembly hall of the Cape Fear ho tel at 10 o'clock Friday morning, Chairman Louis Poisson of the New Hanover defense council said last night. Present for the meeting in addi tion to the general will lie Gen E. Douglas, former mayor of Charlotte and state director of civilian de fense. Invited to be present at the ses sion with the defense council chair men of the two counties are Chief of Police Charles H. Casteen of Wilmington, Chief of Police William E. Singletary of Wrightsville. Beach, Chief of Police E. V. Leonard of (Continued on Paye Two; Col. 4) CD Needs Auxiliary Police: 49 (Men Only) Duties: To assist regular po lice during Blackouts or Air Raids. Training: General Course, Fire Defense A and B, Gas De fense B, and 10 hours First Aid. Enlisted to date: 151. Quota: ZOO. Enlisted Yesterday unapiam . 1 Control Room . Z Filter Center .. 1 Spotter ... Z Total . 6 -9
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