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AVENGE NVN IlNpi W^I IIl'I ’~~^3Bl^Bil!I^Mv,:<iMfc' gk~ ■ ^■'■'A'lflh Served by Leased Wire of the 'IXST THE SUNImkJmR'NEW5 r“™™“ I—-— 1 _ -g}|Tlnll ^©KT <g|)W @F PBQQEiEes OlClf Agya8^ stat.mdw.nw.iMw. —-SIXTEEN PAGES _*|». WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1942_ FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS Russians -- *,_____ __ Ate Holding Oiler Lines Around City Bitter Fighting Costs Ger mans At Least 10,000 In Past Few Days dent is revealed Germans Reported Hurled Back On Front South east Of Leningrad By EDD1 GILMORE MOSCOW. Sunday, Sept. 13.—OP) _j{l( Russians have fallen back ,,,,, one point southwest of Stalin p..,i before the massed blows of tanks and motorized troops blffi siswhere the Soviet legions hcpitne their own in bitter-end fighting which has cost the Ger aw a: feast 10,000 men killed be fore iff city in the last few days. Another 5.000 German soldiers have ten killed or wounded in sharp fighting on the Volkhov front southeast of Leningrad, There the Germans were reported Juried back. The Russians revealed the first tat since Friday in their positions taut Stalingrad in the following rai phrases in the midnight com iiiqne. j Evacuate Locality Southwest of Stalingrad tense tiling took place with enemy zsstd mechanized troops. Soviet tes evacuated one inhabited Hity.1’ :< the greatest and undoubtedly a bloodiest battle of this war SB into its 19th day, the Rus es announced they had once ■:j.- stopped the Germans on the v.tical area west of tire city, where a h mums advanced in frontal K±s lop; week until their war whine was halted Friday. Have upon wave of German sol fcrs - the Russians said against iContinued on Page Three; Col. 4) itiAMERICAN BMPS OVERSEAS Patterson Tells Michigan Workers Force Will Be Doubled To Limit StSKEGOX, Mich.. Sept. 12.—UP) -Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patters-1 .n. making a flying tour k Michigan war industries, told a tcr.enr.e flf war workers today that " a ; r. tioo.ooo men of our armed ®es now are overseas. Trm force will he doubled and and doubled to the limit of ,Ir Grower until we defeat our -fnnes. he declared. “We will on to the finish and a victor one.” 'fretkleiit Roosevelt on Labor 1 disclosed that more than 500, nf, rnerioan troops were overseas.) terson spoke, operations lvar Production plants here a standstill with company tu *n officials disagreeing over tC f o£ tlle walkout. n,» indication that Pat* o”acl knowledge of the shut 1 in his address, paid .10 Michigan industry. on Tigr. Three; Col. 3) -- I ^rationed Areas Asked To Curtail Use Of Gas I price ,S"GT0N’ SePt- 12— W — son , ^strator Leon Hender ratiojej, as*5ed motorists in un toluntarj,aieas to place themselves fee anr|J under the same gaso irols no mileage rationing con !rri stat* ln force in the 17 east •1 H'eeyr,g fbat it would be sever '■Vks co*before coupon ration ■-1 the n r be printed to carry 'c,,!r‘menri^nrA’ide gas rationing Jittee u ed the Baruch com I'oday erson cautioned that flii the cut every day that passes :e 'vastin. 1S made we Americans 5°ne billion tire miles e!*ssary driving Little Men From Mars A home-made machine gun. fashioned from boxes, rubber bands and tin cans, catches the fancy of this group of boys during Orien tal Mardi Gras at Japanese assembly center near San Francisco. British Advance Toward Capital Of Madagascar - _ 70 MILES FROM GOAL French Reports Claim ‘En emy’ Engaged With ‘Very Heavy Losses’ By ALFRED E. WALL. LONDON, Sept. 12—(A1)—British forces pushing inland from the Ma ;unga landing on Madagascar were reported only 70 miles from Tana narive today after a 130-mile ad vance, but French reports said “the enemy” had been engaged en route with “very heavy losses” inflicted and that the going would be tougher over 200 intervening barriers before the capital. The “considerable progress” re ported by the first communique from the British East African command said the drive had car ned to the great bridge over the Betsiboka river but that a concur rent overland advance from the north had been slowed by the French destruction of bridges. French Make Stand The Vichy troops, mostly concen trated outside the capital, made their stand at the confluence of the Ikopa and Betsiboka rivers where the British forces must turn up the Ikopa valley to reach Tana narive by the best route, the Prench said. The first battle was joined yesterday in the vicinity of Maeva tanana, some 90 miles down the load from Majunga, where the British made one of their three major west coast landings Thurs day and advanced swiftly with neg ligible opposition. A broadcast from Tananarive, heard at Port Louis on the British island of Mauritius East of Mada gascar, was less sanguine than the reports from Vichy, declaring the French “still were resisting” at 9:30 a. m. today and “at 3:30 p. m. a detachment of our troops still is holding out at Maevatanana.” Many Barriers “The British will have to over come some 200 barriers stretched across their path between Maeva tanana and Tananarive,” the over heard communique said. British commentators had ex pected the Vichy defenders to put up some resistance but official ad (Continued on Pate Two; Col. 4) His request followed other ihdi cations from OPA that the national rationing plan, when placed in ef fect, would put the rest of the country on an equal footing with the east as to the amount of gaso line allowed motorists. Easterners receive a basic ra tion of approximately four gallons weekly, with supplemental allow ances for motoring deemed es sential. The committee headed by Bernard M. Baruch which investi gated the rubber situation recom mended that motorists be curtail (Continued on Pare Three; Col. 5) Japs Claim Two U. S. Troop Vessels Sunk NEW YORK, Sept. 12—m— A German broadcast, heard here by CBS, attributed to the Japanese today a claim that their submarines sank two United States transport^ with 4,000 men aboard in the Tas man Sea between Australia and New Zealand. The report had no confirma tion. “A fierce explosion took place on one of the transports which sank immediately thereafter,” the broadcast said. “The other transport was gutted with fire and sank in about an hour’s time. Part of the troops per ished.” MANY CANNERIES FACE SHUTDOWNS War-Born Labor Shortage May Result In Big Losses In Tomato Crop INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 12.—(/P)— An acute war-born labor shortage threatened shut-downs today for a dozen canneries and enormous losses in Indiana’s bupnper tomato crop. With the Army depending on the Hoosier state—first in national to mato production—to fill vast ser vice contracts, Army supply offi cers started a speedy canvass of the situation. WPA officials placed a state wide list of workers at disposal of packers, many of whom were buying large advertisements in metropolitan newspapers appealing for workers and emphasizing a call for women “peelers.” WPA aid thwarted shut-downs for at (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA. SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA— Little change in temperature Sunday. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Sept. 12, at 8 a. m„ 22.75 feet. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—(TP)—Weather Bureau reports of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m.: Station High Low Prec. Asheville - 82 57 0.00 Atlanta _ 88 65 0.00 Boston -I_ 80 62 0.00 Cleveland - 84 55 0.24 Detroit _ 82 62 0.00 Fort Worth - 93 71 0.00 Jacksonville - 90 68 0.00 == - s : JSBr=====:S ?34 SSI 5 5 New York - 73 — 0.00 Norfolk - 78 70 0.00 Richmond - 80 65 0-00 St Louis _ 86 70 0.00 Savannah - 89 67 0.00 Washington- 78 66 0.00 Wilmington -- 86 70 0.00 20 Jap Planes Shot Down In Solomon Raids Still Trying Unsuccessfully To Dislodge American Troops In Islands DESTROYERS ACTIVE U. S. Dive Bombers Make Another Attack On Japa nese On Gizo Isle WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—UP)— Paying- a high price in planes and pilots, the Japanese are still trying unsuccessfully to dislodge the Amer ican forces in the Solomons, the Navy reported tonight, and losing better than one out of every five bombers they send over. The Japanese sent two waves of 26 bombers and one of 27 against the Guadalcanal installations on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Of these 79 bombers 15 were de stroyed along with five of the Zero fighters supposed to protect them, bringing to 143 the number of air craft the Japanese have lost in the Solomons fighting. No Losses Reported Of the latest bag of 20, American fighter planes accounted for at least 16; whether the other four also were downed by planes or by anti-aircraft fire was not specified. And— Americans suffered any losses in these aerial combats, they were not reported. The Japanese bomber losses of about 20 per cent on these raids compare with an average loss of about five per cent suffered by the British in their big bomber raids on Germany and the vastly lower losses of American flying fort resses. Only two of the fortresses have been lost since the big raids began in mid-August. W'hile these futile air attacks were made by day, Japanese destroyers prowled off shore by night shelling the United States positions “but no damage has resulted,” the com munique said. On their own account. American dive bombers made another attack yesterday on enemy installations on Gizo island, in the western part of New Georgia group of the Solomons, sinking a small ship and blasting buildings. The Americans had made a previous attack there Sept. 6. Supplying Troops The communique also reported that the Japanese were supplying their troops still fighting in the in (Continued on Page Two; Col- 3) PERMANENT WEED CEILING PLANNED Schedule Will Be Put Into Effect Soon To Replace Temporary Order WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—(A>)— The Office of Price Administra tion said today that permanent ceiling prices would be placed on flue-cured leaf tobacco “shortly” to replace the temporary order now in effect. OPA said it agreed with trade spokesmen that the present sys tem of allowing private buyers to purchase flue-cured tobacco for two separate periods beginning (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Heavy Guard Is Placed Around Vichy Buildings ■ ■ --- VICHY, Unoccupied France, j Sept. 12 —UP)— Springing up at dawn and without any warning, soldiers and police manned ma chine guns at strategic points in | Vichy today and heavily guarded all government buildings and dip- j lomatic hotels in mysterious man- j euvers which authorities dismissed ; as mere practice. Whatever the reason for the brist ling of arms all over the city, it was noted that the guns were point ed at roads leading into Marshal Petain’s capital city. Up to 10:30 a. m. soldiers with full machine-gun equipment guard ed the postoffice which also houses Family Devotion Lead s To Lifer’s Undoing Mrs. Louise O'Brien sits in car with son, Jimm y, 9, as she awaits further word of her husband whose fingerprinting for a defense job led to his unmasking as Ormund Westgate, who escaped from Joliet prison 18 years ago while serving a life term. Westgate (right) took the name O’Brien and led a model life. He voluntarily submitted to fingerpr iuting in New York while seeking a better paying job due to his wife’s illness. He was serving life on a robbery charge. Broughton To Study Housing Problem; Seeking Fayetteville Pipeline Project PROMISES HELP Will Also Give Attention To Pressing Need For Hospital Expansion The critical shipworker housing shortage here and the pressing need for expansion of Wilming ton’s present hospital facilities are two things to which Governor J. Melville Broughton is going to give iris immediate attention, North Carolina’s chief executive prom ised in an interview here yester iay. Climaxing an inland water trip from New Bern to Wilmington by iis first full-dress inspection of the North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany, the governor said that he talked to many workers on the job yesterday morning and that their only complaint was lack of suitable housing for themselves and for their families. Promises Aid “Expansion oi Wilmington’s present hospital space is very bad ly needed,” Governor Broughton declared. He said that he intend ed to do everything in his power to expedite relief for both situa tions. Granting of priorities for an 800 unit demountable unit shipworker project and for an 1,100-unit dura tion dormitory project for married and single workers, both being built by the Federal government here, has speeded up work on the two projects and both are expected to be available by December. However, shipyard officials have estimated that both projects are needed to take care of the present housing shortage and more Fed eral housing will be needed to take care of future increases in employ ment. j A Federal grant has been made for the construction of a three story addition to James Walker Memorial hospital and condemna tion proceedings are underway to obtain land for the site of the addi tion, next to the present hospital plant, but members of the hos pital’s board of governors have j been unable, as yet, to obtain suit able priorities for the new build mg. Sporting a coat of tan from a two-day trip down the inland waterway from New Bern. Gover (Continued on Page Two: Col. 3) the telephone exchange, the rail way stations, and bridges and roads into the city. Outside the city, from which Chief of State Petain was absent on a tour of the unoccupied area, soldiers were massed at strategic spots—heavily at the airfield. There was popular speculation as to whether a serious internal difficulty was expected but authori ties explained that it was practice to test a plan to cope with any possible disorders which might be directed against Petain’s govern ment or the town. I (C» ntinueu on Page Three; Col. 6) - ii Earle Dickinson Wins More Navy Decorations ■ WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—GP) The Navy cross with two gold stars, equivalent of three Navy crosses—and ail air medal for heroism—have been awarded Lieutenant Clarence Earle Dick inson, Jr., 29. The Navy said today that Dickinson won his decorations for four actions against the Japanese in the Hawaiian, Mar shal and Midway islands. He is tlie second man to win three Navy crosses. The other was Lieutenant Noel A. M. Gayler who received his awards a week ago. Dickinson, a native of Wil mington, N. C., now is on duty at the Corpus Christi, Tex., air station. STEEL STRIKERS ARE SUSPENDED Forty Who Halted Work Punished For Violation Of Union Contract GARY, Ind., Sept. 12—UP)—Ap proximately 40 workmen who halt ed production at the Carnegie Illinois steel plate mill by strik ing last night were summarily suspended today for violation of their union contract. The mill, largest of its kind west of the Alleghenies, rolls 160 inch plate for the Navy and Mari time commission. Normal opera tions were resumed late today after the strikers, all cranemen, loaders or hookers, were replaced. A company spokesman who would not permit the use of his name said the suspensions were made with the approval of the men’s union, the United Steel Workers of America (CIO). Union officials branded the walkout a wildcat strike. “This action represents a stif fening of the attitude of both the company and the union to work stoppages which interfere with war production,” the company spokes man said. He explained that a contract signed by the union and the steel corporation in Pittsburgh a week ago provided that workmen re sponsible for stoppages “may be suspended or dismissed.” Ten of the strikers have been given no tice of their suspension “subject to dismissal,” and the rest will be notified as soon as possible. Work at the mill is so inte grated. the spokesman said, that the strikers were able to halt production entirely for about 20 hours. The strike began at 4 p.m. yesterday. Late this morning foremen and other work supervisors, with ap proval of the union, manned the cranes to get the line going again. Regular operators were obtained for the shift beginning at 4 p.m. today ROUTE REVERSAL Plan Would Serve To Re lieve Gasoline Shortage In This Section A reversal of the route by which oil and gasoline products flowed frcm Wilmington to up-state local! ties may serve to relieve southeast ern North Carolina’s present gaso line shortage due to transportation difficulties, Governor J. Melville Broughton revealed here yesterday. The governor said that he was working on a project whereby the present pipeline into the state from oil fields of Texas via Charlotte tc Greensboro would be extended from Charlotte to Fayetteville. WOULD USE BARGE Gasoline barges which in times oi peace haul the petroleum products from tankers here in Wilmington to Fayetteville could then brins gas from the pipeline terminus ir Fayetteville to Wilmington for dis tribution. “The method is quite practic able.” the governor declared. He said that he had conferred with Senator Josiah W. Bailey, chairman of the Senate’s commerce commit, tee under which pipelines come, several times on the subject. Loss of ocean-going tankers in the Atlantic to Nazi submarines and the diversion of the remaining tank ers to other routes has cut the movement of gasoline products through Wilmingtcfci to a trickle. The city once ranked as the leading oil port on the east coast. Failure to utilize the inland water, way for transportation of gasoline and other products was scored heavily by the governor in the course of the interview7. “In our trip here along the water, way from Morehead City, Friday, a distance of some 95 miles, we saw only one ship of any size.” Gover nor Broughton said. “I was appalled to find that a thoroughfare which was designed for this sort of an emergency sc lttle used.” The one vessel, however, was an oil barge, he said. “I am going back and report that to Washington as one of the many circumstances indicating the neg (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Indians Propose F.D.R. Mediate Their Problem LONDON. Sept. 12—<-P)—Indian proposals that President Roosevelt be invited to mediate the trouble some Indian problem found echo in Britain today, now that the way to direct negotiation apparently has been closed by Prime Minister Churchill’s sharp criticism of the congress disobedience campaign. “We should swallow our pride and invite the President of the United States to arbitrate on In dia,” the labor peer, Lord Strabol gi, said in an address at Basing stoke. He took cognizance of Churchill's suggestion that a Japanese fifth Ticket Sales To Be Opened Here Monday Movie Actress Jane Wy man And Jinx Falkenburg Will Be Present SLATED NEXT SUNDAY Everyone Who Attends Will Be Reauired To Pur chase $500 Bond Pre-sale reservations for the “Stars Over America” dinner here next Sunday at which Cinema Actresses Jane Wy man and Jinx Falkenburg will be present, are being made at a rapid rate, Allen C. Ewing, chair man of War bond and ticket sales for the day, said yesterday. Tickets for the event, which will be held in the Cape Fear country club at 2 p. m. will officially go on sale Monday at the city’s banks, building and loan associations and by special salesmen selected for the event. Prerequisite to the purchase of a $1.50 ticket is the purchase of a minimum of a $500 War Savings bond which retails for $375 and Chairman Ewing said he was con fident that many of the guests at the dinner would purchase bonds of even higher maturity value boosting the average “admission” to the luncheon to better than $500. Others Limited Since Wilmington is the only southeastern North Carolina town at which the stars, now touring the country under the sponsorship of the Treasury department, will appear, an invitation to citizens of surrounding towns and counties to attend the dinner and the rally which will follow in the auditor ium of New Hanover high school has been extended by J. G. Thorn ton and Emsley Laney, city and county War Bond sales chairman, and by A. G. Grist, special War bond sales chairman for this month. Residents of other counties can purchase tickets for the dinner through their county* War Bond chairmen or in Wilmington, Chair man Ewing said, and added that he expected every one of the 200 (Continued on Page Two; Col. I) FURTHER CHANGES IN TAX BILL to Treasury Tells Senate Group Only $830,000, 000 Added To Plan it WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.—UP)— Members of the Senate Finance committee, told by the treasury to day that their action on the tax bill had added only $830,000,000 to the annual revenue provided by the house, indicated that they might consider further changes in the lev ies on individuals. With a reopening of the tax sched ules which already have been tent atively adopted, sales tax advocates hoped to revive a levy of this type and there were indications that a modified version of the "pay as you go” plan might be considered. Calling a meeting of the commit tee for Monday morning, Chairman George (D-Ga.) told reporters the bill still was open to last minute changes but would not predict whether any would be made. He said the treasury had esti mated that as the measure stood it would raise $7,100,000,000 more (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) column might be working in India by telling labor party members: “I fear a repetition of what hap pened in Burma where important elements turned to the Japanese after being rebuffed in London.” Lord Winster, another laborite, spoke at Cardiff criticizing Chur chill’s statement, saying: “The time has long since gone by to talk about India in the tone of a cavalry subaltern of the 1870’s.” In line with other laborites, how ever, Lord Winster declared that (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)