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Served By Leased Wire Of The * ^ __ sm: tintittgimt muting §>tar * , , ~ ” -------N‘ C‘’ MQNDAY< SEPTEMBER 14, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. rvuuuer <jrroup AGvises diasning Car Use : . :0; "" ?iflMWBIIKBIIIllllllTMnnninnniniiiiiHi « _. These three men formed the special committee that probed the nation’s rubber problems and reported to the President that there should be nation-wide rationing of gasoline and automobile use to aid the war effort through conservation of rubber. (L. to R.) as they left the White House after making their report, Bernard Baruch' chairman; Dr. Karl Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’ and James B. Conant, president of Harvard. British Madagascar Occupation taceing Very Little Opposition ------★ - M___ m SUB FIRES I SHIP IN PORT Nazi Raider Attacks Ves sels Moored In Carlisle Bay, Barbados By The Associated Press The Battle of the Atlantic, ap pmly entering a new phase liSaturday’s Axis submarine at Ekupon vessels moored in Car b:;Bay. Barbados, claimed eight ere Allied merchantmen in offi announcements last week, imports from Bridgetown on the fe attack of the war on the Bri ls West Indies island revealed is the raider remained in the r 25 minutes and fired five tor ;«$ while under fire from shore taieries. So mention was made of dam a in a statement issued by the intamation officer on the island. ItW said there were no casual tifj. Meanwhile. though reports from a East Coast Canadian air base .Ast week indicated that more ene my submarines had been destroyed by bombers off Canada’s east coast teng summer operation than Al lied surface craft sunk there by U fcftats. Soya] Canadian Naval Head Quarters had a word of warning for fojse optimism” in connection "hn the submarine menace. Admitting that shipping losses in ’f "'ar at sea had lessened during ™ summer months, the Canadians tared that the Battle of the At fflltc was “of far greater scope ever before experienced.” Other developments during the i. e;': bncluded the announcement of •^vco s sixth ship loss of the war 6,511-ton Amatlan: the first t.r i i0f a Polish vessel in West ^•Atlantic waters—that country’s us loss since 1939: and the re j, J, imprisonment aboard ene b undersea raiders of three more il^ams whose vessels were j.;tdoed to the bottom. Seven :f1*. , marinors recently have ■_ taken prisoner aboard attack « U-boats. J.'east 20 seamen perished in ?s reported last week, but ij , .®'s Were rescued and land itjS. nited Nations ports. Seven including the three skip siei n k 311 en§'neer who were EDn-t a-’°ai'd submarines, were missing. a-'-' or Allied merchantmen Coi>linoed on paee Three; Col. 3) weather SoiiTw „ FORECAST: W, CAROLINA—Little change wature today. STANDARD TIME) 5!«K> i. S Weather Bureau) “i",8 T:3o‘Cal data ior the 24 hours P- m. yesterday. J30a Temperature: l. ’a'p m73: 7:30 a. m. 70; 1:30 p. m. 1 ^an 7a! Ii: maximum 88; minimum normal 74. ,1:JH r„ . Humidity: 1:39 p!’m' ,430 a' m- 97; 1;3° P- ra 7°tal fot precipitation: : O.oo !„„? 24 hours ending 7:30 ‘^e month i ^s’ ^otal since the first 1,76 inches. Fr»m tf,e TS„F0R TODAY; . ,aG Tables published by h?'. c°ast an^ ^ High Low %,«gton d Geodetic Survey) : 8 -a. 6:55a. S»“»°ro Inlet 12:3°P- T:31p. - 10:07a. 3:51a. £r‘se 5:54a- , 10:19p. 4:27p "loonset’gS^9pSet G:21nl moonrise lC“»tioued , on page Xwo. Col jj LONDON, Sept. 13—(JP)—Britisn troops penetrated more deeply into Madagascar today, every dispatch from the French island southeast of Africa indicating that the occu pation was being carried out sys tematically and with little opposi tion. The British said they were at tempting to inflict as little punish ment as possible on French troops standing in the way of marches on the capital, Tananarive, from the north and south. “We are getting on,” said a mili tary commentator. “But it must be remembered that one of our sub jects in these operations is not to cause Frencn casualties.” Today’s communique said mere ly that “the advance on the capital continues.” The phrase was interpreted to mean that the occupation troops are closer than 71 miles, the dis lance announced by yesterday’s communique. A central column encountered an obstacle at the Betsiboka river on the road to Tananarive, where a section of a suspension bridge had been lowered into the water. French troops there made a ges ture of opposition. British reports said 47 French prisoners were taken, a few of the defenders wounded. The river was crossed early yesterday. The fighting at the river was re ported by the Vichy radio, but French reports that British losses were high were considered baseless hi authoritative quarters here. An official report from Nairobi, Kenya Colony, said that no French artillery fired in the course of the British landing at Majunga Thurs day. British 15 and six inch naval guns were at hand, but it was not necessary to bring them into ac tion. Semi-official reports from Nai robi stated the British started land (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) HENDERSON WARNS NATION ON TIRES OPA Head Calls For Less Waste Of Rubber In Needless Driving WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 — (4>> — Price Administrator Leon Hender son told motorists today that the tires on their cars constituted a bigger stockpile of rubber than the government’s and that wasting it could lose the war. He estimated that 1.000,000.000 tire miles were wasted in unneces sary driving every day throughout the country, enough rubber to re cap 200,000 tires, and declared, “that is waste that can lick us in the kind of fight we’re in unless we cut out that waste right now.” Henderson urged, in an address prepared for the National Broad casting Company network, that motorists throughout the country apply to themselves voluntarily the gasoline rationing restrictions already impsoed on the east with out waiting'for the rationing ma chinery to be set up several weeks hence. His radio appeal was simi lar to that he issued in a state ment last night. Henderson said that before the war the country was using 600, 000 tons of rubber annually for all purposes, most of which went into tires, and that now military re quirements alone demand 574,000 tons. Therefore, he continued, some 1,000,000 tons of rubber in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) LAWMAKERS MEET ON FDR PROPOSAL Ready For Action In Con gress Today On Anti Inflation Laws WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.— OP) — New cost of living control legisla tion to be introduced in Congress tomorrow will establish “guideposts” for industrial wages as well as farm prices, Senate Majority Leader Bark ley announced after a parley with house members late today. “It will give the President all the power he needs to deal with farm products and labor,” Barkley said. “It will authorize him to bring about a general stabilization of the price of farm products and of wages." Four senators and four House members attended the unusual Sun day strategy conference in the mas sive Senate office building. Con ferees included Barkley, Chairman (Continued on Page Two; Col. S) —-V Bulgarian Macedonia In Revolt And State Of Siege Proclaimed LONDON, Sept. 14—WW—Bul garian Macedonia is in revolt and a state of siege has been proclaimed in Skoplje and Its environs according to despatch es reaching German circles in Stockholm, Reuters reported tonight from the Swedish- cap ita!. The dispatch said that rev olutionary groups were terror izing the population and that Bulgarian officials had been killed in several towns and vil lages. The Bulgarian government is one of the Balkan partners of the Axis. Russians were saidi to be providing the forces of the uprising with ammunition and food, dropped by para chute. War Bond Rally Tickets On Sale In City Today Tickets for the “Stars Over America” war bond dinner which will be held here next Sunday aft ernoon go on sale this morning, Allen C. Ewing, chairman of the ticket committee • nnounced. Highlight of the event will be the appearance of two of Holly wood’s young stars, Jinx Falken burg and Jane Wyman. The pair will make their only visit to south eastern North Carolina at the ban quet here and residents of this area are urged to attend. The price of admission is $1.50 for the dinner but all persons at tending must pledge to buy at least one war bond with a maturity value of $500 or more. The banquet will be held in the Cape Fear County Club at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon and immediately following will be a war bond rally at the High School in which the two movie stars will take part. Following the custom of enter taining the guests with pep talks and inducements to buy bonds, the celebrities will do their bit in this community. Many millions of dollars worth of war bonds have been sold through the efforts of Hollywood’s ash Bases Guinea Sink One Merchant Vessel; Cruiser And Other Ships Struck LAE, SALAMAUA HIT Seventeen Tons Of Bombs Dropped On Airdrome Held By Enemy GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Austra lia, Monday. Sept. 14.—(lP)— Allied bombers again dealt smashing blows at Japanese bases in New Guinea and on shipping west of this battle area yesterday, sinking at least one merchant vessel and bombing an enemy cruiser and two other merchantmen with unknown results, a com munique said today. The New Guinea invasion bases at Lae and Salamaua were targets for the main at tacks. Seventeen tons of bombs were dropped on in stallations and in the dis persal areas around the Lae airdrome, destroying two bombers on the ground. Ground Action Lig^t Ground action in the Owen Stan ley mountain range, where the Japanese have been halted about 40 miles north of the Allied base at Port Moresby, was confined to patrol activity, the communique said. Two enemy merchant ships were attacked by medium bombers off Seloe Island, in the Tenimber group west of New Guinea and north of Darwin, Australia. The stern of one was blown off and the vessel was left sinking. The other was raked with machinegun fire. In the Kai Islands just to the north of the Tenimber group an Allied reconnaissance unit bombed (Continued on tage Two; Col. 4) LABORTREEZING’ UNDER DISCUSSION Congressman Considering Holding Of Men On Vital War Jobs WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—W— Legislation to “freeze” workers in vital war industries to their jobs was discussed at the capitol today as Congressman returned from the hustings and fishing holes, ending several weeks of informal recess. The Congressmen were recon vened primarily to act on the anti inflation measure which President Roosevelt had demanded by Octo ber 1 but other business, including the bills to draft 18 and 19-year-olds which are pending in both cham bers, also will claim their atten tion. Some influential lawmakers who declined to be quoted by name said that a complete inventory of the nation’s labor resources and steps to assure its most efficient use might precede any action to (Continued on Pnge Three; Col. 6) top flight stars. It was in the in terest of these sales that led the ill-fated Carole Lombard to fly westward after a war bond rally last winter in order to appear at another dinner as soon as possible. On that flight she lost her life. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Petain Goverment Establishes Fo reed LaboiEatvFdrFren chm en VICHY, Sept. 14, —(.!>)—The Petain government established to day the principle of forced labor and total Dictatorship over em ployment in one of the most radi cal laws in French history. Every Frenchman between the ages of 18 and 50 and every un married French woman between 21 and 35 are subject to be called up “to effect all labors which the government will judge useful in the higher interests of the nation.” The law provided limitation on where they could be sent-although all ways and means of its appli cation are not yet published. It may be applied also to foreigners who reside in France. Every Frenchman-and probably every male foreigner-subject to the compulsory labor law must prove to the government that he is en gaged in work “useful to the country’s needs.’' Or be liable to assignment to other work. Every employer is forbidden to hire any workers unless they are provided him by the government labor service and with government authorization which also is needed for firing or quitting. The law contained a clause to the effect that “every head of an enterprise will be obligated to con form to the instructions which he may receive from competent sec retaries of state, notably for con stituting crews of workmen.” Infractions of the law will be punishable with sentences up to five years imprisonment and a 30,000 gold franc fine, which will (Continued on P»ie Tbrec; Col. t) Guards Moresby Lieut. Gen. S. F. Rowell one time deputy chief of the Austral ian. general staff, commands the Allied troops defending the vital base of Port Moresby, New Guinea. NEW TYPE BOMBER USED BY GERMANS Sub - Stratosphere Planes Hit England From 40, 000 Foot Altitude LONDON, Sept. 13—OR—German sub-stratosphere ■ bombers, equip ped with supercharged diesel mo tors, have made several daylight attacks on Great Britain recently, it was disclosed yesterday. The first such bombings of Britain were made from altitudes of nearly 40,000 feet by modified Junkers 86-P’s fitted with experi mental pressure cabins. This type of plane is the third ne.w weapon in the German air arsenal for daylight forays against strongly defended British ports and cities. The others are the four-motored 177 which carries eight tons of bombs—equalling the capacity of Britain’s biggest machines, and the bomb-carrying Focke-Wolf 190’s, the special function of which is to speed over coastal targets at low altitudes and get away fast before the speedy British (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) GANNETT WANTS MORE WAR NEWS Newspaper Publisher Says Americans Can Stand Bad News NEW YORK. Sept.. 13 —<.T)— Frank E. Gannett, publisher of the Gannett Newspapers, said today “the American people have shown that they can stand bad news" and urged that the Government give them the “whole truth” in stead of what he termed partial reports. He said in his script for a Blue Network radio forum broadcast that the people could depend on finding the truth in official state ments but “what we cannot depend upon is that it is the whole truth.” “The American people," Gannett asserted, “will resent any attempt to influence them with propaganda. Outright propaganda has lost its punch. We have become condition ed to it. “The claims of the Nazis and the Japs do not frighten us. We laugh at their boasts. We just don’t believe anything the enemy says until it is verified. “I believe it is important that our confidence in our own official announcements be not similarly destroyed. "American morale was more en dangered by Congressman May’s remark that the war soon would (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) NAZIS MAKE NEW GAIN IN STALINGRAD AREA; VORONEZH UNDER FIRE Soviet Troops Give Lives To Stop German Tanks MOSCOW, Sept. 13—OP)—An epic story of the heroism of Russian soldiers who filled their pockets with hand gren ades and threw themselves under German tanks rolling toward Stalingrad stirred the capital today. Sixteen men, of whom fifteen are dead and one is dying, by acts of sacrifice held up an on slaught of 12 German tanks and drove two platoons of Ital ian infantry and a unit of Ger man automatic riflemen to cover, the Sunday papers re ported. The sixteen men, it was re ported, held a vital sector northwest of Stalingrad and repulsed a determined enemy attack from that direction. First they beat off Italian infantry which stormed the top of a hill. The Italians were replaced by German automatic riflemen who were subjected to a con centrated fire. The riflemen came almost to the Russian petitions and were stopped at last by a bayonet charge. Darkness brought a lull in operations, but at down 12 Ger man tanks rrjled into the'field to charge the stronghold. The little Russian force had no (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) Chinese Occupy Town Northeast Of Kinhwa; Siege Still Underway Chungking, China, Sept 13 —(/P)—The occupation of the Chekiang Providence town of Pukiang, 30 miles northeast of the provisional capital of Kin hwa, was reported today in Chinese dispatches from the front while the Chinese siege of Kinhwa continued without a let-up. The Central News Agency said that fighting now was in progress northeast of Pukiang. Meanwhile, the town of Ku fang, six miles west of Kinhwa, again changed hands, falling once more to the Chinese. A brief high command com munique reported minor action in Kwangtung Providence. It said the Chinese on September 1 attacked the Japanese at Tatin<? and Newakung, in the vicinity of Chaoan, which is 25 miles north of the port of Swatow, and killed a number of them. SOVIETMARJNES HIT IN BARENTS Sea - Borne Commando - Style Assault Strikes Nazis Rear Lines MOSCOW, Sept. 13 — (IP) —Com mando-style, sea-borne assault be hind the enemy’s far northern line was reported today from the Barents Sea by the Navy newspaper Red Fleet, which credited Russian mar ines with destroying 11 heavy guns, several mortars, two ammunition dumps and one food depot. Suggesting that the Barents coastal operation was more than a minor hit-and-run attack, Red Fleet said that the assault was continu ing. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetzov, Russian Navy commissar, messaged congratulations to the units in volved. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Moscow to London said that the attackers also were credited with capture of 200 prisoners as well as enemy trenches. The operation seems to have been directed against German positions either in Finland or the nearby northeastern extremity of Norway. It assumes additional significance against the background of what the Germans have pictured as a great continuing air battle for position in that section along the Barents sea, part of the Arctic ocean. Although neither side has inter preted the situation in the far north, the jockeying for position suggested the possibility that the area might soon become a major theater of ac tion before winter forbids big opera tions. The far northern reaches of Nor way and Finland, as well as the adjacent Kola Bay and Rybachi Peninsula section of Russia have (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) U. S. PLANES SHOOT DOWN 9 JAPANESE Flying Fortress, Another Bomber Get Number Out Of Fifteen Attackers WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—1^—The impressive account of a “flying fortress” and another Army bomb er shooting down seven out of a swarm of 15 Japanese fighter planes which sought to swerve them from their target was re lated today by the War Depart ment. The feat, further evidence of the defensive power which these aircraft have been displaying on the fighting fronts, occurred last January in the Netherlands Inlies but was disclosed only with an nouncement of the award of a dis tinguished flying cross to the pilot of the flying fortress, Lieut. Col. Conrad F. Necrason of Coopers town, N. Y., for his “coolness and courage.” Necrason accompanied another bomber, its type not specified, in an attack on Japanese ships off the island Of Celebes, sinking a trans port. “While still over the target,” the announcement related, “the two bombers were attacked by 15 fighters, seven of which were shot down. The two bombers then pro ceeded to a refueling base.” But Necrason had two more brushes with the foe that day, “Lieut. Col Necrason had just finished servicing his ship,’’ the account continued, “when five enemy aircraft began straging their field. He took off in the face of the attack and when he returned later to see if he could be of as sistance to his comrades, found the other bomber had been des (Continued on Page Three; Col. f) MOREWAROUTPUT URGED BY NELSON WPB Chairman Says Huge Increase In Produc tion ‘Not Enough’ NEW YORK, Sept. 13—(iP)—De claring the 350 per cent increase in war production since Pearl Harbor was good, “but not good encfugh,” War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson to night urged everyone engaged in war work or essential services to establish labor-management com mittees. Speaking over the NBC network as a guest of the Labor Manage ment Committee of RCA-Victor at Camden, N. J., Nelson, in a pre pared address, told members of similar committees in 1.500 war plants throughout the nation: “It will be harder to increase production now than was six months ago. There are more phy sical difficulties to be overcome. Times are tougher. To are we. All of us. We will not be stopped.” He said that where labor and management in war plants have worked together through the com mittees disputes have been avert ed, each worker has been tdld how his individual task fits into the over-all production picture, unne cessary absence from jobs has been reduced, worker transporta tion problems have been met, metal scrap salvage drives launch ed and industrial accidents re duced. This co-operation between labor and management, Nelson con tinued. has given full sway to what he described as America’s secret weapon—“the initirtive and (Continued on Puce Three; Col, ti ^ ENEMY OCCUPIES TOWN Reds Admit Capture Of ‘Populated Place’ Near City NAZIS LOSE HEAVILY Launch Large Scale Attack On Don With Many Casualties MOSCOW, Monday, Sept. 14— (/P) —The Russian high command said today that re inforced Gerpian troops had made a further advance southwest o f beleaguered Stalingrad, the second Ger man gain announced in this sector in 24 hours. Using almost the same words as in last night’s com munique, the midnight bul letin said the Germans had occupied “a populated place” to the southwest of the Volga city. The new communique said, however, the Russians were now holding firm west of Stalingrad where during the day a German advance had been acknowledged. The Russians said the Ger mans had brought up fresh reserves and were attacking continuously in the south western sector. The Red army withdrew, the communique said, only after it had an nihilated a battalion of enemy infantry and disabled about 40 enemy tanks and destroy ed 24 motor vehicles carrying troops. Stubborn Fighting “West of Stalingrad stubborn fighting took place,” the communi que said. “The Germans launched a number of attacks, which were re (Continued on Pare Two; Col. ») STALINGRADENTRY CLAIMED BY NAZIS German High Command Declares Troops Enter Southern Part Of City BERLIN (From German Broad casts), Sept. 13 — VP) — German forces have entered the southern part of Stalingrad after storming and capturing additional fortifica tions, the high command an nounced today. Thq Germans said they tighten ed their siege lines about the Vol ga city despite the undiminished fury of Russian resistance and con tinuing Red Army relief attacks on the north, all of which were de clared frustrated. Inside Stalingrad, the Nazi war bulletin reported extensive new fires were set by non-stop day and night assaults of German airmen. Berlin military quarters said the (Continued on Page Three; Co). %) ■ ■ CD Needs Messengers: 246 (Boys and Girls) Duties: Carry messages to and from Control Center, war den’s posts, casualty stations when other communications fail. Training: General Course, Fire Defense A. First Aid 10 hours. Enlisted to date: 154. Quota: 400. Enlisted Friday Control room . 1 Air Raid Wardens . 5 Filter Center . X Chaplain . 2 Medical . 3 Messengers . 3 Miscellaneous . X Total . 16 —--*
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