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Served By Leased Wire 01 The __ ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 I RPMPMRPR ott Mnrntng l^f&r | psdblb;taathr pfrlLMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. | --- iTiiimnnTnnmanimint .Ill.Mi. m ZSiSiKSHmiWa The Brooklyn Baseball Club announc ed that anyone bringing ten or ipore pounds ot scrap metal to their ball park w ould be given a ticket to see Dem Bums play, and this is what happened. Policemen are shown piling up 65 tons of scrap metal as 4,658 fans waited to be admitted to Ebbets Field. The salvage offer is good for the rest of the season. (Central Press) tion Preparing For Campaign To Collect All Available Metal m SUPPLIES DECLARED BETTER me Improvement Seen In Abundance Of Metal Used By Steel Mills CHICAGO. Sept. 23.— UP) —Some Movement in the supply of scrap Ml for the mills of the United to Steel corporation was report i today by officials of th organ jjtjon. President Benjamin Fairiess term ite situation "more comfortable” bribed the outlook as “more table,” and predicted the salv es corporation set up by the gov mmtnt would bring in “a heap core scrap.” Chairman Irving S. Olds stated the nation’s newspapers lire doing a “swell job” in their ampaign to collect scrap needed m vat production. TViev expounded their views at a press conference while they were here for the first meeting of U. S. Steel's board of directors ever held outside Yew York and for an in IContinued on Page Two; Col. 3) 36 AWSSPOTTERS GIVEN ARMBANDS Get Official Insignia For Completion Of Course For Defense Duty Thirty-six aircraft spotters in the were presented official arm "mds last night at 6 o’clock at the feervation post atop the Cape ■~ar hotel following their comple i °f 25 hours of service as plane spotters. Thief Observer . H. Vowell pre ryted the bands. Fifty-five were 'dieduled to be given out but ly Titers were absent, following the presentation, Sec Td Lieutenant Albert L. Shands of 'f local information-filter center 'Continued on Page Three: Col. 3) WEATHER FORECAST /'ORTH CAROLINA—Littie change - temperature today. (Eastern standard time* ,Ry I . S. Weather Bureau) ti£'°!!0,ogicaI data f°r *hc 24 hours * 7fBO P- m. yesterday: j.. Temperature m- 67; 7:30 p. m. 64: 1:30 p. m. k - B- m- 72; maximum 81; minim r I ",eaa 70; normal 72. Humidity m. 66 7:30 a. m. 72; 1:30 p. m. P. m. 57. Total , Precipitation i.gg • ior the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. liontk,’ tota l since the first of the 1 ■ T77 inches, tf. Tides For Today ■ S r tlle Tide Tables published by °ast and Geodetic Survey). 'i’min . High Low m‘ngton - 9:27a. 4:03a. i5Sn., 9:51p. 4:28p. sonboro inlet_ 7:lla. 1:02a. Sunn. „ 7'38p. l:22p. ■27-. c' 6:02a: sunset 6:06p; moonrise ' moonset 3:33a. vinePe 1 ear river stage at Fayette reet *n Et’ednesday at 8 a. m., 9.05 ICo»tinueU on Page Two; Col. 4) --- J Need For Scrap Drummed Into Ears Of People As Opening Date Nears NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—(TP)—The crying need for metal was drum med into the ears of Americans in cities, farms and hamlets today, preparatory to the great nationwide collection campaign starting next week in most states. In many a community, it was put this bluntly: “Whose boy will die because you failed?’’—failed only to turn in that old lawn mower, or that old griddle. Schemes, prizes, ceremonies, were being rapidly devised to make America understand the supreme urgency of the problem. Newspaper executives, from coast to coast, were starting the collection drive rolling, in response to the re quest of Donald M. Nelson, war production chief, that the news papers take the lead. More than 1,600 daily newspapers have pledged their support. In dividual newspapers and State Press associations sc far — and the figure is rising—have put up $7,150 in War Bonds and cash for the best scrap collecting jobs in their area. These prices are in addition to (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) TIN CAN COLLECTION The new tin can collections campaign and the salvage for victory program in general will be discussed by James B. Vog ler, executive secretary of the State Salvage Committee, at a meeting here tonight in the as sembly room of the Tide Water company building at 8 o’clock. Wilmington is one of the few cities in the state to be desig nated a tin can collection cen ter, Alex Sprunt, chairman of the New Hanover Salvage com mittee said. BLACKOUT SLATED FOR WILMINGTON City Will Participate In State Wide Test Next Tuesday Night Wilmington will undergo its third blackout of the war next Tuesday night when it will join in a state wide trial test scheduled to take place between the hours of 7 and 12 p. m., it was announced yester day by Assistant Defense Com mander Franklin W. Bell. The dark-out will last approxi mately 45 minutes and will be ab solutely complete in every detail, it was said No one but the district air raid wardens throughout the state will know the exact time of the blackout, and they will not be notified only a few hours before hand. Local regulations and instruc tions governing the,test will be an nounced later, Mr. Bell said. Every city, town and area in the state has had a practice blackout so that the newly created organization might be tested. Wilmington is one of the largest of the 17 districts in the state and the procedure which will be (Continued on Pane Two; Col. 3) SCRAP COLLECTORS AVAILABLE HERE No Excuse For Residents Not Contributing Metal, Says Stewart v'j Wilmington residents have no ex cuse for not contributing their scrap metal to the local scrap drive, William Stewart, Co-chair man of the New Hanover county Salvage Committee, declared last night. All they need do is pick up their phone and call the Brigade Boys’ club, he explained, and a truck will call at their homes and pick up their contribution to the drive which may turn the tide for victory in this war. The service being conducted by the Boys’ Club includes going into the attics or cellars of the homes and digging the scrap out, he said. All types of heavy metals are needed in the drive, Mr. Stewart averred, including iron, copper, brass, lead, aluminum and steel. Tin cans have not been collected here thus far, he pointed out, but it is expected that tonight’s meet ing at which James B. Volgar, ex ecutive secretary of the State Salvage Committee, will -speak, will be the spearhead for a drive for that type of scrap here. The cooperation of Wilmington (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V Dosher Congratulates Camp Davis Army Band For Purchase Of Bonds Major General Frederic H. Smith, commanding general of Camp Davis has received the appreciation of Mr. Wilbur R. Dosher, chairman of the com mittee in charge of the Sep tember 20 Bond Sales Rally held at New Hanover High school for the contribution of the Camp Davis First Band and its director, Sgt. M. V. Smith. In his letter to General Smith, Mr. Dosher gave much credit to the band for the success of the rally which netted approxi mately $600,000 dollars. Mr. Dosher also lauded the members of the band for their own purchase of $600 worth of bonds. Wilmingtonian Describes Battle Of Solomon Isles (Editor’s note: The contents of the letter written Mr. Cun ningham, which follows, have been passed by the Naval Of fice of Censorship, and the en velope containing the letter bears its stamp). A graphic account of his part in the battle of the Solomon Islands i„ related in a letter received from Marine Staff Sergeant Howard Pierce, former Wilmingtonian, by Carl J. Cunningham of the local Sears, Roebuck store. Pierce, 27, worked in the hard ware department of the Sears, Roe STALINGRAD GARRISON HOLDING OUT AGAINST ATTACKS OF NAZI TROOPS; BRITISH TAKE MADAGASCAR CAPITAL - *-—___ FINALLY REACH GOAL Vichy French Radio In Tananarive Taken Over By English Officer GOVERNOR FLEES CITY Armand Annett Missing When Troops Arrive In Island Center LONDON, Sept. 23.—(ff)— The British reached their goal on Madagascar today by oc cupying the capital city of Tananarive after two weeks of operations from seized coastal points, but Governor Beneral Armand Annet ap parently had fled. Word of the occupation came first from the Vichy radio in Tananarive which was taken over dramatically in the middle of a French an nouncement by a voice which said: •'All Is Quiet” “British officer speaking. Brit ish troops entered Tananarive at 5 p. m. today. All is quiet. That is all.” Governor Annet, Parisian poli tician and staunch supporter of the Vichy regime, had asked then re jected British armistice terms midway in the British drive and said he would not stay to surren der at the inevitable fall of the capital His last words quoted on the Tananarive radio were of thanks to his troops for their "courageous (Continued on Pofe Two; Col. 1) FRE1GHTERBU1LT IN ONLY 10 DAYS Kaiser Company Sets New Record In Shipbuilding On West Coast .PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 23—(TP) —Ten days from keel-laying to launching, the 10,500-ton Liberty freighter Joseph N. Teal hit the water toda<y to rip an amazing 14 days from the previous speed rec ord for shipbuilding. Yet even greater speed was promised by Builder Henry J. Kaiser who watched the vessel slide gracefully into the outfitting basin of his Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. yards. “Do you think you ever will build a ship in less than 10 days?” an interviewer asked Kaiser. “Absolutely,” he replied, adding: •Nothing is impossible.” Once in the outfitting basin, workers poured aboard the Teal to begin another race for a record. The yard intends to ready her for the sea by Sunday. If it suc ceeds it will have delivered a major cargo ship in two weeks. The Teal, named for an Oregan industrial pioneer, was 87 per cent complete at launching compared to a war time average of 79 per cent. Her launching clipped two weeks from the previous record, set by Kaiser’s Richmond, Calif., yards, with the freighter John Fitch. The Fitch was launched in 24 days, de livered in 31. The old Oregon rec ord was 26 days for launching with the Pierre S. Du Pont and 31 days for delivery, also with the DuPont Addresssing yard workers and a few government, Maritime Com mission and other shipyard offi cials, Kaiser recalled: "Our orginal contract called for the delivery *of ships in about 150 days. The average in the first World War had been more than 200. Many experts shook their (Continued on Pa*e Two; Col. 3) buck store here for three years be fore he enlisted in the Marines in June. Immediately after his en listment he and his wife went to California from where he shortly sailed to the Pacific war zone. He escaped possible death during an air raid off the Solomons when his ship was attacked by long range bombers. His letter, dated August 11, reads: “Dear Carl: “This is just a short note about the Jap car that I promised you. I was lucky enough to survive, (Continued on P»fe Three: Col. 1) Soviet Supply Lines Threatened In North, South The foray of the gigantic German battleship Tirpitz (1) threatened the sea sup ply line to Russia in the north, while in the south, the Nazi drive on Stalingrad and the Caucasus (2) endangered the Volga-Caspian supply artery from the Middle East. While the Battle of Stallingrad maintains critical importance, Russian at tacks (arrows) were reported at Sinyavino, Rzhev and Voronezh. And even in Stal ingrad, the Soviets said they had forced the Germans to retreat from some districts of that Volga metropolis. Meanwhile, the neutral position of Sweden (A) has be come more precarious under German propaganda attacks, and Finland (B) was fish ing for a peace offer through its Washington minister. The lined area represents the territory held by the Germans. BRITISH RAIDERS SMASH AT BENGASI Mobile Armored. Column Speeds 500 Miles Across Desert To Strike CAIRO, Sept. 23— (JP> —Britist raiders sped undetected across trackless desert 10 days ago anc struck telling blows at Axis bases and communications all the way to Bengasi, 500 miles west of the Egyptian front, the Midde Eas1 command announced tonight. On the same night that a sea borne Commando expedition and parachutists landed at Tobruk and British warships bombarded the Axis Libyan coast farther east, the British raiders swooped on Ben gasi and Barce on the west side ot the Cyrenaican hump. They destroyed and damaged more than 30 Axis warplanes on the ground and inflicted heavy casualties on enemy troops and transport, while supporting planes of the British and American com mands shot down several German (Continued on Fife Two; Col. 4) _\T_ GAS CURTAILED FOR EAST COAST Drop In Supply Ordered To Allow Greater Fuel Oil Transport WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—CD Acting to avert a “disastrous” fuel oil shortage in New England, the Office of Petroleum Coordinator to day ordered an immediate increase in tank car shipments to that area and at the same time called for a cut in gasoline shipments to the whole eastern seaboard. Nine major oil companies were called upon to take these steps and also to divert fuel oil to New Eng land from other parts of the East, “as an emergency measure.” Government oil men said motor ists in the East probably would “feel the pinch” of reduced gasoline shipments after "about t\\-o weeks” if the reduction continued beyond that period. They said there probably was “nough gasoline in storage through (Continued en fafe Two; Cot. 1) Shipyards Are Largest Industry In State Now Wilmington is now the home of the largest industry in the state of North Carolina, it was revealed by competent sources yesterday, with approximately 15,000 persons employed at pre sent at the North Carolina Shipbuilding company. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco com pany at Winston-Salem employ ing 13,000 individuals at the latest check, formerly held the title of the state’s largest in dustry. Employment figures wei*e re vealed here yesterday by Storer P. Ware, secretary of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company. The plant was begun here early in 1941 with only a few hun dred employes, and during the past 18 months has rapidly ex panded to its present size, it was pointed out. In December of 1941, 3,500 persons were employed with a monthly payroll of $600,000. Workers of more than 50 trades (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) CONVOY ARRIVES IN RUSSIAN PORT Large Majority Of Ships Safe In Harbor; Nazi Claims Exaggerated LONDON, Sept. 23—(£)—1The Ad miralty announced today that the great majority4 of a convoy of United States, Russian and Brit ish merchantmen carrying large quantities of war materials had arrived in North Russian ports despite German bombs and tor pedoes unleashed in a running battle of many days along the northern convoy route. The Admiralty acknowledged that some ships were lost. But it said the claim of the German high command that 38 vessels were sunk and three others dam aged out of a 45-ship convoy was "more exaggerated than usual.” The Germans further announced with great fanfare last Sunday (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) WILLKIE CONFERS WITH RED PREMIER FDR Envoy And Stalin Meet For Discussion In Kremlin MOSCOW, Sept. 23—(JP)—Pre mier Joseph Stalin conferred with Wendell L. Willkie, President Roosevelt’s personal emissary, for two hours at the Kremlin tonight. Present at the meeting of the Soviet war leader and the special envoy was Vyacheslav Molotov. Soviet foreign commissar, who himself visited London and Wash ington last spring. The meeting climaxed Willkie's trip to the Russian capital. He arrived here Sunday from Kuiby shev and expressed the hope that he would see Stalin for a long, straightforward talk. “I understand he is a man who likes frankness and I like frank ness, too,’ Willkie said then. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Juvenile Delinquency Shows No Rise In City Juvenile delinquency in the city of Wilmington and New Hanover county has not increased in pro portion to the rate of expansion of the population here, during the past 18 months, J. R. Hollis, su perintendent of public welfare, pointed out yesterday. In reference to a statement Efia.de by J, Edgar Hoover, FBI \ director, Monday that juvenile de linquency is on the upswing throughout the nation, Mr. Hollis said that there is no evidence that such is the case in Wilmington. In the first nine months of this year, 311 city cases have been tried in the Juvenile Court, he (Continaed on Pate Two; CaL I) 4,000 GERMANS KILLED Knock Out 109 Enemy Tanks In Fierce Street Fighting In City RUSSIANS CLAIM GAINS Soviet Command Nowhere Acknowledges Any Re treat Before Axis MOSCOW, Thursday, Sept. 24—(/P)—The Russians an nounced officially early to day that Stalingrad’s valiant garrison had wiped out 4,000 more German shock troops and knocked out 109 Nazi tanks in fierce street fight ing into which the Volga riv er naval flotilla was pouring shellfire on the invaders. The midnight communi que said the Red Army had gained slightly northwest of the city, and nowhere did it acknowledge any retreat in side the battered city itself. Front dispatches said the Nazis were hurling 1,000 dive bombers a day against the city where the Red Army has converted every ruined build ing into a bristling fortress of anti-tank and machine gun nests. Send Tanks Into Battle The Germans also were sending hundreds of massed tanks into Stalingrad’s streets in an effort to achieve a September victory on the Volga, and the latest Russian communique claimed its most im pressive score yet against these steel hulks. Forty-four Nazi tanks were de stroyed or crippled in one sector, (Continued on Paje Two; Col. 6) frencTvarned TO L IfE COAST British Radio Declares Second Front Being Pre pared By Allies LONDON, Sept. 23. — fcB— The British radio urged Frenchmen again tonight to evacuate French coastal areas because a United Nations’ offensive aimed at the “annihilation of Hitlerite Ger many” is being prepared and will be launched without warning, the announcer said. “No one will be warned in ad vance of the date of attack or point at which it will take place.” the French-language broadcast said, “but when the moment comes to call for the cooperation of the French people as a whole will k"en our ’iromise to let you know in time." The BBC announcer emphasized that a series of such warnings had been given to the French in the last six months in order ”to prevent, as far as humanly pos sible the useless shedding of French blood.” “In the course of our military operations.” the message said. “U was necessary, and today it is more nerrssary than ever, to en visage the possibility of landings by British and Allied troops on French soil, of operations by our navy in French territorial waters, and attacks by the RAF on mili tary objectives in Occupied France. “An offensive of the United Na tions is being prepared. On the day when we can be assured of attaining our <r0al which is nothing less than total annihilation of Hit lerite Germany this offensive will be launched. “No one will be warned in ad vance of the date of the attack or the point at which it will take place, but when the moment comes to call for the cooperation of the French people as a whole we will keep our nromise to let you know in time.” NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, Phone 3311 before 9:00 a. m. and one will be sent to you by special messenger.