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Izz-— -WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942 FINAL EDITION ._ESTABLISHED 1867.
Everything Goes In N. C. Scrap Campaign
Governor and Mrs. J. Mel
ville Broughton, (top), do
their part in the all-out ef
fort to fill the nation’s steel
needs, by dumping a pile of
scrap metal on the steps of
the Governor’s mansion in
Raleigh to await the collec
tion truck. In the lower
photo is an old pre-World
War I cannon, donated by
the City Commissioners of
Sanford and the commis
sioners of Lee county. The
relic was built about 35
years ago.
30,000,000 School Children
To Aid Scrap Salvage Drive
™ _
Youngsters To Join Nation1
in Search Tor Metals
01 War
NEW YORK. Oct. 4.— (iP) —The
luick and the dead were called upon
today for a contribution to the metal
scrap drive but tomorrow a great
torrent of young energy joins the
search,
A weightlifter gave his weights
. . , Iron urns and benches and
railings from cemeteries were taken
up . . . John Brown’s “body,” or
rather a bronze statue of him, may
join the scrap heap.
These were all part of the surg
ing picture of America driving to
ward a clean sweep of the country
in the united newspapers scrap
metal drive for junk to feed the
mills that will turn out steel mus
cles of war: planes, guns, tanks,
ships.
But tomorrow, when their elders
enter the second week of the 21-day
coast-to-coast salvage campaign,
80,000,000 school schildren will lend
thejp eager talents to finding scrap.
While they look for it themselves
they will keep reminding their
families and neighbors, by spoken
and written ivord, to look and look
again lor the metal vitally needed.
Millions of children already have
keen searching for weeks but now
they go forth organized on a na
tional basis and with this urging
from President Roosevelt:
"Millions of young Americans.will
tarn the gratitude of every one
®£ our fighting men by helping to
Eat them the weapons they need—
How.”
Here are some of the latest doings
of the scrappy home front:
Charlotte, N. C.—Charles P. Kim
bl'°. a professional weightlifter, will
llse sandbags in future demonstra
tions of his strength. He turned his
"lights — boo pounds — into the
•crap pile.
Osawatomie, Kas. — The bronze
otatue of John Brown, pre-Civil war
firebrand, was the center of a warm
town argument over the question:
to scrap the statue or not to scrap
_ Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
TAVERN EXPLOSION
KILLS LOCAL MAN
N. R. Porter, Taxi Driver,
Succumbs From Bruns
wick Explosion
N. R. Porter, Wilmington taxi
driver, died at 12:10 o’clock this
morning as a result of burns suf
fered in an explosion of undeter
mined origin which wrecked a
room at the “Pines,” a tavern
about seven miles from the .city
in Brunswick county.
The blast happened yesterday
morning about 10:30 o’clock Sheriff
Dillon Gainey of Brunswick coun
ty revealed.
Porter was apparently alone in
the room at the time of the ex
plosion, Gainey said, and Mrs. Ag
nes Harvell, owner of the tavern,
was at the front of the establish
ment tending to a gasoline cus
tomer. Damage was estimated at
between $200 and $300.
Gainey revealed that due to cir
cumstances surrounding the ex
plosion, it was necessary to call
the FBI in Charlotte to investigate
the matter. Officials from that
office are expected to arrive early
this morning.
He declined to give any state
ment as to the cause of the blast
nor could any other details of the
DRIVER DIES
Stimson Branch, driver of the
oil tanker which collided with a
passenger bus near Lumberton
early Saturday morning with a
toll of 11 dead and 18 injured in
the resulting explosion and fire,
died in a Lumberton hospital at
12:30 Monday morning, accord
ing to a death message received
by the city police department.
The department was asked by
Robeson County Sheriff E. C.
Wade to deliver the death mes
sage to Branch’s sister her,
Mrs. John Henry Sutton of 405
Castle street._
U. S. Army Planes Better
Than Any Against Them I
Washington, oct. 4—(#)—1The
conclusion that United States
Army planes “are more than a
Watch for any of the planes that
8re now pitted against them” was
^Ported today by the House Mili
8ry Subcommittee on Aviation
er an investigation into the
Wanes' performance in actual
combat.
?n Jts formal report, the com
mittee declared that “the proof
?, fhe pudding is in the eating
cmeof,” and released official fig
res °n United States and enemy,
f one losses to demonstrate the |
superiority of American Army air
craft.
American Army planes "are con
stantly knocking down two to three
enemy planes for every one of
ours that is lost,” it said, citing
that the record for the 30-day
period, August 14 to September 14,
in destroying planes showed a ra
tio of 7.5 for Uncle Sam.
The inquiry was undertaken, in
the committee's own words, as a
result of recent "criticism of com
bat aircraf tof the Army Air
Forces, particularly fighters:” It
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Youngsters In City Doing
Bit To Aid In Scrap
Collection
For the past two months, young
sters ranging in age from 6 to
16 have been clambering out of a
dilapidated old truck which has a
big sign scrawled across it’s black
sides—“Brigades Boy’s Club Salv
age Campaign”—and have raced
across backyards and streets to
gather all the scrap metal or rub
ber they could find.
The efforts of the boys has net
ted an average above 10,000
pounds o fscrap daily for the past
two weeks and at'no time did they
drop below 5,000 pounds a day, W.
H. Stewart, director of the club
declares.
Long before any organized salv
age drive was started here, the
handful of boys, led by Stewart,
was making it's rounds to help Un
cle Sam’s war effort.
When the newspapers took over
last week and made the scrap col
lection their own battle, the Bri
gade Boy’s club donated its serv
ices to the collection end of the
business.
It’s a familiar sight in Wilming
ton now when a little fellow of
about 6 or 7 years comes strug
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
roosevelTbacks
JOHN J BENNETT
President Announces Vot
ing Trend For Self In
N. Y. Election
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — W) —
In a move apparently aimed at
solidifying Democratic ranks in
his home state against the threat
of Republican Thomas E. Dewey’s
bid, President Roosevelt came out
flatly for the first time today be
hind Attorney General John J. Ben
nett, who won the democratic
nomination for Governor of New
York with the support of James A.
Farley.
Mr. Roosevelt had backed Sena
tor James Mead to carry his par
ty’s standard in the November 3
election and since the Democratic
convention at Brooklyn nominated
Bennett instead he had brushed
aside inquiries at several press
conferences as to whether he
would support Bennett.
But today reporters were sum
moned to the White House to re
ceive from a uniformed guard a
mimeographed statement headed
“for the press, immediate re
lease,” which said:
“In reply to numerous inquiries
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Australians
Advancing In
New Guinea
Continue Drive Beyond
Efogi In Owen Stanley .
Mountains
ENEMY RETREATING
Have Not Contacted Main
Body Of Japanese In
Jungle
GEN. MacARTHUR’S
HEADQUARTERS, Austra
lia, Monday, Oct. 5.— (P) —
Hardhitting Australian bush
soldiers continued their ad
vance along the uphill trail of
the rugged Owen Stanley
mountains of New Guinea
yesterday to a point beyond
Efogi near the gap through
the mountain backbone, a
communique said today.
Just how far they advanced
was not stated, but it was an
nounced that had pushed be
yond Efogi, which was cap
tured the previous day, and
still were going ahead. Efogi
is 64 miles by the circuitous
jungle trail from the Allied
base at Port Moresby and
about seven miles from the
Owen Stanley gap.
Have Not Caught Japs
Apparently they hacl not yet
caught up with the main body of
the Japanese force, which the com
munictue indicated was retreating.
No details of the fighting were
given.
An indication that the Japanese
were in flight was contained in the
official statement that “Allied figh
ters strafed and harried key points
on the enemy’s line of retreat.”
There was a lull in Allied air
activity elsewhere over New Guinea,
but medium bombers made a night
raid on the airdrome at Buka, on
the extreme northern tip of the
Solomons, causing fires and explo
sions near the runway and in the
dispersal areas.
At least one enemy plane was
said to have been destroyed on the
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
rentaTceiOng
OR] R IS READY
OPA Chief Reveals Rule To
Be Issued Today; To
Cover Nation
WASHINGTON. Oct. 4—i®—Price
Administrator Leon Henderson an
nounced tonight that rents in every
area of the nation not now con
trolled would be stabilized at the
level of March 1, 194?. The order,
carrying out the President's anti
inflation directive, will be issued
tomorrow.
Henderson also announced that
existing regulations on rent control
would be amended to prevent
eviction of tenants through the
sale of property except in cases of
legitimate realty transactions or
where hardships would result to
the property-owner if he could not
obtain permission.
Henderson called upon all land
lords who have increased rents
since March 1 to reduce them to
the former level and said .that the
Office of Price Administration
would “establish machinery for en
forcement and administration of
this national extension of rent
regulations as rapidly as adminis
tratively feasible.”
In this connection Paul A. Porter,
deputy administrator in charge of
rents, said that the OPA would
need more funds than Congress
voted it in the mid-summer budget
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
WEATHER
FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA — Continued
mild today.
(EASTERN STANDARD TIME)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7 :30 p. m., yesterday :
Temperature:
1:30 a. fn. 59: 7:30 a. m. 57: 1:30 p.
77: 7:30 p. m. 67; maximum 78; minimum
55; mean 66; normal 69.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 78; 7:30 a. m. 83; 1:30 p. m.
42; 7:30 p. m. 63.
Precipitation:
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first
of the month. 0.00 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY:
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) :
High Low
Wilmington _ 5:46a. 12:44a.
6:13p. 12:55p.
Masonboro Inlet_ 3:40a. 9:50a.
3 :58p. 10 :25p.
Sunrise 6:10a; sunset 5:51p; moonrise
1:34a; moonset 3 :21p.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
Brothers Get DSC’s
Distinguished Flying Crosses
were awarded at a ceremony
aboard ship in the Pacific to Dal
las J. Bergeron (left) and his
brother Frederick for their part
in tile battle of Midway. They
are shown wearing the medals
when they arrived at Pearl Har
bor. The brothers, who come from
Freeport, Texas, were cited for
having “participated in bombing
and strafing of fleeing enemy
light forces as gunners of scout
planes.” This is an official U. S.
Navy photo.
CHINESE WORKERS
IMPRESS W1 E
FDR Envoy Tours War In
dustries ; Lunches with
Madame Chiang
CHUNGKING, Oct. 4—(#)—Wen
dell Willkie was “greatly impress
ed” by the efficiency of Chinese
war industries he visited here to
day after being honored at a tea
given him by Mdame Chiag kai
Shek at which he kissed a Chinese
girl war orphan delighting the
guests.
In his rapid tour of several of
Chungking’s war factories, moved
inland years ago when the Japa
nese seized the Chinese seaboard,
President Roosevelt’s fact-finding
envoy questioned managers and
workers.
“These industries are efficiently
operated and the employes are
skillful,” he said, “what is being
done is well done. A number of
social problems remain to be solv
ed, however, such as the high la
bor turnover,
“One of the principal problems
of Free China is the transforma
tion of an agricultural people to
an industrial basis.”
Madame Chiang kai-Shek had as
sembled a host of Chinese and for
eign notables for her tea at which
she described Willkie as “a very
distinguished personality so whole
heartedly and essentially human
that he is the very embodiment
of the warmth and spontaneity
which we so admire in Americans.
He is a living vibrant symbol of
the free nations.”
Willkie, Madame Chiang kai-Shek
(Continued on rage Two) Col. 4)
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Bulgarians Reported
In Doubt On Victory
By Germany In Fight
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 2—(De
layed)—Ml—A great many Bulgar
ians, some of them cabinet mem
besr, are beginning to wonder whe
ther Bulgaria has bet on the wrong
horse—Germany—in this war as
in the last, according to credita
ble but necessarily anonymous
travellers reaching Turkey from
that Balkan nation.
Some of these informants spent
the last decade in Bulgaria. They
said the only member of the Bul
garian cabinet who is a 100 per
cent believer in Germany is In
terior Minister Peter Gabrovsky.
Other ministers, they asserted,
are drawing away from Gabrovsky
as much as possible in order to
keep some safe ground under their
feet in case of a German defeat.
Doubt that Germany would win
the war flourishes in Bulgaria,
and thousands are in concentra
tion camps for expressing their
doubts too loudly, some of the tra
velers related.
Stalin Calls On Russiafs Aliys
Tc Fulfill Obligations On Time
Editor’s Note: Henry C. Cas
sidy, 32, of Boston, is c-hief of
the Associated Press bureau
at Moscow and has been
abroad for the (JP) in Paris,
London and Moscow since
1936. His first newspaper work
was on the Boston Traveler
and later he joined the New
Haven bureau of the Associat
ed Press and subsequently was
transferred to New York. He
has covered most of the Rus
sian-German war from Moscow
and Kuibyshev and is one of
the foreign reporters the Rus
REDS STILL HOLDING
AGAINST GERMANS IN
STALINGRAD FIGHTING
_
NEW ARMY FORMED
OF CHINESE VETS
Gen. Joseph Stilwell Welds
Fighting Group In
Eastern India
SOMEWHERE IN EASTERN
INDIA, Oct. 4— m —Leut.-Ge'n.
Joseph W. (“Uncle Joe”) Stilwell
has gathered together survivors of
Chinese divisions which trekked
through the mountainous Burmese
jungle into India and has organ
ized them into an elite corps with
which he hopes some day to help
drive the Japanese into the sea.
They are being trained by Amer
icans and are using American
equipment.
The number cannot be disclosed,
but it may be said for the discom
fiture of the Japanese that there
are enough to form the solid nu
cleus of a new striking force.
The existence of such a corps
has been a military secret until
now. The facts were released to
correspondents who were loaded in
to a plane and flown to this hilly
tiger country to see the Chinese in
action in their camp. The corre
spondents made the journey in the
plane of Brig. Gen. Clayton L. Bis
sell, commander of United States
Army Air Forces in India and
China. The machine was piloted
by Lieut. C. J. Anderson of At
lanta, Ga.
The three head men of the camp
all marched out of Burma with
Stilwell. They are Col. Frederick
McCabe of Chattanooga, Tenn..
commandant and head of the in
fantry section; Col. George W.
Sliney of Themopolis, Wyo., who is
head of the artillery section, and
Col. William H. Holcombe of
Washington, D. C., in charge of the
supply service.
On arrival reporters were shown
the neat brick buildings used to
house Italian war prisoners. Then
they got into reconnaissance cars
and set out to see how the Chinese
are progressing in what has be
come “Uncle Joe’s” pet project.
The first stop was at the hos
pital. This is an important institu
tion at the camp because several
i hundred must be nursed back to
health. Many became ill with
malaria and other afflictions after
the desperate march through the
jungle.
“They respond well to good
treatment and food,” said Maj. C.
B. Warrenburg, Phoenix, Ariz.,
who is in charge of the hospital.
“They can eat unbelievable
amounts of rice. The rice ration
is two pounds daily, plus mutton,
chicken and vegetables washed
down with their favorite drink —■
boiling hot water.”
INFLATONORDER
GETS COMPLAINTS
2 Southern Senators Ex
press Fear Of Farm Price
Level Change
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—C4V-The
terms of President Roosevelt’s
sweeping anti - inflation order
brought complaints from two
Southern Senators today that Con
gressional steps to uphold farm
price levels might be nullified.
Senators Bankhead (D-Ala) and
Russell (D-Ga) pointed with criti
cism to the stipulation in the
President’s executive order that
benefit payments be taken into ac
count. through “appropriate deduc
tions” from parity or comparable
prices, in setting agricultural price
ceilings.
Russell declared that this would
offset the gains hoped for as a re
sult of the legislative stipulation
that farm labor costs be given ap
propriate weight where necessary
in price-fixing. Bankhead told re
porters that the President’s move
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Size Doesn’t Count
_s......
Although Cadet Arthur G.
Moseley (left) of Jacksonville,
Fla., is small in size, his upper
class aviation cadet's authority is
supreme as he commands Calvin
B. Vance, Jr. (right) of Batesville,
Miss., an under-classman, to ‘‘rap
’em back” in a brace at the Army
Air Forces Pre-Flight School for
Pilots at, Maxwell Field, Ala. Of
ficials look on this practice of in
struction in military ways and
customs of the Air Forces by up
per-classmen as an effective man
ner of teaching incoming cadets
the art of soldiering.
GERMANS MAY EAT
AT EUROPE’S COST
| Promises _
riots Food Even At Ex
pense Of Other Lands
NEW YORK, Oct. 4—UP)—Reichs
rr.arshal Hermann Goering, Nazi
No. 2 and one of the best nourish
ed men in Germany, told his com
patriots today that they would be
fed this winter at the expense, if
necessary, of the rest of Europe.
Goering was blunt about it:
“In stilling the pangs of hunger
the German people come first. It
is my wish that the populations of
territories placed under our care
or conquered by us should not suf
fer hunger,” he said.
“But if difficulties of food supply
arise due to measures by the
enemy then all should know: if
there is hunger, it will be, in r\o
event, in Germany. From now on
it must be an unshakable policy
that German workmen and those
working in Germany be supplied
with food the best of all.”
Goering spoke for an hour and
forty-eight minutes in connection
with the annual harvest festival
and his morale-building address
indicated unmistakably that Ger
man military leaders entertain no
hope of finishing Russia quickly
and that the high command is re
signed to another defensive winter
in Russia, with Germany exposed
to air attack from the west.
The marshal asked all Germans
to stand up under British bombing
with patience, and said his own air
force is so busy in Russia that he
cannot get around immediately to
meeting the British challenge in
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
sians have allowed to visit the
front lines.
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Oct. 4—Joseph Stalin
described a second front as of first
rate importance today, called upon
Russia’s Allies to “fulfill their ob
ligations fully and on time’’ and
expressed confidence that Russia s
strength was equal to the attempt
ot Germany or any other aggres
sion to gain world domination.
The statement was contained in
a letter to this correspondent and
was Stalin’s only direct wartime
utterance thus far to the foreign
press.
His letter frankly answered three
questions on the second front, Al
lied aid and the Soviet power of
resistance. The complete text, in
its authorized translation, follows:
“Dear Mr. Cassidy:
“Owing to the pressure of work
and my consequent inability to
grant you an interview, I shall con
fine myself to a brief written an
swer to your questions.
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)
KEEPING INITIATIVE )
No Let-Up In Intensity Of
Battle For Big Steel
City
MANY NAZIS KILLED
Soviet Attacks Smash
Many Drives By Enemy
In Sector
MOSCOW. Monday, Oct. 5.
— (/P) —The Russians held
their ground stubbornly
against incessant German at
tacks in the battered city of
Stalingrad yesterday, a com
munique said today, and
maintained the initiative
northwest of the city, where
the Red army’s advances in
the past few days were said
to be threatening the entire
German position.
The communique neither
claimed advances for the
Soviet forces nor acknow
ledged withdrawals, but it ap
peared there was no let-up in
the intensity of the fighting
despite earlier Soviet dis
patches that the Germans
lacked reserves within the
city.
“The enemy, with infantry,
and tank forces is attacking
our positions incessantly,”
the communique said, speak
ing of the battle in the rub
ble-filled streets.
Nazis Attack Six limes
“Two battalions of German infan
try supported by tanks attacked the
position of one of our units six
times in one day. Our men support
ed by artillery repulsed all the Ger
man attacks and wiped out about
200 enemy officers and men.”
In another sector within the city
Soviet forces were said to have
smashed several blockhouses held
by the Germans and killed about
three companies of German in
fantry.
Referring to the fighting north
west of Stalingrad, the communique
said the Red army continued to con
duct “active operations,” the expres
sion used to indicate they held tha
initiative.
The main battle in this area ap
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SOLON DENOUNCES
NEW VICTORY TAX
Asserts Levy Would Disre
gard Person’s Abili
ty To Pay
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—lb—Sena
tor Danaher (R-Conn) today de
nounced the proposed live percent
levy on gross income contained in
the tax bill scheduled for Senate
would entirely disregard the indi
vidual’s capacity to pay.
The Senate is to take up the
measure Tuesday, after a formal
report from its finance committee
on the 567-page bill Monday or
Tuesday.
The House passed a bill nine
weeks ago providing for additional
revenue of about $6,291,300.00.
Since then the Senate committee
has overhauled the measure, listen
ing to a long list of witnesses in
cluding Treasury spokesmen, and
producing a bill to provide addition
al taxes estimated between seven
and eight billion dollars. Congres
sional action on the anti-inflation
legislation also contributed to the
delay in Senate consideration of
the tax measure.
Danaher, discussing with news
papermen the “victory tax’’ pro
vision of the bill, which was one
of the Senate committee’s additions
to the House measure, contended
that after educating a generation
of the American people to the
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