[sirVtd By Leased Wire Of The ^ - *iHk” tlmmgtmt fMnnmtg ilar urnr' .—. '. —___ ^ - 38 1 ^___ ______ _ _ _ yOLJ^ —-----TWELVE PAGES WIL> ^TfTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. City Scrap Collection Total Jumps 324,440 potindsOn Wednesday 507,790 POUNDS TOTAL Contribution Of Local Ship yard Raises Pile To New Figure j2 POUNDS PER CAPITA Army To Release Only Two Trucks Today; More Urgently Needed The total of scrap metal contributed by New Hanover residents in the newspaper sponsored drive more than doubled itself yesterday with J°”ew high collection of 324, 440 pounds reported, salvage drive heads revealed. Figures for the drive, in wneress here since October [now stand at 507,790 pounds, the committee said. Included in the total is the 9758OO pounds of metal col lected since last Thursday by the North Carolina Shipbuild ing company here. Brigade Still Active In the street-to-street canvass m tl)e city yesterday army trucks col lected a loot of 26,760 pounds while ,he Brigade Boys club reported their day's work yielded 13,260 pounds of metal. In the county only 8,620, pounds was collected by the two WPA trucks, under the direction of Mr. Cheek, WPA foreman here, in the farm-to-farm canvass being made. High individual donor for the day was G. W. Trask who contributed 5.900 pounds of scrap swelling his total for the drive to 16.825 pounds. Per capita total for the county in the drive tops 12 pounds, it was estimated. , < It was announced last night that only two Army trucks will he avail able today for the city ' coverage and this is felt by salvage heads to (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) NEW OPA OFFICE SLATED FOR CITY field Rationing And Price Control Set-Up To Be Established Establishment of an OPA field rationing office in Wilmington was revealed yesterday by W. H. ,Hof ler, of Raleigh, state rationing of ficer. The proposed office will serve War Price and Rationing boards and the public in 10 or 15 South eastern North Carolina counties, he pointed out. Attached to the office will be a field rationing officer, price control officer, attorney and several inspec tors. Hofler made announcement of the tentative field rationing office while on a visit here to the New Hanover War Price and Rationing board. He declined to state if personnel is be ing selected for the Wilmington branch. Other offices are also slated to be established at Greenville. Ashe ville, Winston-Salem and Charlotte. Hofler described the work of the local war price and rationing board as functioning smoothly. "It is one of the most important boards in ’he state,” he said, "as its job is to service a defense ai'ea. The board is doing a good job.” The state rationing official called attention to the fact that willful 'iolation of rationing regulations have "purchased some persons a one-way trip to the federal fteni ’Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) WEATHER . FORECAST: >«’OWTH CAROLINA — Continued 1 cool today. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7;3o p. m., yesterday: Temperature: hr1;30 a. m. 59; 7:30 a. m. 55; 1:30 p. m. 'C 7:30 p. m. 67; maximum 77; minimum W; mean 65; normal 68. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 65; 7 :30 a. m. 83; 1:30 p. m. u°: 7:30 p. m. 65. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 0.00 inches; total since the first 01 the month, 0.35 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: 'From the Tide Tables published by s- Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 8:19a. 3:04a 8:38p. 3:19p. ^lasonboro nlet -- 6:00a. -a. 6:14p. 12:15p. Sunrise 6:12a; sunset 5:41p; mooni -e 4 29a; moonset 5:llp. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette Vllt 011 Wednesday, at 8 a. m., .45 feet. (Continued ou Pure Xwo; Col. fi) OREGON IN LEAD FOR SCRAP PILE Northwest State At Top So Far With 45.5 Lbs. Per Capita * ' (By The Associated Press) Oregon today took the lead from Pennsylvania in reported scrap metal collections to lead all states :n the national newspaper drive to collect iron and steel junk, the Newspapers’ National Committee reported. Collections in Oregon since open ing of the campaign September 28 —it ends October 17—were report ed at 25,000 tons, a per capita average of 45.5 pounds for every man, woman and child in the state. Pennsylvania was placed second in the day’s tabulation compiled by the committee which hourly is re ceiving reports showing the scrap collection from coast to coast is reaching great proportions. The Keystone State, with a total tonnage of 141,885, had a per capita collection of 28.6 pounds. Michigan was third with 15.2 pounds per capita and an aggregate of 40,000 tons. The other states’ collection — in the top ten — reported by the com mittee, first on a per capita basis in pounds and then by tonnage, were: Maryland: 13—11,843; Vir ginia: 10.5—14,000; Wisconsin: 9.6 —15,018; Missouri: 9—17,000; Idaho 7.6—2,000; Oklahoma: 6.9—7,706, West Virginia: 6.5—6,218. Massachusetts, according to the committee, had reported 5.5 pounds per capita with 12,000 tons The committee expected to re lease latest figures on Iowa later in the day but estimates so far from that state indicated it had collected 8,103 tons for an average of about 6 pounds per capita. SCRAP COLLECTION SCRAPS COLUMBUS, Ga.—Mr. and Mrs E. W. Harp made a contribution to the national scrap in memory of their son, an RCAF pilot reported lost over France. They contributed the motor from the first plane he had bought in his flying career which won him - (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Scrap Roll Of Honor Each day the Star-News will publish a roll of honor listing the names of those who have contributed in the scrap cam paign now in progress under its sponsorship here: G. W. Trask_ 5,900 Carl Watkins -1,545 L. C. McClammy__ 500 Mrs. William Sidbury ... 150 Mrs. O. E. Eldridge- 150 J. B. Buss_ 150 Margaret L. Cook- 125 (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Shipyard Contributes 275,800 Pounds Since Thursday To Salvage A total of 275,800 pounds of scrap metal collected by the North Carolina Shipbuilding company since October 1 was turned in yesterday to the New Hanover county scrap cam paign. Collection by the company has been intensified since the drive began here last Thurs day, officers said. Since its establishment, the shipyard has maintained a number of clean-up gangs whose job is to collect scrap metal daily and sort it. When a railroad car is filled, it is shipped to the steel mills. All scrap metal is sold at the prevailing price and shipped in accordance with directions from the War Production board. The program is in keep ing with instructions issued to the shipyard by the U. S. Maritime commission. They’re Aiding Sc* Jlfeip^aign r—— i / j&l ■ Ch * _ Many churches and religious buildings in New York City are being stripped voluntarily of uneeded tons of metal to help the nation’s >>scrap drive. Archbishop Nicholas (left), of the St. Nicholas Russian Cathedral, is pictured holding an iron fence that surrounds the church while Rev. Michael V. Maslov uses a jack to remove it from the ground. (Central Press) Latest Japanese Threat To Port Moresby Fails - — GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Oct. 7.—Iffi The latest Japanese threat to Port Moresby had collapsed tonight, with the invaders pushed back to the northeast downslope of the Owen Stanley range and steadily pursuing Australian advance for ces in firm control of the mountain pass. There was no indication where the Japanese would muster strength for a stand. Dispatches from the New Guinea battle zone said that since the initial stages of the repulse, when the invaders were turned back only 32 air-line miles from Port Moresby by frontal attack and flanking tactics, their rear guard resistance lightened until now the cautious advance of the Austral ians was unopposed. One of the mysteries of the Japa nese withdrawal was the finding of a number of enemy dead whose bodies bore no wounds, as though they had died of illness or star vation. There was no indication of ex tensive illness among the Japa nese, however, and the pace of their withdrawal suggested that while they might be on reduced rations, they still were able to move in fair order. A correspondent of the Mel bourne Herald said the Austral ians, who yesterday pushed on up the range beyond Kagi, within four miles, of the Port Moresby en trance to the gap, had advanced early today to within two miles of the far end of the pass—headed for the downslope toward Kokoda, the main Japanese inland base. Allied airplanes virtually ruled (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3> -V Willkie Speak? For Self On All Public Statements WITH THE UNITED STATES FORCES IN CHINA, Oct. 7—(^P)— Wendell L. Willkie traded informa tion with officers and men at an American Army base today after winding up his Chungking visit with a declaration that he was speaking for himself when he made statements such as his Moscow call for a second front. Replying to questions at a pres? conference, he said he had been commishioned by President Roose velt to do certain things and that in anything connected with them be was the President’s representa tive and acted accordingly. “But when I speak for myself,’' he added, “I’m Wendell Willkie and say what I damn please.” He said he was speaking as a private individual in all his public statements made so far on-his tour of 13 countries. _ _ FDR COMPLETES ECONOMY GROUP Appoints Six New Mem bers To Aid Byrnes On Wartime Finances WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.— UP> — With the appointment of two rep resentatives each from labor, agri culture and management, President ’Roosevelt completed today the mem bership of a board which will as sist .Tames F Byrnes in controlling the wartime economy of the nation. Byrnes announced the appoint ments at a White House press con ference. Immediately afterward he took the oath of office as director of economic stabilization. With a salary of $13,000, a fourth less than he made as an associated justice of the Supreme Court. Byrnes will draw as much pay as a cabinet member. He is expected to sit in on cabinet meetings. These were the additions to the Economic Stabilization Board: Labor representatives, Willian Green, president of the America! Federation of Labor, and Philii Murray, president of the CIO. Farm representatives, Presideni James G. Patton, of the Farmers Cooperative Union, and Edwarc O’Neal, president, American Farn Bureau Federation. Representing management, Eric A. Johnston, president of the Cham ber of Commerce of the Unitec States, and Ralph E. Flanders president, Jones & Lamson Machine company, Springfield, Vt. In an executive order putting into effect the new anti-inflatioi lavr, Mr. Roosevelt had ahead; placed on the board the Secretarie: of the Treasury, Agriculture, Com merce and Labor, the Federal Re serve Board chairman, the budge director, Price Administrator, anc War Labor Board chaii-man. One of the director’s first act: after taking his oath was to direc Secretary of Agriculture Wickard who had recommended the step, tc maintain the loan rate on the 194‘ corn and wheat crops at 85 percen of their parity prices, as of the beginning of the marketing year This was done to “prevent an in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -V Inspector Of N. C. Schooli Found Dead In Hotel Hen O. W. Hedrick, of Wilson, inspector for the State School Commission, was found dead in liis room at the Cape Fear TT „ 4_1 oKn.if K«9K n’r.lnftk Senate ApprovesNewTax On Corporation Incomes WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—OT—By an overwhelming vote, the Senate today approved a 40 per cent tax on corporation incomes above $50, 000 after rejecting, 75 to 9, a pro posal by Senator La Follette (P. Wis $ to increase that rate to 50 per cent. Then, in a day of rapid action, it voted to reduce the credit for dependent children and others from $400 to $300 and turned tc a discussion of the problem of tax ing income from state and mu nicipal income from state and mu empt from Federal assessments. Both votes on corporation rates found the Senate following the ad vice of its Finance Committee and disregarding the recommendations of the Treasury. The latter had recommended a rate of 55 per cent on corporation incomes over 550,000. By comparison, the House approved a rate of 45 per cent. The rates cited consisted of a normal tax of 24 per cent (un changed from the present law) plus surtaxes, but not including a 90 per cent tax on excess profits. In detail, the committee propos ed and the Senate today approved (Continued on Face Xwo; Col, d) yesterday afternoon. The body was discovered by J. K, Sum ner, clerk at the hotel. Mr, Hedrick died of “natural causes, probably a heart at tack,” Coroner Asa Allen, who investigated, said. He had ap parently been dead about eight hours or longer, Mr. Allen said, since rigor mortis had set in when he viewed the body late yesterday According to hotel authorities Mr. Hedrick had checked in late Tuesday afternoon and when he failed to appear all day Wednesday they investi gated. Mr. Hedrick, a native of Wil son, resided at 209 South Bur ton Street in that city. The body is now at Andrews Mortuary pending funeral ar rangements. Japan s Hold On Aleutians Now Weaker No Trace Of Foe Found On Attu Or Agattu; Are Still On Kiska UNDER HEAVY ATTACK Navy And Army Bombers Continue Smashing At Enemy In Area WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.— (A9)—Japan’s hold on Ameri ca’s Western Aleutian islands appeared tonight to be weak ening rapidly. The Navy announced there was no trace of the enemy on either Attu, the westernmost island and first seized by the Japs, or on nearby Agattu, where the enemy also had placed small forces. The Japs were still in pos session of Kiska island, their most important base of op erations in the area, but so far as was known that was the only island they held, and it was under repeated and heavy attack by air. Navy Cautious This information was given out in a Navy communique which cau tiously refrained from claiming that the enemy actually had with drawn from Attu and Agattu. From the announced fact that con siderable aerial reconaissance had failed to produce any sign of oc company “for several weeks” it seemed clear, however, that a withdrawal had been effected. Moreover, American bombers have now destroyed most of the buildings at Attu. Regarding Kis ka, the communique said that “at tacks by our aircraft continue” and reported specifically that on Monday Army Liberator bombers, witlr fighter escorts, dropped many demolition and incendiary bombs on the camp area, and scored hits on the seaplane hangar. Six enemy seaplane fighters which rose to the counter-attack were shot down at that time. The (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 2) -V Pacific War Council Reports Encouraging Outlook On Fighting WASHINGTON, Oct. 7—(£>)— Members of the Pacific War Council meeting today with President Roosevelt, reported that things were relatively quiet in the Pacific and that the outlook was encouraging. Leighton McCarthy, the Can adian minister, put it this way: “Things are stationary and very encouraging.” He said nothing very drama tic was occurring, and added he thought the situation was encouraging from all angles. He said that applied to the Solomon Islands, and he thought also to Port Moresby and Aleutian areas. WLB ir is HIKE ON CERT IN WAGES Board Okehs Increases Be tween September 15 And October 3 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.— W-The War Labor Board today affirm ed all its: last wages increases and gave provisional approval tc I any voluntary wage raises betweer September 15 and October 3, thus ’ clearing the way to start frorr scratch as of Monday under the President’s nw anti-inflation order The order enlarged the Board’s jurisdiction to include labor dis putes in all industries. The number of cases which now will come before the board for settlemenl could not be estimated immediate ly and wages, generally speaking as of September 15, with provi sions for the correction of inequi ties. The board issued three orders ir its first action since the Presi dent’s executive order of Saturday The ruling of approving all in creases put into effect prior to Oc tober 3 reserved the right for th< board to order discontinuance o such increase which it later finds to be inconsistent with the polic: of the executive order or any pol icy formulated by former Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes economic stabilization director. Chairman William H. Davis o the board said that it would make no formal request to be notifiee (Continued on Fate Two; Col. 5) RED ARMY CONTINUES PUSH AGAINST NAZIS IN STALINGRAD ZONE UNITED STA' ES WARNS FRANCE Tell People To Leave Ger man Production Centers; Bombings Are Near LONDON, Oct. 7.—UP)—The Brit ish radio today carried an American warning to the French people to vacate areas- producing for Germany or be bombed, while the potency of the flying fortresses was hailed in in exemplary way in the House of Commons and with forthright fear in Tokyo. The Tokyo fears as heard by Brit ish listeners in India were expressed by a Japanese naval spokesman who told his people by radio that the United States is building long-range flying fortresses which could spring on Japan from the Aleutians and Midway Island. He said these great planes would have a range of 10,000 miles, that America was assembling weapons in “astronomical quantity, and that the war is just beginning.” Of the American warning to France, the BBC’s French service explained that it had originated in the United States shortwave sta tions broadcasting as “America call ing Europe” and that it had been recorded in London and rebroadcast twice in French and twice in Ger man. In Washington, Acting. Secretary of State Sumner Welles said that factories in Germany were legiti mate targets for American bombers and that the warning was in line with the United States government’s wish to spare innocent Frenchmen. The warnings of stepped-up Amer ican operations came in the wake of another bombing of Germany by the RAF’s heavy night bombers, striking at Hitler’s strained trans port facilities at Osnabrueck in the fourth raid on the Reich so far this month. The subject of American flying fortresses came up in Commons when Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair, in giving a clear indica tion of the great number of planes constantly being thrown at the con tinent, announced the loss of 1,082 British bombers in the first nine months of this year in the Euro pean theater. The minister was asked why Brit ish bomber" losses were so high (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) frencTpeople WAY BACK U. S. If Recognition Of Vichy Withdrawn Solidarity Is Forecast WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—UP)— Walter Edge, former ambassador to France, asserted today that with drawal by the United States of rec ognition of the Vichy French “pup pet” government would solidify 95 per cent of the French people ce hind the United Nations. Edge, emphasizing in an inter view that he was speaking as a private citizen, said it was “unfor tunate that the government seems to feel it necessary to continue rec ognition” of the Vichy regime. With interest in this country cen tered in the Fighting French, he said, “it must be very discouraging to see their overlords recognized by this country.” Edge was Ambassador from 1929 to 1933 and returned to France an nually after that until the outbreak of war. During the first World War he was governor of New Jersey and was a United States Senator from 1919 to 1929. “There may be many things that warrant continued recognition that I know nothing about,” he said, but he added that only a small per (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 3) 40 German Planes Couldn’t Down Him Lieut. Charles Paine, 27-year old army flier from YVaycross, Ga., brought a U. S. Flying For tress, battered but intact, back to England after 40 German fight er planes attacked his big ship high over France and inflicted the following damage: Put two motors out of commission, riddled the fortress’ rudder, stabilizer and a wing; shot away half of the controls, and smashed the land ing gear. One member of the crew was wounded. NAZIS INCENSED AT BRITISH RAID Declares Commando Party Handcuffs Prisoners; Threaten Reprisals LONDON, Oct. 7—UP)—A ten man Commando raid last Satur day night on Sark, smallest of the German-occupied channel is lands, gave rise today to an ex change of nearly 800 sharp and hostile words in official British and German communiques as to whether the British are handcuff ing their prisoners. By all accounts it was a very small affair—just another of the little night operations which sel dom receive any publicity at all— with the 10 Commandos slipping ashore to get some information about how the Germans were treating the people on the island, and capturing five prisoners, four of whom were shot while getting away. But apparently the German high command saw something particu larly inhuman in putting hand cuffs on a man and was deter mined to raise the issue. It waxed indignant, threatened reprisals, and devoted 400 of the 650 words of its communique, which also told of the Battle of Stalingrad, to the raid and its re percussions. The Germans said there were 16 raiders who captured five prison ers, bound them in fetters and then shot and stabbed two dead and wounded a third. Then the communique quoted these orders issued by the high command: “One—From October 8 at noon all British officers and men cap tured at Dieppe will be fettered and this measure will remain in force until the British War Office proves that it intends in the fu ture to issue true statements re (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Norwegian Terror Reign Under Nazis Continuing LONDON, Oct. 7.—Iff)—Adolf Hit ler’s executioners took the lives of 15 more persons today at Trond heim, Norway, the Oslo radio an nounced, as Nazi administrators bore down with a reign of terror ■ in ruthless determination to mold the country into “new order” sub servience. Along with 10 lawyers, editors, a ship owner and other prominent citizens who were executed yes terday, the total thus was brought . to 25 as the result of a state of ■ emergency imposed upon Trond ■ heim and a coastal strip of 400 miles. Two others today were sentenced to 10 years at hard labor, while one of a total of 18 brought be fore a court martial was acquitted, the radio said. All were charged vaguely with “criminal offenses.” A thorough checkup of everyone living in the area of the state of emergency was started by the Ges tapo which broadcast orders for persons normally living in the dis trict but now residing elsewhere to register at the nearest police “They seem to have come down and haphazardly picked out prom inent citizens and shot them as a form of intimidation of the popu (Continued on Fate Three; Col. i) ALL POSITIONS HELD Timoshenko’s Relief Drive Rips Into Hundreds Of ‘Tank Forts’ CITY BATTLE RAGING Inside Walls Of Steel Me tropolis Russians Hold Against Foe MOSCOW, Thursday, Oct. 8.—(/P)—The Red Army con tinued its drive against the German left flank northwest of Stalingrad yesterday and held all positions inside the battle-scarred city against the huge mass of men and tanks the Germans have thrown into the battle, the Soviet midnight communi que said today. Earlier reports said Mar shal Timoshenko’s relief of fensive northwest of Stalin grad had ripped into a line of mndreds ot Nazi tank torts ind overrun a stronghold, wiping out 1,200 Rumanian ;roops. The communique’s reference to ;his action said simply that “north west of Stalingrad our troops have seen conducting operations for the improvement of their positions.” Street Battle Continues Inside the rubble-strewn city, the oattle raged on fiercely, but the Soviet communique indicated the tied Army had not withdrawn at any point. “All attacks on enemy tanks and infantry have been repelleid with heavy losses,” it said. “Our troops are holding their positions.” During this fighting, it was stat ed officially, the Russians killed about 500 Germans and destroyed 19 tanks. (In London the British news agency Reuters quoted an Italian radio report as saying Russian forces attacking the German flank above Stalingrad had thrown pon toon bridges across the Don and sent troops to the west bank of that stream). In the Mozdok area, in the Cau casus, the Russians retired to new positions at one point after a fierce engagement. At another point, the communique said, 12 German tanks managed to penttrate to the rear of a Soviet detachment, but 11 of the tanks were put out of (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) POST-WARTRIAL MAY FACE HITLER Roosevelt Declares Those Responsbile For War Must Be Punished WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. —Iff) A post-war trial of Adolf Hitler for high crimes against humanity was apparently foreshadowed today when President Roosevelt said the terms of United Nations victory would call for punishment “ring leadeis” responsible for “organ ized murder” and other “atroci ties.” Without mentioning Hitler by name, the President disclosed that the United Nations were already movii g to set up a commission to gather evidence for use at post war trials. Drawing a sharp line between Axis leaders and the people under thpm, Mr. Roosevelt said In a statement: “It is not the intention of this government or of the governments government or of the governments associated with us to resort to mass reprisals. It is our intention that just and sure punishment shall bo mated out to the ringleaders respr nsible for the organized mur der of thousands of innocent per (Continued on Pare Two; Col. 6> NOTICE! 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