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Served By Leased Wire Oi The ASSOCIATED PRESS <+ LT 4 mSmZL* Itrtttttn Syitlt Stale and National News —— UNGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. » Captured German Gun Is Scrapped Mown is a o-incn German howitzer which W'as scrapped at the North Caro lina central prisoo m Raleigh this week. Left to right are J. B. Vogler, executive secretary of the State Salvage Committee; N. E. Edgerton, committee chairman; Paul Fenner, Raleigh commander of the American Legion; Warden Ralph McLean, of the State prison, and Governor J. M. Broughton. The big gun, captured during World War I, was thrown on the nation’s scrap heap by the Raleigh Post of the American Legion. County Leaps To Second Place In State Scrap Salvage Drive -_ __ Total Of 1,313,820 Pounds Collected Here Since October First New Hanover county leaped to second Diace in the newspaper sponsored scrap drive in the state yesterday with collections reach ing a new daily high of 792,039 pounds, it was reported by salvage drive heads. The county was topped in the state drive only by Durham which reportedly had collected a total of 1.554.905 pounds since the cam paign started October 1. Swelling the day’s total conside ably was the 739.200 pounds of scap turned in by the Atlantic Coast EXPRESS APPRECIATION The New Hanover Salvage committee expresses its thanks to Camp Davis authorities for cooperation in the local scrap metal drive. Eight Army trucks, released by camp offi cials, are now being used for the drive collections. Working on the trucks are men from the Quartermaster Detachment (colored) from the Service Detachment (colored) and Corporals Davis and Austin. They are deserving of praise for the fine job they are doing, the committee said. line railroad company, the greater part of which came out of the rail road's shops here. This figure which set the total for the week-old drive at 1,313, £20 pounds, is exclusive of collect ions in the rural district of the county by two WPA trucks Reports of their day’s haul were hot available. The street-to-street collection in the city yesterday was upped by the use of six additional army trucks released for the work by Carnp Davis authorities. W. A. Stewart, in charge of the operat ions said. The day’s work by eight trucks yielded 37,639 pounds while the Brigade Boys’ club, keeping up their record, turned in a total of 15,200 pounds. Included in the Brigade collection were 28 cannon hall, donated to the drive by the ^limington Light Infantry armory. Residents were again assured last night by Mr. Stewart not to be (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Victory Keys ■nmn-fTir-r - n iiiir iiiiiiiiiiiiipmmpibpiiwmmmmm—■ The oldest, and by far the lar gest, keys to he donated to the Keys to Victory campaign for scrap are these medieval giants dating from the 14th century, which Alfred I). McKelvy of New York turns over to the key drive which is collecting 100 million keys through the country. The metal is earmarked for the U. S. Navy. These keys, some of them from old German castles, are hand-made and weigh from two to six po,mids apiece. (Central Press) LOCAL BEACH HITS HIGH SCRAP MARK Between 12 And 15 Tons Already Salvaged At Wrightsville Resort Wrightsville Beach’s contribution to the scrap metal drive is between 12 and 15 tons, Town Clerk R. R. Benson, chairman of the resort’s salvage campaign, announced to day. Everything from kitchen utensils to automobiles have been piled on the scrap heap at the collection sta tion opposite Town Hall on May nick boulevard, said Mr. Benson. (Continned on rage Twelve; Col. 5) IL S. Airpower Hits Hard At Axis Ships In Africa WEATHER EflPFrAST WORTH CAROLINA — Slightly warmer today. t (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) ’Bv U. S. Weathen Bureau) -meteorological data for the 24 hours nding 7:3o p. m., yesterday: Temperature: 30 a. m. 58; 7:30 a. m. 57; 1:30 p. i. i\' ':30 p. m. 68; maximum 78; minimum mean 66; normal 68. . Humidity: %oI;30 a. m. 92; 7:30 a. m. 82; 1:30 p. m. 3o' 7:30 p. m. 57. T Precipitation: total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 In-, 0.00 inches; total since the first toe month 0.35 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: r From the Tide Tables published by ' s- Coast and Geodetic Survey): v... High Low Wilmington __ _ 9:05a. 3:48a I, 9:21p. 4:07p. 41a?onboro Inlet_ 6:43a. 12:35a. 6:57p. l:00p. aunnse 6:13a; sunset 5:46p; moonrise moonset 5;47p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette on Thursday, at 8 a. m., 9.42 (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—UP)—1The ^rowing destructive power of American air forces in Egypt was credited officially today with sink ing or badly damaging 37 Axis warships and other vessels since early June while harrassing the ports and supply lines of the Nazi desert army. Maj. - Gen. Russell L. Maxwell advised the War Department that damage from near misses of American bombs and other unob served destruction probably raised this total of the havoc wrought on the enemy. In a report summarized by Un dersecretary Robert P. Patterson, the American army commander in the Middle East said the airmen had loosed 3,161,000 pounds—about 1,580 tons—of bombs in the past 110 days. Of these 969,000 pounds were dropped during September alone. The American air fighters oper ated with Britain’s Royal Air Force in support of British forces (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) Kansas Is Leading Nation; Tops Utah And Ore gon Takes Third NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—W—Kansas tonight forged into the lead by hard work as the 24 top states in the national scrap metal sal vage drive led by the newspapers reported they had collected more than one billion pounds of iron and steel junk. The tonnage being gathered across the country mounted hour ly and the tremendous flow of old metal to the junk yards was il lustrated by figures released dur ing the day by the Newspapes’ NO COUNTY REPORT No report from the WPA scrap collection in the rural sections of New Hanover county was available last night. For that reason, the list of names for the Scrap Roll of Honor ■which occupies a box on page one is not published today. On another page of this morn ing’s Star will be found the list for previous days. United Scrap Metal Drive com mittee. At noon the committee announc ed Utah was in the lead and that up until that time total collection of 395,225 tons—790,450,000 pounds —had been reported by the top 24 states, but later in the day the committee had to revise the fig ures upward to 609,390 tons—1,218, 780,000 pounds—a per capita aver age for the group of 19.5 pounds. Most of the figures given the committee were estimates and were presented frankly as such by state salvage leaders, who said the junk metal was coming in so fast and to so many points that actual weights could not be obtained quickly. The drive strated Sep tember 28 and ends October 17 Kansas, by nightfall, had bump ed Utah out of first place, which that state had reached at noon, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) houseIpproves GUAYULE PLANTS Advised That Shrub Will Aid Rubber Situation; Expansion Allotted WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—(/P)—Ad vised that Guayule promised to ex ceed expectations as a wartime source of natural rubber, the House quickly voted today to expand plantings of this shrub from 75,000 to 500,000 acres. It approved a $19,000,000 appro priation for cultivation of Guayule by the Agriculture Department on plantations in California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. The Senate also must act on tlfe appropriation. While the House was acting, a •Senate Agriculture Subcommittee heard behind closed doors testimony from Major Wendell Dove of the Army on the possibility of getting i needed natural rubber from South America. Details of his testimony were not disclosed, but Chairman Gillette (D-Iowa) declared the group received “ample evidence of ample supplies.” The prospects for larger-than expected production of natural rub ber from the Guayule shrub were disclosed with publication by the House Appropriations committee of testimony from C. M. Granger, as 1 (Continued on Pace Twelve; Col. *1 Airmen /.lit At Japs In Solomons Task Force From Aircraft Carrier Smashes At Foe In Northern Sector HEAVY CRUISER IS HIT Four Other Ships Bombed, Many Planes Destroyed; No American Losses WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.— (A1)—An aircraft carrier task force, striking violently info the heart of Japan’s defense area in the North Solomon Islands, has damaged an en emy heavy cruiser and four other ships, destroyed eight aircraft and blasted an air field, the Navy announced to night. The operation, conducted in unfavorable weather, appar ently caught the Japanese completely by surprise at one of their most vulnerable points. It was carried through without the loss of a man or plane and without damage to any ship. In Shortland Area ‘A Navy communique, reporting the action, said that the ships at tacked were in the Shortland Is land area, just south of the Is land of Bougainville, which is the main Japanese base in the Solo mons. The airfield attacked was Kieta, on the northern coast of Bougainville, 45 miles north of Shortland. For several .weeks, the commu nique said, enemy ships had been observed concentrating in the Short land area. This was authoritatively interpreted to mean not that a great armada Wps massing there but that on frequent occasions large numbers of enemy vessels put in. These (Continued on Page Five; Cel. 4) U. S. MUST DECIDE ON FIGHTING MEN WPB Head Warns Nation It Must Choose Size Of Armed Services WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. —UP— A warning from WPB Chairman Don ald M. Nelson that the United States must soon decide how big a fighting force it can efficiently maintain brought the nation face to face tonight with the gigantic problem of how best to distribute its manpower among factory, field and fighting front. Although no steps have been tak en yet to slow down the growth of the Army and Navy, he said in response to questions at a press conference that there is an “out side limit” on their size. Of immediate importance, he said, is "the time element.” He indicated that he meant by this I that agreement must be reached on the speed with which the armed forces should be built up, so that they might not outrun the ability of the country’s war plants to supply them with weapons and equipment. “However, once the Army has been built up and armed, it will be a comparatively simple matter to kcop it furnished with an ade quate flow of replacement supplies and equipment,” he added. ' “There is constant discussion be tween the chiefs of staff, the man power organization, and ourselves on the time schedule under which (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 4) Marinels Beaten, Sta bbed, Kicked By Japs And Lives To Tell About It Editor’s Note: The follow ing account of action in the Solomon Islands, distributed by the Associated Press, was writ ten by a Marine Corps corre spondent in the combat zone. By SERGT RICHARD T. WRIGHT A U. S. OUTPOST SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Sep tember 12 — (Delayed) — Private First Class Eugene Oliver Moore, USMC, is living on borrowed time Sixty five Japs trapped him in his tank on Gavutu Island, ripped open the hatch, threw hand gren ades into it, and set it on fire. Smoke and fumes forced Moore out of the tank after the other crew members had been killed. The Japs grabbed him, knocked him down, kicked him, jabbed him with a pitchfork, knifed him, then pick ea him up and bounced him off the side of the tank. ‘‘I guess they thought I was dead,” Moore recalls. ‘‘I had quite a bit of blood on me, and was un conscious.” Private Moore, whose home is at 1115 Post street, San Francisco, Calif., at first was believed to have been killed in action. Rescued by his comrades and skillfully cared for by Navy doctors, he is very much alive today, after being eva cuated from the Solomons to this base with other Marine wounded He told his remarkable story from his cot in the mobile base hospital which the Navy has sta tioned here. One of the first to visit it was Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, who paid a visit to the hospital during a stop over on his tour of Pacific naval outposts. (While the fight at the tank was in. progress another Marine, Pri vate Kenneth Koon, was shooting at the Japs with his rifle from a position nearby. He was reported to have killed 31. This figure, if finally officially substantiated by the Marine Corps, will exceed in one respect the famous exploit of Alvin C. York, World War hero on the Western Front. York was credited with killing 20 Germans. York, however, in addition to the men he killed, captured 132. His achievement earned him several high decorations). “We were advancing up the heach in front of the infantry, ’ Moore told the writer. “They wfere (Continued on Pate Five; Col. 1) a >*/ NAZI TANKS PUSH THROUGH INTO STALINGRAD STREETS; GERMANSMA YRETREA TSOON PROPAGANDA ACTIVE Enemy Information Lays Foundation For Pos sible Withdrawal CLAIM GOAL IS WON Faint Hint Seen That Mili tary In Control De spite Hitler NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—(fl>) —The German propaganda machine laid a foundation to night for a possible retreat from Stalingrad, where the Red Army’s staunch defenses have consumed Nazi troops and machines by the thous ands for 45 days of flaming siege. ‘ The tight tor btalingrad has changed,” said a broad cast by DNB the official news agency, quoting “military quarters.” “The strategic objective at Stalingrad already has been achieved,” DNB continued. “It is no longer necessary to send German infantry and as sault engineers into battle. The finishing touches will now be entrusted to heavy artillery units and Stukas (dive bombers).” A Russian counteroffensive has been pressing heavily against the German left flank from the north or the steppes between the Volga and Don, and was even before Hitler’s speech of eight days ago when the German chancellor boasted unequivocally that Stalin grad would be captured—“you may rest assured.” The very fact that “military quarters” in Berlin were quoted as indicating that the siege of Stalin grad might be lifted was a faint indication that the military had taken over the situation, despite Hitler’s latest promise. The broadcast, as heard by the Associated Press listening post, continued: “It is pointed out that every where else on the Eastern front where local adjustments of great er extent are taking place, the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) -V SENATE VETOES SECURITY TAX Refuses To Levy On State And Municipal Future Bond Issues WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—UP)—The Senate, voting 52 to 34, refused to tax the income from future issues cf state and municipal securities today after an extended debate which stressed assertions that such an impost would violate state rights and produce insignificant revenues. In making its decision, the Sen ate for the first time in its con sideration of the new war-time tax bill disregarded the recommenda tion of its Finance committee. The vote, however, brought it to tne point of dicussing one of the bill’s major controversies, the committee’s proposal for a five per cent victory tax on all individ (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 6) Grew Declares Japanese FacingRuin-W inOrLose TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 8.—UP) —Japan faces sure ruin even if she should win the war, former ambassador Joseph C. Grew told a victory loan rally tonight. “When I say that Japan is ruined,’* explained the former ' envoy to Tokyo, “I offer no glib assurance of your triumph and ours in the cause of democracy and human progress. I mean only that, even if Japan were to win the war—which it surely will not—the Japanese people would face the ruin of their business and their social sys tem. “If they' were to win, they would be still as they are to day, enslaved by their own lead ers. The faltering steps which they have made toward consti tutionalism, toward h,umanitar ianism, would be undone. Pawns under a senseless but mighty militarism. The nation would turn toward a new age of dark ness blacker than any that they have known before.” He added that all this is small (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) NAZI SUBJUGATION OF DENMARK SEEN Evidence Is Accumulating That Danes Soon To Be Under German Rule LONDON, Oct. 8.—<.ZP)—Evidence was accumulating tonight that Ger. many is about to make Denmark a completely subjugated state. German-occupied for two years and a half, yet nominally self-gov erned and maintained as a show piece of Nazi influence at its “best,” Denmark was believed marked down now for forced Nazification for these purposes: 1.—Suppression of rising rebellion against so-called German benevo lence: 2. —Tight defense against Allied invasion; 3. —Crystallization of a “Germanic federation” project which is to be used for Nazi home propaganda this winter. It was reported that the Ger mans will insist that Denmark also declare war against ‘Russia, re-arm and hand over to the Germans con trol of what Danish ships remain in Danish waters. Across the Skagerrak in Norway, the Germans executed nine more patriots, making a three-day total of 34. The Oslo radio said the death sentence of a tenth person was commuted to 15 years at hard labor. The reason for the latest executions were not given. The Germans arrested 70 other Nonvegians, mostly youths, in the port of Molde, a fjord below Trond heim where the Germans have de clared martial law in an effort to stop sabotage on military projects. Many hundreds previously were ar rested. The Nazi pressure on Denmark was most critical. Efforts to obtain the consent of King Christian for the idea of a so-called Germanic confederation of Denmark, Norway and the Nether lands having failed, it was reported in a roundabout way that Hitler has summoned Herr Kanstein, the Gestapo chief for Norway, in or der to make him Reichscommission er ana impose tne iuu couaoorauon which the Nazi demand. Within the kingdom, Monday is likely to be a critical day. Then a new group of Danish Nazis is due to depart for the Russian front to fight for Germany. But recently returned puppet troops of this na ture have been treated with scorn by patriotic Danes, and the new contingent may be kept at home to help in Nazification of the king dom. The Copenhagen newspaper Poli tilcen has been saying that “all re sponsible Danes are against reck less action which might endanger the country,” and urging that the people avoid large gatherings which may easily lead to disturb ances.” From London meanwhile power (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) BRITISH REMAIN FIRM ON INDIA Repeat Determination To Deal With Problem On Original Basis LONDON, Oct. 8—(TP)—The gov ernment repeated its determination today to deal with the Indian prob lem only within the framework of the independence proposals made by Sir Stafford Cripps, and the House of Commons gave it support by a lopsided 360 to 17 vote. L. S. Amery, secretary for In dia, and Clement Attlee, Domin ions secretary, had led a debate on a bill to continue the life of the Indian government and he frankly told Parliament the Indian picture is still “dark and confused in parts with sporadic disturbances” daily, which already have resulted in 846 deaths and the wounding of 2,024. Of these, 60 killed and 648 wound ed were British soldiers, police or government employes. The House approval of the gov ernment’s firm stand came on de feating a motion of James Max ton, Independent Labor member, to sidetrack the bill. Few voices were raised in sup port of Maxton’s motion, the most influential was that of Arthur Greenwood, labor leader, who cri ticized Prime Minister Churchill’s earlier announcement that the Cripps proposals must stand un altered in their essentials. Amery promised that the prob lem provoked by Mohandas K. Gandi’s demands for immediate independence would be overcome and that Britain was pledged to see “India’s destiny directed by Indian hands free of all external control.” He dismissed, however, the idea of negotiating with Gandhi’s All India Congress party as long as (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 5) NAZI PRISONERS Y BE SHACKLED British Threaten To Give Germans In Custody Treatment In Kind LONDON, Oct. 8.—(iP)—The Brit ish threatened today to shackle a Nazi for every British prisoner the Germans put in chains ostensibly in retaliation for alleged, but denied and unproved, maltreatment of Nazis taken on the channel isle of Sark last Saturday night The Germans announced they had manacled their Dieppe prisoners— mostly Canadians—as scheduled at noon and the British War Office, noting that Berlin ignored a sug gestion to have the neutral Swiss mal-e an impartial investigation, de clared an equal number of Nazi prisoners would be treated in like manner beginning at noon Satur day—unless the Germans released the chained British prisoners. It was stressed here that the sup posedly offended power must init iate the request for an investiga tion by a neutral under terms of the 1929 Geneva convention pro viding for humane treatment of war prisoners. Unofficial British sources, not conceding any mistreatment of Ger man prisoners, pointed out also that the Geneva agreement did not deal with the question of binding pris oners temporarily as a safeguard during continuing action to prevent their return to the fighting. The British had stayed their shackling plans momentarily while awaiting official confirmation from the German high command to the effect that the binding of British prisoners had been carried out as (Continued on Face Twelve; Col. 4) IN FACTORY SUBURBS Russian Attack On Flank Above City Holds New ly Won Points SOME AREAS RUINED One Quarter Of Worker's Settlement Smashed By Foe's Fire MOSCOW, Friday, Oct. 9. —(fP)—German tanks and in fantry broke into two streets in a factory suburb of Stalin grad yesterday while the Red Army attacking the Nazi flank above the city held newly-won positions by beat ing off several small assaults. A midnight Soviet commu nique said 16 of the 50 Ger man tanks hurled against the Red lines in the battered northwestern outskirts of Stalingrad were destroyed and four battalions (about 2, 000 men) of infantry were wiped out. “Only in one place the en emy succeeded in occupying two streets of a populated place,” the communique said of this fight. Field dispatches said one quarter of the workers’ set tlement now was in ruins from German bombs, shells and mortar fire, but said the Red Army, thus far has held the Germans back from the Volga river banks and the heart of Stalingrad in a siege now entering its 46th day. Tear Gaps In Lines The Soviet dispatches said that Russian tanks had torn gaps in the German left flank above the city, forcing the Nazi command to divert elite Prussian troops to meet the threat. The late communique did not credit the Red Army, however, (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 2) NAVALAVIATiON FUNDS APPROVED House Passes $6,236,956,. 621 Appropriation For New Expansion WASHINGTON. OCT. 8.——A $6,236,956,625 appropriation meas ure, boosting this nation’s cost-of var bill to $220,000,000,000 was pass ed swiftly by the House today to ’inance a naval aviation expansion program and a variety of other war jorn projects. The new appropriations encount >red no opposition on the floor win ning final approval by a voice vote. Members of the House appropria lioins committee informed the House :hat the United States soon would (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 1 -V City And County Groups Attending Rate Parley Members of the City Council and bounty Board of Commissioiners will leave this morning for Ra eigh where they will present New Hanover county’s case for the re luction of industrial and residential ilectric and gas rates before the State Utilities Board, Mayor Har grove Bellamy said last night. One hundred per cent attendance ’rcan both bodies is expected at the conclave, he said. City Manager A. C. Nichols and Hity Attorney W. B. Campbell will Uso be present. The two groups will leave by tutomobiles for Raleigh at 7 o’clock :his morning. The hearing is sched jled for 11 o’clock. NOTICE! 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