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Served By Leased Wire Of The _ ASSOCIATED PRESS /jTfT 4* ^ RPMPMRFR aSScj iiiurmun s’ttur VOL^-—N0- 40- ~ ---- " " _ ^ - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. u { 1 Lb and BIG DOG TEAM UP IN SCRAP DRIVlJG A common sight in a residential section of Charlotte, N. C., these days is this V ?S >?egS Wln^,e" 2> her sister> Ann, 4, and their huge St. Bernard dog, Rascal, with a cart load of scrap metal for the united newspapers’ scrap cam paign. They are taking a broken-down lawn mower and other scrap to the collec tion pile. The girls are children of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Wiriden. “Rascal” is 18 months ola. CountyPer Capita Mark Jumps To 28.9Pounds In Scrap Drive Total Collection Now Stands At 1,414,136 Pounds In Area The per capita average for New Hanover county residents’ con tributing to the newspaper-spon sored scrap drive, now in its ninth cay. was boosted to 28.9 pounds yesterday with the collection of 100.316 pounds, salvage drive heads revealed. Donation of 37,550 pounds of .-.crap to the drive by Alexander Sprunt k Sons and 6,900 pounds by the Tide Water Power company helped raise the drive figure here to 1.414.136 pounds. During the day six Army trucks collected 25,420 pound^..in their street-to-sfreet combing of the city, W. A. Stewart reported, while the Brigade Boys club turned in 13,830 pounds for their day’s haul. Col lection in the city was down a little yesterday, Mr. Stewart pointed out, since no workers were assigned to help the drivers of the Army trucks load the scrap. A two-day report, Thursday and Friday, of scrap collection in the rural areas of the county was turn eb in last night by Mr. Cheek, 1VPA foreman, in charge of the two trucks making a farm-to-farm canvass. Their total was 16,616 pounds with 8.360 pounds collected on Thursday and 8,256 yesterday. Although the collection in the coun 'y is moving slowly, since only two trucks are being used, every bit of scrap will be picked up before the drive is over, Mr. Cheek said. We are pretty far along toward cleaning Wilmington of its scrap metal, especially in the business sections," Mr. Stewart said, last night. "There remain a lot of calls to be answered.” Residents really are digging down deep to contribute to the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) 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: Yesterday’s contributors: Tommy Landen_4,246 G. W. Trask_. 2,700 Electric Bottling Co,_1,200 G’ H. Holten_ 50 R. E. Owens_ 30 T- S. Jacobs_ 30 'Continued on Paje Five; Col. S) WEATHER _T FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA — Continued today. (eastern standard time) (Bv U. S. Weather Bureau) meteorological data for the 24 hours *■ lng 7:30 P- m., yesterday: . Temperature: 79.;V‘ m- 62: 7:30 a- m- 60* 1:30 p m s • '•■JO p. m. 71; maximum 80; minimum ’ mean 69; normal 68. Humidity: a. 58; 7:30 a. m. 68; 1:30 p. m. ' 7:30 P. m. 67. n Precipitation: p ,nla *or the 24 hours ending 7:30 of fu” °'00 inches; total since the first e month, 0.35 inches. (JV TIDES FOR TODAY: 1 c01S the Tide Tables published by ' Coast and Geodetic Survey): Kinston _ 4:“i" , 10:20p 4:53p ‘«onboro Inlet_ 7:27a 1:16a Mom =• 7:40p 1 ;4fip °°re s Inlet _ 7:32a l:21p few t. ■ 7:45p 1:Slp " Topsail Inlet _ 7:37a 1:26a Sums e’s) 7:50p 1 :'>6p (i 3i.. e 6:13a: sunset 5:45p; moonrise moonset 6:26p. lint11'’ Ftar r*v«r stage at Fayette e on Friday, at 8 a. m., 11.42 (eet. ^Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) 33RD LAUNCHING SET FOR TODAY S. S. David Stone To Be Christened At Local Yard This Morning The North Carolina Shipbuild ing Company’s 33rd Liberty freighter, the "David Stone,” will be launched this morning at 11 o’clock, company officials an nounced. Miss Harriet May Hancock, daughter of L. T. Hancock, fore man of the Pipe Shop, will chris ten the ship. Acting as her maids of honor will be Miss Mary Ann Jenkins and Miss Nanny Moore of Wilmington. The ship is named for an early governor of North Carolina. David Stone was born in Hope, N. C. on February 17, 1770, the son of Zedekiah Stone, member of the Provincial Congress at Hali fax, N. C. in 1776 and for many years a state senator. Stone -was graduated from Princeton university in 1788, stud led law and was admitted to the bar in 1790. He was a member of the legislature in 1791-94. Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1795-98, and a member of Congress in 1799-1801, having been chosen as a Democrat. In the latter year he was sent to the United States Senate, but he re signed in 1807 to become judge of the State Supreme Court. He was Governor of North Car olina in 1808-10, and in the two following years sat again in Con gress. In 1813 he was again sent to the United States Senate by a legislature whose majority sup ported the measures of President Madison and the war with Eng land, but opposirg these meas ures, he was censured by the Leg islature, and resigned the follow ing year. He died in Raleigh, October 7, 1818. WOMmN DEMAND AT FILTER CENTER Local AWS Room Needs Civilian Volunteers At Once Major Oscar C.' Tigner. regional commander of the Wilmington Air Defense Region, yesterday an nounced the urgent and immediate need for additional women volun teers at the Wilmington Information and Filter Center, and appealed to former volunteers now on the inactive rolls to return to duty a the earliest possible moment. “A considerable number of our volunteers have recently dropped out because of the erroneous im pression on the part of some that the WAACs are immediately tak ing over their work”, Major Tigner said, “and I want to stress that this is certainly not the case and will not be for many, many months to come. Women volunteers will continue to do the filtering and plot ting work and other AWS duties at Information and Filter Center and I want to earnestly appeal to the eligible women of Wilmington to volunteer and become . active in this work immediately. Those who have recently discontinued i (Continued on Page Five; Col. S) Local Citizens Throw South erners’ Trophys And Trinkets On Pile Wilmingtonians are putting their heart into the local “drive for scrap to fight the Jap,” literally as well as figuratively. One look at the rapidly mounting scrap pile at the junk yard here, official collection depot for the drive, gives evidence that New Hanover residents are not only do nating long discarded useless metal objects but knick-knacks and ornaments with sentimental value Silver-plated loving cups, prized possessions of a woman golfer whc won them as trophies iji the days before the war when golf tourna ments were important, have a place of honor on the pile. Bat tered and rusty toy automobiles and a broken air rifle, the joy oi some child’s heart, a pair of brass candlesticks that were the onlj ornaments on a mantle in a pio neer home ... a metal souvenir of a never-to-be-forgotten vacatior . . . These and a thousand other articles of little actual value, bui intrinsically priceless to the giver, signify the stuff of which Ameri cans are made. Strange bedfellows in the scrap pile are a metal life-boat, capacity cf 30 people, and a discarded fire extinguisher. Lying side by side are discarded automobile bodies while an automobile engine lies forlornly in the heap. Old radic sets of an early vintage, iron cool stoves, automobile rims, flat irons cooking utensils, are in the con glamerate pile that some day soor will be ammunition to smash the Axis. Homes have been ransacked from cellar to attic to furnish (Continued on Page Five; Col. 8) -v Carolina Beach Scrap Pile Steadily Mounti About 10 tons of scrap have been donated by residents of Carolina Beach for the scrap metal drive now in progress. Collection of the scrap is be ing handled by members of the Boy Scout troop while a town truck has been donated for use in hauling. Members of the street force are also lending a hand in the operations. Scouts will spend the greater portion of today picking up the donations which have been placed along the curbing throughout the vicinity. Preparations are underway to haul the scrap to the col lection depot in Wilmngton sometime next week. Federal Power Commission Rate Expert Declares Tide Water Profit Excess ive BY ALLEN J. GREEN (StarNews Staff Writer) RALEIGH, Oct. 9—After listen ing to two and one half hours of testimony and debate, the state utilities commission today moved to “take under consideration” the request of the Wilmington city council and New Hanover board of commissioners for action on present Tide Water Power com pany electric rates and to report to the joint bodies within the near future. Members of the New Hanover delegation, headed by Mayor Har grove Bellamy, expressed them selves as pleased with the results of the hearing. The greater part of the hearing was taken up by a presentation of the cast for lower rates by H. Zinder, a member oi^ the Federal Power commission’s staff of ana lysts and experts. Quoting the figures furnished the power commission by Tide Water, Zinder told members of the utili ties commission that Tide Water’s earnings had been excessive for the past four years and would con tinue to be excessive unless the company’s rates were reduced. The FPC expert declared that Tide Water admitted a million dol lar “write up” of the value of its electrical plant, as of December 31, 1941, over the original cost of the plant. Taking 6 per cent as a reason able amount of profit, Zinder said that the company’s 1941 net operat ing revenue for the electric utility department was $436,512 or $109,994 in excess of the 6 per cent margin of profit. He said the company’s 1941 de preciation charge of $243,668 was excessive by $50,000. “Figures of the first eight months of 1942 show that Tide Wa ter exceeds the depreciation figure charged during the same months in 1941 by $56,500. It is very doubt ful whether all or even a major portion of this increase is reason able,” Zinder declared. “Undoubtedly this represents pro vision for an anticipated increase in Federal income taxes,” the rate expert commented. “In a very re cent opinion, the Federal Powerj commission called attention to the unreasonableness of efforts made to pass on to utility consumers taxes which were presumably levied up on the company as its share of the burden of the country’s war ef fort.” Mayor Bellamy said that it was the first time in the history of the power commission that one of its experts had testified at a hear ing of the nature of the one today. Both Chairman Stanley Win borne, Commission Member Rob ert Grady Johnson and Commis sion Rate Expert Edgar Womble | defended Tide Water’s present! rates vigorously on the grounds (Continued on Face Five: Col. 4) 1 JEDS HOLDING FIRM A T STALINGRAD; ARMY SMASHING JAPANESE ONKISKA; U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES RAID LILLE MOVE TO REDUCE ISLAND TO RUIN 15 Tons Of Bombs Drop ped On Enemy Installa tion In Aleutians s 4TH RAID REPORTED Shipping In Harbor Hit; No Sign Of Enemy On Agattu, Attu WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.— (/P)—The Army air forces dropped 15 tons of bombs on the Japanese base at Kiska island last Tuesday, the Navy announced today, indicating that a systematic campaign had been undertaken to re duce to rubble and ruin this last enemy stronghold in the Aleutians. The Navy communique said that the Tuesday raid was carried out by the Army’s B-24 “Liberator” bombers es corted by P-39 “Airacobra” and P-38 “Lighting” fighter planes — all operating from the new advance air base in the Andreanoe Islands. Eight tons of bombs were drop ped on the enemy camp area, starting fires, and seven tons were released over the vicinity of the seaplane hangar with unannounced results. In addition, a cargo ship in the harbor was attacked and left afire and sinking, the radio station was damaged by strafing, and two sea planes were hit, one being de stroyed and the other damaged. This was the fourth big raid re ported on Kiska this month. The same land objectives were blasted with demolition and incendiary bombs on October 1 and 2 and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) FDR TAX APPEAL IS DISREGARDED Roosevelt Letter Asking Increase In Social Se curity Levy Ignored WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—UP—Dis regarding a direct appeal from President Roosevelt, the Senate voted 50 to 35 today to continue Social Security pay roll taxes at their present rate, instead of dou bling them on January 1, 1943, as originally planned. During the day, Mr. Roosevelt addressed a letter fo Chairman George (D.-Ga.) of the Senate Fi nance Committe saying the in crease—from one to two per cent each on employer and employe— was necessary. It is “not only in accord with the necessities of the Social Se curity system itself,” he said, “but at the -same time would contribute to the non-inflationary financing of the rapidly mounting war expendi tures.” Senator Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) led a successful fight against the proposal, asserting that Social Se curity funds already exceeded the legal minimum. He presented fig ures to show that a Social Securi ty tax of one per cent would yield (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) GETS PURPLE HEART According to a report from Aus tralia. Sergt. Julius Shellenberg of Brooklyn* N. ¥., was awarded the Purple Heart decoration for bravery. He was among volunteers who entered an ammunition dump to remove explosives while a grass fire threatened to set off 2,000 pound bombs. Sclielienberg, who came to the U. S. as a refugee five years ago, is in Army more than a year. (Central Press). ALLIES BATTER JAPS ON RABAUL Largest Force Of Bombers Hurled Against Foe Smash Vital Base GEX. Mac ARTHUR’S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Saturday, Oct. 10.—UP)—The largest force of Allied heavy bombers yet hurled against a Japanese base in the Southwest Pacific dumped 60 tons of explosives on Rabaul, New Brit ain, scoring direct hits on jetties, machine shops, supply dumps and other objectives, it was announced officially today. Not a single Allied plane was lost in this and other devastating raids throughout the island area above Australia, the communique said. On the ground Australian patrols pushed on into the ■ Owen Stanley mountain “gap” leading down the northern slopes to the Japanese base of Kokoda. Contact with Jap anese patrols for the first time in days was established in the Myola Templeton’s crossing area, the bul letin said, but no further details of that action were given. The huge aerial offensive appar ently was part of a master plan de signed to aid U. S. Marines battling the Japanese in the Solomons. General MacArthur’s airmen not only struck at Rabaul in their big gest night raid, but also dumped 10 tons of bombs on Lae in upper New Guinea where Japanese supply dumps on the water front were de stroyed amid debris that flew hun dreds of feet into the air. Buka, in the northern Solomons, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -v November 3 Election Registration Begins In Area This Morning Registration for the general election on November 3 will open in New Hanover county this morning. Persons who have moved four months prior to November 3 must get registrant's remov al certificates and go to their new precincts and register. The precincts will he open again on October 17 and 24. LARGEST BOMBING I FORAY BY ‘YANKS’ More Than 100 Big Bomb ers And 500 Plane Es cort Participate ONLY 4 PLANES LOST Germans Reported To Have Machine-Gunned Escaping Parachutists WITH THE U. S. BOMBER COMMAND IN ENGLAND, Oct. 9—(/P)—More than 100 American Fortress and Lib erator bombers with an escort of 500 Allied fighter planes made the greatest single day light aerial attack of the war on Hitler’s industrial and transport system today at Lille in occupied France. The raiders directed by Maj.-Gen. Carl Spaatz, com mander of the U. S. A. E. F. in the European theater, smashed factories and rail road yards against strong Nazi opposition and came home with only four of 600 planes missing New Planes Tested In operation beside the battle tested fortresses were the Ameri can Liberators, triumphantly pass ing their first tests in this battle zone. Both are four * motored planes. The raid was greater than any thing thrown by the Nazis against England in the dark days of the Battle of Britain, before the Luft waffe called off their daylight at tacks and concentrated on night raids. In numbers of offensive planes involved, today’s mass raid topped (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6> W1LLKIEC0MMENT REFUSED BY FDR President Declines To Dis cuss Envoy’s Remarks While On Tour WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.— Iff) — President Roosevelt refused today to discuss where or to what ex tent Wendell L. Willkie represented the White House on his tour of battle areas, saying that would be used politically, as it already had been treated last week. Without specifying who had dealt with the matter in a political way, the Chief Executive told a press conference that everything was all right with the Willkie tour, as far as he was concerned. He added he was assuming that Willkie, his 1940 Republican oppo nent for the presidency, was carry ing out extremely well just what he had asked him to do, and he thought that covered the whole thing. On August 21 Mr. Roosevelt said, in announcing the Willkie trip, that Willkie would tell the countries he visited the truth about the American war effort and the unity behind it. Willkie, the Chief Executive added, would carry let ters to officials of countries abroad, as well as to certain Amer icans. Mr. Roosevelt said, at that (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) --i N. Y. PORT GUARD Chief _ Boatswain’s Mate John Hogan is shown instructing Sea man James Schilling, in the use of the .43-calibre lteising sub machine gun on the rifle range at Peekskill, N. Y. Schilling is one of a gro.up of 1,800 men of the Port Security Force, an arm of the Coast Guard, receiving spe cial training at Camp Smith, Peekskill. This new force, under command of Capt. F. V. Louden, will be responsible for the protec tion of the Port of New York. U. S. MAY RELEASE RIGHTS IN CHINA Announces Willingness To Abolish Extra Territor ial System WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-To an embattled China on the eve of its national anniversary, the Unit ed States tonight announced i t s willingness to abolish promptly by treaty the system of extra-terri torial rights it has enjoyed in that country for nearly 100 years. Great Britain, the State Depart ment added, “shares this govern ment’s views and is taking similar action.” The United States’ decision was communicated to Chinese Ambas sador Wei Tao-Ming by Sumner Welles, acting Secretary of State. Welles told the ambassador that the United States plans to present a draft treaty to the Chinese gov ernment for its consideration in the near future. This treaty would provide “for the immediate relinquishment of this country’s extra - territorial rights in China, and for the settle ment of related quesions.” Abolition of the extra-territorial rights would have little immediate practical effect, in view of the fact that the most important areas in which those rights were en joyed now are occupied by Japa nese troops. From the point of view of China’s national aims, however, such vol untary relinquishment of century old rights would be of immense importance, not to speak of the lift it could be expected to give to the Chinese fighting morale. The first paragraph of the Kuo mintang Manifesto of 1924 pro claims China’s determination to free itself from the system of ex tra-territoriality in the following words: ’’All unequal treasties such as those providing for leased terri tories, extra-territorial privileges, foreign control of the customs tar iff, and exercise of political auth ority on Chinese territories which impairs the sovereignty of the Chi nese nation, should be abolished, and new treaties concluded on the basis of absolute equality and mu tual respect for sovereign rights.’’ -V Japanese Fail Again In Determined Effort To Get Wendel Willkie WITH THE CHINESE ARMY IN NORTH CHINA, Oct. 9—(/P)—The Japanese have failed again in what appears to have been a determined effort to get Wendell Willkie. Thirty-five Japanese planes bombed the Honan province city of Loyang yesterday and machine gunned a railway coach on a sid ing there which evidently they be lieved was the one carrying Presi dent Roosevelt’s personal represen tative on his tour of the North China battle zone. But Willkie wasn’t in it; it wasn’t even Willkie’s car, although it was painted the same blue as the special sleeper which had been used for part of the journey on the Lunghai line. Willdie did not learn of the at tack until he had finished his tour of the Chinese front lines on the south bank of the Yellow river where he missed enemy shelling by only a half hour. NAZIS NOW MOVE TOWARD CASPIAN Enemy Disclosed Advanc ing Across Kalmyck On Jo Astrakhan FOE’S LOSSES HEAVY Soviet Forces Kill Many Of Hitler’s Troops In City’s Outskirts MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct. 10—(A3')—Stalingrad’s defend ers were reported officially today to have smashed two German attempts to break through to the Volga east of the city, but dispatches said a new threat had developed in a Nazi advance across the arid Kalmyck region toward Astrankhan on the Caspian Sea. The midnight Russian com munique did not mention the Kalmyck area south of Stal ingrad after the government newspaper Izvestia told for the first time of a German penetration there. Nazi seiz ure of Astrakhan at the mouth of the Volga would spare the Germans further costly losses in frontal at tacks on Stalingrad and at the same time control that vital Russian communications artery. Efforts Are Crushed Both tank-supported German ef forts to crash through Stalingrad toward the Volga were crushed on the city’s outskirts, the communi que said. One German infantry company was wiped out, it added. One Red Army unit fighting in the same general area, a workers’ settlement in the northwestern outskirts, was reported to have killed 300 Germans in breaking out of a German ring which had been closed on it for several days. Northwest of Stalingrad where a Soviet relief offensive has sought to ease the pressure on Stalingrad, the Russians “fortified their occu pied positions and on separate sectors engaged in battles of local importance.” Thus, as Stalingred entered its (Continued on Page Two; Col. ») AXIS THREATENING ALLIED PRISONERS Controversy Over Treat ment Of Captives Be coming Major Issue LONDON, Oct, 9.—(TP)—Military ami propaganda spokesmen in both Berlin and Rome applied new threats today lo the unsavory nerve war which the Germans have begun over the treatment of prisoners of war, and the controversy widened to the point where it may affect the future well-being of hundreds of thousands of captives. The Germans, trading on the fact that they hold some 115,000 British prisoners as compared to 23,000 Germans in British hands, announc ed that 1,376 Britons had been shackled, noted the British decision to fetter a like number of Germans by noon Saturday, and said if that was done three times that number of British would be placed in bonds. The Italians broadcast charges, based on so-called captured British orders, that Commando forces which recently raided Tobruk had been in structed to kill all Italians in one sector. The Rome radio said the Italians would certainly take re prisals, but did not say what they would be. The Italians, unlike the Germans, are in a poor position to start “re prisals.” The British hold 262,000 (Continued on Page Two; Col. 9) NOTICE The Star-News Circula tion Department is open Sundays from 7 to 10 a. m. If you fail to receive your paper, phone 3311 before 10 and one will be sent to you by special messanger. After 10 o’clock, the de partment is closed.
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