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■ : ■ / • \ . ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ + Q" 4 saa 1 Mnntttm _—______ _. f(). 76—NO. 41 ------------. . -; MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. British Ready fo Continue Desert Battle _ e Axis Facing Stronger Foe With Many New Ameri can Reinforcements clash COMING SOON Air Activity Strong As United Nations Gather New Strength CAIRO, Oct. 11—UP)_The sixth and possibly most vital chapter of the Battle for North Africa, the inevitable clash between the forces of the United Nations and the Germans and Italians under Marshal Rommel, may well be entitled “American arms ver sus German arms.” In the next desert battle Axis troops will have more American weapons against them than in any previous en counter in Africa. At the same time the Axis will be opposed by more representa tives of the United Nations than at any other time in the past three years of desert warfare. building strength Today both sides are building up strength to break the deadlock aground which has persisted through the weeks since the Brit ish retreat from Libya to the Egyptian line anchored on El Ala mein. « American arms have arrived steadily at ports on the Red Sea where "they are unloaded, assem bled and sent out on the long trek over dusty roads and crowded railways to the frontline areas. Supplies as well as arms, marked “U.S.A.." have been pouring into the Middle East from factories on both American coasts as well as from Middle Western states. A great deal will be heard about these things after the first shots are fired and the enemy is aware of what he faces. But while fighting on the ground s at a standstill the battle continue15 in the air. Here again, American (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) -V ‘VICTORY TAX’ PASSAGE SEEN Senators Predict New Levy Will Win Final Con gressional Approval WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—(tfl—Fin al Congressional approval of a 5 per cent victory levy on the earn ■P?s of individuals above $624 year ly was forecast today by Senators' "ho will serve on a joint confer ence committee to compose Sen ate and House differences over the record-breaking new tax bill. The Victory Tax. written into the measure before the Senate passed p on a 77 to 0 vote Saturday, is the major revenue-raising amend ment among upwards of 200 added the bill since the House ori ginally passed the measure July Chairman George (D-Ga) of the Senate Finance Committee told re porters he believed the proposal, calculated to bring in between $3. 100,000.000 and $3,600,000,000 in Sross yearly collections, must stay ,a the measure was to produce anything like enough revenue to contribute substantially to war fin ancing. Concurring in this view, Demo cratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky . 'Continued on Page Three: Col. 6) Canteen Feeds Scrap Collectors Coffee and sinkers were in order for this group of workers who helped to gather scrap metal in Brooklyn, N. Y., during the borough’s scrap day. A Red Cross mobile canteen provided the food after the collectors had gathered the huge pile of metal in the background. Eighty-four million pounds of scrap was collected during the day and the figure was expected to reach 100,000, 000 pounds by the time the drive ended.—(Central Press) County Scrap Campaign Well Into Second Week --- With the newspaper-sponsored scrap metal drive well into its second week here, collections were near the million and a half pound mark last night, salvage heads reported. The street-to-street canvass of the city was finished Saturday with a haul of 37,770 pounds swell ing the total gathered up here since October 1 to 1.451,906 pounds. Beginning this morning the eight Army trucks, loaned to the drive by military authorities at Camp Davis, will begin to gather all the scrap metal reported by tele phone calls, W. A. Stewart, co chairman cf the salvage commit tee said. New sources of scrap are being sought, he said, while a list of scrap metal locations in the city discovered by the Wilmington Fire Department during Fire Preven tion Week, will be contacted soon. “The city and all out-lying dis tricts were combed for scrap Sat urday,” Mr. Stewart said, * and it is believed that very little, is left on the streets. What still remains will be picked up by the trucks as they are making the rounds to answer personal calls.” Persons having scrap, he said, are asked to call the Brigade Boys Club, phone 6367. Saturday’s haul of 37,700 pounds was made up of 27,230 pounds turn ed in by the Army trucks and 10,540 pounds collected by the Bri (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) --V Southport Man Builds Road For Children To Convey Scrap To Pile SOUTHPORT, Oct. 11—Giv ing the cannon and other bur ied iron of Battery Lamb to the Southport school children was not enough for Thompson McRackan, who owns the land on which the famous old Con federate defense point is lo cated. When the students went out to dig up cannon and hunt for other metal they found that Mr. McRackan had been out for the better part of a day with a big tractor and other machinery, building a road to make the battery more access able for getting out the iron. LAST LAP AHEAD IN SCRAP DRIVE Many States Throwing AH Effort Into Campaign To Get Metal NEW YORK. Oct. 11 —(ffl—If you have it, give it! This was the cry of the states of the nation as they plunged into the final seven days of the 21-day national metal scrap drive led by the nation’s newspapers. The drive started September 28, ends October 17. Western states had a definite lead but all states were crying upon every man, woman and child from coast to coast to help. And help was being given. Business houses from coast-to co a st were shutting down for a day or half-a-day so bosses and workers could get into the nation wide sweep to pick up old metal needed for the steel mills. The mills were going to con vert that old steel and iron junk into new steel to hurl at the Axis. Perhaps never had the serious ness of the war effort been brought home so clearly to the people everywhere, for in all comers of the country they were responding: Organized labor members were giving their time and efforts to get the scrap into the junk yards. They were driving trucks, wield ing acetylene torches, breaking the scrap into bits usable by the mills. Kansas, Utah and Oregon — on the basis of statistics compiled by the newspapers’ metal scrap drive committee—still led not so much lay the tonnage they had gathered as by average effort rep resented in that .tonnage by every man, woman and child in the re spective states. But, although the newspaper-led campaign so far has produced 918, 669 tons—or 1,837,338,000 pounds— the drive was continuing without abatement. When all the returns from all (he state' "’as in it was possible that states unheard of so far— because for some reason they had (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) Junking Of Unnecessary Autos For Metal Suggested To Solons Xuv YORK. Oct. 11—fiP)—Pro Pusals to reclaim the nation’s non e Mentis 1 automobiles for scrap • e*uj and pay their owners trade , allowances were advanced to ,ay by Dean Alfange, American abor Party candidate for gover r and member of the New York “ate salvage commission. 111 telegrams to Democratic ' gators James M. Mead and Rob v 1 ‘ ■ Wagner, of New York, and . senator Harry S. Truman (D ' chairman of a Senate com lee investigating the war ef , ’ Alfange urged the govern m.nt *° buy up cars laid up for 1. duration and compensate own o v,*lb war bonds. a step, he said, would pro rn:b.. :nd0U,000 tons of scrap im mcdiately. The purchasing under Alfange’s plan would be carried out by an “auto reclamation authority” with power to pay fair trade-ins based on standard used car valuations. This would be accompanied by a campaign to persuade owners to turn in their cars instead of put ting them in storage. “With a scrap shortage due again in six months,” Alfange said, "I believe that we should start now to collect a reserve.” He said Americans are more, than willing to sacrifice their cars, especially if gasoline and rubber shortages curtail their use, but that it would not be fair to ask for the cars without payment. “There are 2,510,000 automobiles in greater New York,” he said, “registration figures show a de cline of 12.2 per ent in the first five months of this year. That means more than 300,000 cars have been withdrawn from use. Unfor tunately they are not going to the scrap pile.” The candidate said these cars represented about 300,000 tons of scrap, and if projected against the number of motor cars in the na tion the rate indicated • 3,000,000 tons of scrap waiting to be tapped in the country at large. Payment in bonds, he said, would “provide a cushion of past-war purchasing power to stimulate busi ness, create employment, and ease the burden of rehabilitation of our fighting men,” after the war. W/es Turn /ibaul Into Mass Of Fire Many Flying Fortresses And Medium Bombers Smash Jap Base ENEMY RUNS AWAY Officers And Men Of Foe Flee To Hills When Attacks Begin SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct. 11—(JP)—Fly ing Fortresses in heavy force and medium bombers have turned the important Japan ese base at Rabaul in New Britain into a smouldering ruin in two successive as saults in which 100 tons of bombs were dropped while enemy officers and men scur ried to the safety of nearby hills. The attacks on early Fri day and Saturday mornings will have an important bear ing on the campaigns in the spinal Owen Stanley moun tains of New Guinea and in the Southern Solomons where the Japanese have been rein forcing their troops on Gua dalcanal for an assault to wrest from the U. S. Marines the airport they hold. Important Base Rabaul is the supply base for both Japanese encroachments, which in turn are menaces to the Australian mainland. Rabaul lies 700 miles northwest of Guadalcanal and 575 miles Trorn Port Moresby, the advanced Allied base in Southeast New Guinea. The crippling blows of the greatest Al lied bombing attacks ever made in the Southwest Pacific at Rabaul were believed today to have com plicated the Japanese supply and reinforcement problems in both theaters appreciably. The big planes were guided to Rabaul in the darkness of early Saturday by fires still smoulder ing from the attack of the night before. _ Major William Hipps of Lum ber City, Pa., was in one of the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) LOCALMANDIES AFTER ACCIDENT Bernhard J. Kuhlken, 76, Succumbs After Being Hit By Truck Bernhard J. Kuhlken, 76, died yesterday morning at 10 o’clock at the home of Bernhard Rathjen, 1019 South Sixth street, from in juries received when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver at the cor ner of Nixon and Sixth street about 8 o’clock Saturday night, police re ported last night. Mr. Kuhlken succumbed to “in ternal hemorrhage, shock and old age,” Dr. A. H. Elliot, who per formed a post mortem, said yes terday. The body has been remov ed to the Yopp Funeral Home. Coroner Asa Allen has scheduled an inquest for 3 o’clock this after noon. In jail on a charge of hit and run driving with injury resulting in death is Chauncey Sikes, negro, of Ivanhoe. Sikes, according to Chief of Po lice Charles H. Casteen Sunday, admitted running over a white man early Saturday night and said that he became frightened and left the scene. According to the police report, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA — Continued rather cool today. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By C.VS. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m„ yesterday: Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 66: 7:30 a. m. 62; 1:30 p. a. 64; 7:30 p. m. 60; maximum 65; minimum 58; mean 62; normal 67. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 61; 7:30 a. m. 90; 1:30 p. a. 84; 7:30 p. m. 85. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.15 inches; total since the first first of the month, 0.50 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From the Tide Tables published y V. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Lew Wilmington-11:20a. 5:52a. ll:31p. 8:32p. Masonboro Inlet-8:59a. 2:42a. 9:12p. 3:22p. Sunrise 6:15 a.: sunset 5:42p; moonrise 8:43a; moonset 7:50p. (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) j GERMANS SHIFT OFFENSIVE FROM STALINGRAD TOWARD SOUTH IN MOZDOK SECTOR ■ M. ...-_ DEFENSIVE VICTORY Situation Is Such As To Contradict Hitler’s Boast September 30 ENEMY PLANS UPSET War Has Not Gone Accord ing To Foe’s High Com mand War Plans By The Associated Press The German squeeze on Stalingrad has relented after 48 days o fsiege and there are signs of a great defensive vic tory for the defenders of that city. The situation now, at least, is such as to contradict Adolf Hitler’s boat of September 30 that “we shall take Stalin grad, you may depend on that.” It appeared that since Hit ler’s assertion there had been a fundamental change in his high command’s tactics, and that the Berlin radio for once had made a dependable state ment of German military policy when it announced last Thursday that infantry and tank assaults on Stalingrad would cease to prevent “un necessary sacrifice of Ger man blood.” Upset Timetable There no longer is any doubt that the tough detenders of the city had upset a German timetable, and that the war has not gone according to the high command schedule set up on June 28 when, after the fall of Savastopol and the occupation of the Kerch Peninsula, the German armies started down into the Cau casus. Stalingrad stood as a menace on the left flank of Germans who thought they were on the way to Baku, and the direct attack on the city started on August 25. Half a million men were assigned to the task of taking the town. They were reinforced by some hundreds of thousands more, coming on in waves as the days passed. The Rus* sians estimate they killed 200,000' of them. On September 15 the Germans said they had taken the main rail way station of the city and that the battle was in its “final phase.’’ The next day a Nazi spokesman said that a special announcement of great importance was awaited within 24 hours from the Fuehrer’s headquarters, and the German na tion confidently expected that Stal ingrad would be added to the long list of conquered cities. The world is still waiting for that special an nouncement. On September 17 the Russian com mand said that vicious fighting was (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) 5 aluedUps SUNK BY U-BOATS Navy Discloses Most Re cent Sinkings In West ern Atlantic Area BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Loss of only five Allied merchant men in Western Atlantic submarine forays was disclosed last week, but reports of increased U-boat activity between Trinidad and the Western African bulge appeared to presage new and more vicious Axis assaults against United Nations’ shipping. Secretary of the Navy Knox de clared last week that “the submar ines found this (Caribbean area) a letter hunting ground than the At lantic coast,” and U-boats now were “especially active below Trinidad.” Announcement from an Allied base in West Africa revealed that a few small, enemy undersea craft, deserting the United Nations’ war ship-patrolled North Atlantic, were (Continued on Page Three: Col. 4) NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, Phone 3311 before 9:00 a. m. and one will be sent to you by special messenger. Jeffers Gets Reclaimed Tire Smiling William Jeffers (left), U. S. rubber czar, is shown in Washington as he accepted a new tire, made entirely of reclaimed rubber. It was given to him by F. S. Carpenter, general manager of the U. S. Rubber Com pany in New York City. This is a phonephoto.—(Central Press). Churchill Remains Quiet j On Aid To Russia Query LONDON, Oct. 11— —Ask ed three questions paralleling those which Joseph Stalin an swered last Sunday in a let ter to Henry C. Cassidy, of the Associated Press Prime Minis ter Churchill stood pat today on previous statements on aid to Russia, saying that no further statement is called for at pre sent. The reply called particular attention to the Churchill statement in Commons last Tuesday in which he declined to discuss aid to Russia on the basis of the Stalin-to-Cassidy letter, hinting his reticence was based on a desire to avoid tip ping off the Germans in this “certainly significant” period as to the nature‘of coming op erations. On the basis of Stalin’s broad hints of dissatisfaction over Al lied help in his letter to Cas sidy, the Associated Press Lon don bureau wrote to Churchill, asking these parallel questions: 1. What place does the pos sibility of a second front oc (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) SMALL CORVETTES HIT FOUR U-BOATS Norwegian Ships Put Up Battle In Atlantic To Damage Axis Subs LONDON, Monday, Oct. 12—UP) —A quartet of little Norwegian Corvettes and a British destroyer that led them have seriously dam aged four Axis submarines and shelled several others in a 48-hour battle in the Atlantic, the British Admiralty announced early today. The U-boat “Wolf Pack” attack ed in relays of as many as seven at a time, by day and night. The Corvettes sighted submarines on the surface 18 times during the day and night battle. The Corvettes themselves delivered 33 attacks, it was said. The night battles were lighted by an eerie criss-cross of calcium flares, star shells and tracer bul iets. The destroyer Viscount went af ter the U-boats nine times and the Corvettes made several daring but (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) HANOVER BOMBED IN BRITISH RAID RAF Makes Big Foray Against Industrial Cities Of Nazis LONDON. Oct. 11. — — RAF bombers made daylight attacks on several places in Western Germany today, including the city of Han over, the Air Ministry announced tonight. Other planes made sweeps over the coastal region of Occupied France. Three fighting planes and two bombers failed to return from these expeditions, it was announced. The air ministry communique said: "Daylight attacks were made by aircraft of the bomber command to day at several places in Western Germany, including Hanover. Our fighters made sweeps over the St. Omer and Abbeville areas of oc cupied France. Three of our fighters and two bombers failed to return.” The Air Ministry News service re (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) LONDON, Oct. 11 —W—Four motored American “Battleships of the air, ’ which in Friday’s raid on Lille inflicted the heaviest de feat on the German air force since Dieppe, appear to have presented the Germans with the necessity of revising entirely their methods of defense. The fortresses and liberators flying in tight, bristling formations and aided by a new technique in the use of their 500-plane fighter escorts, were known or believed to have destroyed and damaged a total of 105 of the very best fighting planes Reichsmarshal Goe ring can pul into the air. This American victory ranked with the known destruction of 91 Nazi planes during the nine-hour Dieppe operation August 19, and was doubly significant in that only four of the American bombers were lost Friday while the Allies lost 98 planes in cooperation with the Dieppe landing. Considering the significance of this score today, Allied airmen wondered it Hitler would not have to revise his whole aerial strategy to try to stop the big bombers. The culminative effect of the two shattering defeats, piled on top of the day to day attrition of Western European air war, will drive the Fuehrer to force his aircraft manufacturers to a new pitch of activity and at the same time demand of his designers and strategists a quick solution of the problem presented by the thirteen 50 caliber guns of the fortress and FAIL TO CAPTURE CITY Fighting Around Steel Cen ter Confined To Ar tillery Activity FIVE HEAVY ATTACKS Nazis Strike Hard At Cau casus In Effort To Take Grozny MOSCOW, Monday, Oct. 12 —W—The Germans appear ed today to have shifted their main attack to the Mozdok area, deep in the Caucasus, after failure in 48 days of fierce assaults against the city of Stalingrad. The Soviet midnight com munique said the fighting in side the shell-torn city was now confined to artillery ac tivity, and it referred also to fighting northwest of Stalin grad as being of “local signi ficance.” In the Mozdok area, how ever, there were five heavy attacks at one place, the com munique said. Increasing Evidence Seen There had been increasing evi dence of this shift for some days both in the German and Russian communiques. Yesterday’s Soviet communique mentioned large Ger man troop concentrations in the Mozdok area. (The German High Command spoke Sunday of Russian counter attacks alonk the Terek river, in the Mozdak sector, and said con centrated night bombing attacks were being made against Grozny, important oil center, which is the objective of the Mozdok drive.) The Soviet communique indicat (Continued on Pape Three; Col. 7) NAZI COLLAPSE NOW PREDICTED Belgian Official In Exile Declares Germany On Verge Of Fall LONDON, Oct. 11—((F)—Germany is on the verge of collapse on the military and home fronts, Antoine Delfosse, minister of justice and information of the Belgian govern ment in exile, declared in a state ment released early today. “We are in 1918,” Delfosse said. “The only point is how long her (Germany’s) final struggle will last.” The minister recently escaped to Britain from German-occupied Belgium. Delfosse said that Belgians have "the leisure to notice evident signs of slow German disintegrations which are the precursors of the final debacle. “The German soldier, formerly so smart and alert, is dull and dejected and complains openly about the unexpected length of the war, the end of which he cannot see . . . Germany is on the eve of collapse.” The minister said that except on the coast only “old and tiredV soldiers are in Belgium and their material is “much reduced in quantity and worn out.” Streams of civilians being eva cuated from Cologne and other (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) American Bombers Give Germans Reasons For Changing Defense ——---* / the armament of the liberators, it is generally believed. Flying in tight V's of three, the bombers are able to bring the con verging fire of their guns upon fighters attacking from any angle, and the resulting concentration of fire is such that no known fighter plane can match it. Reports of the crews returning from Lille indicated that the Ger man fighters—mainly Focke-wuli 190’s and Messerschmitt 109F’s, the best the Nazis have—tried every conceivable maneuver in an effort to get close enough to fire effective bursts from their 20- milli meter cannon. Gunners said the Nazis peeled off from their formations, not singly, but in twos and threes, and (Continued on Pace Three; Col. t)
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