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Served By Leased Wire Of The ^ ^^ ilmuujfmt iBnnttng §>iar WII/# ^j£f N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. tUK urges Drafting Of 18-19 Year Olds In Address To U. S. ^_ YOUTH needed in war President Declares Young Men In Army Would Shorten Struggle MANPOWER RATIONING Calls For Workers To Stop Changing Jobs At Will During Crisis full text of President Roose velt's speech will be found on page 10. I WASHINGTON, Oct. 12_ (AP)— President Roosevelt, asserting that Allied strength was “on the upgrade” and the enemy growing nervous, tonight urged the drafting of 18 and 19-year-olds so that an army with the spirit and hardihood of youth may shorten the war with anni hilating new offensives. At the same time, the Pres ident called for the rationing of manpower. Workers must be kept from changing jobs at will, he said. Pirating of one employer’s labor by an other must be forbidden. The objective must be “the right numbers of people in the right places at the right time.” And h. -.cid oui a possibility that legislation of a drastic nature may be necessary to keep the farmer supplied with hands to harvest the ration’s food supplies. The Ameri can people, he added, will not "shrink” from such action, should it become necessary. ; The President was delivering his second radio report to the nation in five weeks. It was, generally speaking, an optimistic report of what he found on his recent tour of defense plants, Army posts and naval stations. Already, he said, America is getting ahead of the enemy in the battles of transporta tion and production. In addition there was another (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) WAR FINANCING PLANS DIVULGED Secretary Of Treasury To Pay For Conflict With Bond Issues WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 — — Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thau indicated today that he plans to finance the war, insofar as pos sible. with 8 to 10-year bonds, bearing 2 per cent interest, and that he believes the low interest rate can be maintained. He pointed out that the rate, as compared to the 3 -2 to 4 3-4 per cert paid on similar securities dur fflg the last war, represents po tential savings of “many millions of dollars.'" At his press conference today, Morgenthau announced that total subscriptions to last week’s $4, 000.000.000 cash offerings of Treas ury bonds and notes bearing 2 and '- Per cent, respectively, went " scant S100.000.000 over the offer. ,,ut be said he was “delighted “at the thing went over.’’ The taxpayers will be pleased. ■°0, He sadi. adding that neither ,,e Treasury nor the Federal Re sr"Ve System subscribed to any cf Ore issue. ^ The secretary said that about ' Percent of the total came from 'Continues on Page Three; Col. 7) WEATHER Vrn FORECAST:* * ■ *3®TH CAROLINA — Occasional n today, continued rather cool. •eastern standard time) i. , - t . S. Weather Bureau) enrtii °-ologicaI da‘a for the 24 hours a, ,g .:30 p, m., yesterday: 1.. . Temperature: 62*',la' m* 60: 7:30 a. m. 58; 1:30 p. m. *- ' ■ m. 60; maximum 64; minimum • mea" 60; normal 67. 1., „ Humidity: -,ty m. 87: 7 .30 a. m. 98; 1:30 p. m. ,36 p. m. 87. T„, , /TIDES FOR TODAY: P m „f„or tTie 24 hours ending 7:3‘) 01 n," 9,09 inches; total since the first i me month, 0.59 inches. Wile, High Low itoungton __ _ 6-36a MSSnnV, 12:llp 7:22p «onbor0 Inlet _ 9:51a 3:29a Moore. , 10:04p 4:12p te 4 Inlet _ 9 ;56a 3:34p KW t 10:09p 4:17p (time ,Dsai! In'ot _ 9:61a 3 o9a sl°fes' 10:19p 4:22p tin/1® 6:16a; sunset 5:41p; moonrise a- moonset 8:38p. vina|>e Fcar r>ver stage at Fayctte “n Monday at 8 a. m., 9.38 feet. 'Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) AMERICA UNITED SAYSPRESIDENT Chief Executive Tells Na tion That Country To Win Present War WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— (ff>) __ Salient statements from President Roosevelt's address tonight: The American people are united as never before in their determina tion to do a job and to do it well. We Americans and our Allies are going to win — and do not let any one tell you anything different. With every passing week the war increases in scope and inten sity. The strength of the United Nations is on the up-grade. The Axis leaders, on the otherhand, know now that they have already reached their full strength. We are getting ahead of our enemies in the bitter battle of transportation. We are getting ahead of our enemies in the battle of production. Within less than a year from now, there will probably be as many women as men working in our war production plants. We are learning to rationing ma terials; and we must now learn to ration manpower. The school authorities in all the states should work out plans to en able our High school students to take some time from their school year, and to use their summer vacations, to help farmers raise and harvest their crops, or to work in the war industries. I believe that it will be neces sary to lower the present minimutn age limit for Selective Service from twenty years down to eighteen. Many major decisions of strategy have been made. One of them re lates to the necessity of diverting enemy forces from Russia and China to other theatres of war by new offensives against Germany and Japan. The objective of today is clear and realistic. It is to destroy com pletely the military power of Ger many, Italy and Japan to such good purpose that their threat against us and all the other United Nations can not be revived a generation hence. •XT AMA CONVICTION TO BE REVIEWED Supreme Court Will Hear Case In Which Medical Group Convicted WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— <.P> — The Supreme Court agreed today to review the anti-trust law to con viction of the American Medical Association and the District of Co lumbia Medical Society with its question of whether the practice of medicine is a “trade” within the meaning of the Sherman act. At its first business session of the new term, the court also grant ed reviews to Enoch L. (Nucky) Johnson, former Atlantic City Re publican leader, serving a 10-year prison sentence on income tax charges, and to Thomas J. Pend ergast, former Kansas City Dem ocratic boss, and two associates in an alleged insurance fraud. The medical societies were con victed in May, 1941, of conspiracy to restrain trade in the District of Columbia, in violation of the Sherman act, through activities al legedly aimed at Group Health As sociation, Inc., a cooperative or ganization designed to procure low cost medical treatment for its members, mostly government em ployes. Among other acts, the so cieties were alleged to have sought (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Columbus’ Trip Likened To Nation’s War Effort (By the Associated Press) .. President Roosevelt in a Colum bus Day statement yesterday lik ened the courageous first voyage of the discoverer to the nation’s war objective in seeking “liberty for ourselves” and “liberation for others,” while other national and state leaders compared Columbus’ resoluteless to America’s deter mination to win the war. Columbus Day found America’s war factories toiling full tilt to grind out the implements of war, 1 while banks and financial ex changes closed in observance of the day. . The President in his statement said Columbus “found a great ex panse where new beginnings could be made,” and that in the wake of “his courageous and unprece dented voyage there came to the Americas the seeking people of many countries — people who sought liberty, democracy, religi ous tolerance, the fuller life.” “This was the American experi ment,” the President said. “A bold experiment and successful. Our (Continued on fwo; Col. 4) A BOY GIVES W&MJOG ——— .y <> - Though Paul Conners, 10-year-old Dorchester, Mass, lad, is smiling as he says goodbye to his pet Irish setter “Brownie,” neither boy nor dog is very happy about it. For Paul was giving up “Brownie” to the army “because he’d help the soldiers do guard duty and they’d like him.” Here they are parting, in an Army car at a Coast Ar tillery post on Savin Hill near Boston. . County Scrap Collection Nearing 3 Million Mark - + Collections in the newspaper sponsored scrap metal drive here neared the three million pound mark last night as the yesterday’s haul of 1,317,870 pounds boosted the total in the 12-days drive to 2,769,77 pounds, salvage commit tee heads revealed. The added tonnage, which set a record for a single days’ collec tion, raises New Hanover’s per capita rate to 57.4 pounds. Sizeable contributions from sev eral of the city’s larger business concerns account for the biggest part of the collection. Atlantic Coast Line railroad company announced the collection of 201,600 pounds since last Thurs day; U. S. Army Engineers, re porting for the first time, turned in 300,000 pounds of scrap; while the Murchison Building contribut ed 2,500 pounds of copper and brass to the drive. From October 7-11 the North Carolina Shipbuild ing compariy has collected 766,300 pounds, which was added to yes terday’s total. Eight Army trucks, answering phone call requests, picked up 30, 940 pounds of scrap in the city while the Brigade Boys’ club truck collected 9,735 pounds, W. A. Stewart, co-chairman of the sal vage committee, announced. Although no figures for the col lection of the WPA truck working in the rural area of the county were available for yesterday, 6, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) -V Schoolboy Uses Truck And Bicycle To Raise 8,170 Pounds Of Scrap Armed with only his bicycle, equipped with an ordinary car rier basket, Raymond Cordes, a student of^the eighth grade at the Isaac*Bear school, has collected singlehanded, 8,170 pounds of scrap metal here since the concentrated drive began October 1. Raymond, who lives at 101 North 23rd street, has turned in four collections to the drive, weighing, respectively, 4,250 pounds, 1,220 pounds and 1,250 pounds. All of the scrap with the ex ception of the first load was collected piecemeal in the bas ket of his bicycle. The 4,250 pound haul was garnered from old and aban doned machinery located in Brunswick county. The lad borrowed a truck for the day to pick up the metal. MILLION TON MARK PASSED IN DRIVE Nation’s Scrap Pile Steadi ly Mounting; More Is Urgently Needed NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Wl—Col lection of more than one million tons of scrap metal was reported today in the national salvage drive which, led by the newspapers, re ceived credit as an important fac tor in boosting the steel mills’ scheduled production this week to a record high. But even the great tonnage al ready reported as collected was considered by the newspapers’ united metal scrap drive commit tee as only part of the much vaster tonnage actually gathered but so far unreported. The top 24 states in the nation, by committee ranking, estimated they had salvaged at least 1,008, 045 tons — 2,016,090,000 pounds, in the two weeks since the 2-day drive started September 28, for an average of 29.4 pounds for every man, woman and child within their borders. But how far , those figure* prob ably were from the real total of scrap now in pile:, across the coun try was indicaied by Committe Chairman Richard W. Slocum who said: “The enthusiasm of Americans from coast to coast to pile up mountains of scrap metal is hard ly reflected in the figures so far available. While the committee so far has reports of more than a million tons gathered in the top 24 states, this probably represents (Continued on Page Two; Col. S> _V_ ITALIAN ALIENS GET NEW STATUS On October 19 Will No Longer Be Classed As * Alien Enemies NEW YORK, Oct. 12—I/P)—U. S. Attorney General Francis Biddle announced tonight that effective October 19 Italian aliens would no longer be classed as alien enemies, because, he said, “from that time on the exoneration which they have so well earned will be granted them.” “This does not mean that dan gerous or disloyal persons are no longer subject to apprehension or internment,” the attorney general said in a Columbus Day address at Carnegie Hall. “We still will take no chances. It does mean that the regulations applying, up to now, to alien enemies, no longer apply to Italian aliens. They will be free to participate in the war effort without the handicaps that have hampered them up to now.” Biddle said that his office had investigated thoroughly all Italians in the nation in an “unprecedented exercise of wartime vigilance.” “We find that out of a total of 600,000 persons, there has been cause to intern only 228, or fewer than one-twentieth of one per cent!” he said. Biddle said that he had recom (Continued on Page Six; Col. 8) FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ANEW IN STALINGRAD AFTER LULL; 3 AMERICAN CRUISERS LOST SUNK IN THE SOLOMONS Cruisers Quincy, Vincen nes And Astoria De stroyed By Japs HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE Action Takes Place During Night Of August Ninth While Attack On WASHINGTON, Oct 12.— (AP)—The loss of three heavy American cruisers in a fierce, night-time naval bat tle fought during the initial phase of the attack on the Solomon Islands was announc ed today by the Navy. Covering the landing of re inforcements in the Tulagi Guadalcanal area, the second night of the attack on the islands, the cruisers Quincy, Vincinnes and Astoria were outlined against the light of flares dropped by enemy planes and were sunk by a Japanese force of cruisers and destroyers. In ‘the same action, the night of August 8-9, the Aus tralian cruiser Canberra was hit by shells and torpedoes,, heavily damaged and set a fire. Abandoned during the night, she sank the morning of August 9, as already an nounced by the Australian government. Although a majority of the crews of the three cruisers was saved, a Navy communique reported, the loss of life was heavy, and the com mander of the Quincy, Capt. Samuel N. Moore, of Alexandria, Va., was one of those lost. Capt. F. L. Rief kohl, of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, commanding the Vincennes, and Capt. William G. Greenman, of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) aircrafTactive IN EGYPTS SKIES Growing Allied Might Play ing Big Part In Battle; Axis Ships Are Hit CAIRO, Oct. 2. —CP’— Growing Allied air might, fed by a steady flow of equipment labeled U. S. A., was reported today playing an even-larger part in the Battle of Egypt, with destructive new blows at Axis shipping in which two freighters, a schooner and two enemy destroyers were hit in the Eastern Mediterranean. United States heavy bombers scored the hits on two 8,000-ton freighters and left one of them apparently sinking yesterday off Crete where the Italians have been routing thei# supply shipping miles out of the way in an effort to keep within protection of Axis land-based planes. This time the land-based planes did them little good. Two Messer schmitt 110’s and a Junkers 88— one-third of the defense force which rose to guard the ships— were knocked from the air by the concentrated fire of the big bomb ers’ guns. After that, the crew of one of the bombers commented after ward, the rest of the Nazis kept their distance. British bombers, meanwhile, caught two enemy destroyers by night in the Eastern Mediterran ean. They reported scoring a di (Continued on Page Six; Col. 7) Engine Room Crew Tries To Save Ship In Battle AN EAST COAST PORT, Oct. 12. —CP)—The story of how the engine crew of an American merchantman strove vainly to save their ship from an attacking Axis submarine was revealed by the Navy today, simultaneously with an announce ment that 23 survivors of the sink ing had been landed here after spending three weeks adrift in the Atlantic. Twenty-two other survivors were landed at another port, leaving sev enteen men, including the skipper, Carl Stromgren and the comman der of the Navy gun crew, Lieut. (J. G.) Patrick J. Walsh of New York city, listed as dead or missing. Stromgren lost his life when a boat capsized. Walsh was killed by enemy shellfire while directing his gun crew from the bridge of the ship. The story of the engine crew who, with shrapnel bursting all around them and their communica tions to the bridge cut off, made an effort to outrun the raider was related by Charles Daniel Mackey of Manoa, Pa. “The chief engineer couldn’t get ^ (Continued on Fate Two; Col. 5) Churchill Says Allies Facing Somber Moment EDINBURGH, Scotland, Oct. 12—(JP)—Prime Minister Win ston Churchill gave Britain to day an assessment of two months’ Allied war effort which included the transport to these isles of the most numerous United States troops yet to ar rive, and declared the United Nations had reached a “stern and somber moment” in which they must balance wisdom with daring. That was his closest refer ence to the “second front” problem in a speech delivered in Edinburgh’s Ushel Hall. It recalled his careful statement to the House of Commons last week in which he said the war had entered a “significant” pe riod. Speaking from the same plat form, U. S. Ambassador John G. VVinant said “we must wait the soldier’s answer” to what lies ahead. The Prime Minister took especial pains to taught Adolf Hitler about the "dull, low, whining note of fear” apparent in the latest speeches of the German Fuehrer and his asso ciates, and he said: “It is apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and re morselessly approaching doom, and that he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glit ter of fleeting success.” (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) SENATORS DEFIED BY RUBBER CZAR Jeffers Refuses To Agree [To Farm Bloc Proposal On Tires For War WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.— <*) — Breathing defiance at a bloc of cotton-state senators, Rubber Di rector William M. Jeffers declared today that no “pressure group” was going to stop him from sub stituting rayon for cotton in heavy duty tires, if the Army wanted rayon. “I’m not going to put myself in a position where it is said of me that I lack the intelligence and guts to do a job,” the former president of the Union Pacific rail road1 told the Senate Agriculture Committee. “Too many haven’t done their job because they were afraid of some committe or pressure group. I’m not going to work on that basis.” It was the first time in years that a government official had “talked back” in such strong lan guage to a committee which had called him on the carpet. At one point Jeffers literally growled at Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith (D.-S. C.) and at another he challenged the Senators to try and stop him from taking a step he considered best for the war ef fort. At issue was a pending order for the expansion of rayon pro duction to replace cotton in the cords of truck tires. Jeffers said “the view of the chemists, and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) -V Camp Davis Soldier To Receive Coveted Award Of Heroism Courage has brought its re ward to Pvt. John Kulibaba, a soldier stationed at Camp Davis. This young soldier, a member of the 430th CA (AA) has just been notified that he is to re ceive the coveted Soldiers Medal for heroism displayed in rescu ing two young Winston-Salem girls at Kure’s beach last July 31. The Sharon, Massachusetts boy, who was inducted into the army only last April, is credit ed with having plunged into the water with utter disregard for his own safety, and bringing to shore Miss Pauline Chrysikos and Miss Juanita Chrysikos, both of Winston-Salem. The Soldier’s Medal, granted only in cases of extreme hero ism is to be forwarded to the command general, Army Ground Forces, Washington, D. C., for presentation to Kulibaba with ceremony. He will also be pre sented with an engarved certi ficate pertaining to the award. CHILE CONCERNED OVER RIOS PLANS Hope Expressed That Can cellation Of President’s Visit To U. S. Okeh _ SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 12. The Chilean press generally ex pressed hope today that the post ponement of President Juan An tonio Rios’ visit to the United States would not cause a midun derstanding betwen the two coun tries. The president’s trip was post poned last night as a result of a statement by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles in Boston last Thursday that two South Ameri can countries, presumably Chile, and Argentina, were being used as bases for Nazi agents. Rios, .following a protest by his government, sent a message to President Roosevelt last night say ing “the latest official information circulated in the United States about my country’s international policy has created an unpleasant atmosphere.” The newspaper La Hora, organ of the radical party of which Rios is a member, said “an error of opinion should not cause a mis understanding, nor give origin to bitterness and suspicions in t h e great American family.” El Murcurio, leading independ ent paper, said “the inciden' should not change the good rela tions which unite us and the Unit ed States.” It added that “al though President Rios has decided to postpone the visit, it was with the purpose of looking to the mo ment when there is not the slight est shadow which might obstruct (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) _-\r_ CARTRIDGE PLANT CLOS ) BY STRIKE Vast Munitions Company, Holder Of War Con tracts, Stops Work ALTON, 111., Oct. 12— (JP) —The huge East Alton plant of the West ern Cartridge Co., which holds vast war munitions contracts, remained shut down tonight as a conference of union leaders and War Labor Board conciliators failed to bring about settlement of an unauthoriz ed strike of AFL molders’ and foundry workers. After six hours behind closed doors with union officials R. W. h'aughton, WLB mediation officer from Washington, announced the conferences were continuing and that he would make no comment on the progress of negotiations un til they were concluded. The walkout began Saturday when AFL workers employed in the brass mill and casting shop be gan picketing plant entrances be cause of the company’s alleged re (Continued on Page Six; Col. 6) 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. NAZIS -GAIN SLIGHTLY German Troops Advance A Bit In One Block Of Ruined City MANY OF FOE KILLED 20 Tanks Smashed And About 2 Battalions Of Infantry Lost MOSCOW, Tuesday, Oct. 13—(AP)—Fighting broke out anew inside the city of Stalingrad yesterday after a lull of several days. The Rus sians announced in their mid night communique today. Nazi troops gained slightly in one block of the ruined city. “A regiment of enemy troops supported by 50 tanks three times attacked our po sitions,” the communique said of the Stalingrad fight. ‘‘All the attacks were beaten off. Only in one block our detach ments were somewhat press ed back by the enemy. “As a result of this fighting 20 tanks were disable or set on fire, and about two battalions of Ger man infantry wiped out.” The momentary lull in the costly Nazi effort to reduce the Volga city had led to the belief that the Germans intended to try to break through to the Caspian Sea in the Mozdok area of the Mid-Caucasus, for to the south of Stalingrad. If that is the German intention, the enemy was not making any further progress there. Tile Rus sians said. The midnight commu nique said a counter-attacking Red army “on a number of sector made some advance” in the Mozdok reg ion which protects the Grozny oil fields 40 or 50 miles to the east. The twin German Caucasian ef fort to crawl farther down the black Sea coast southeast of Novor ossisk also was being contained, the communique said. A Soviet unit operating in that area “suc cessfully counter-attacked the ene my and killed about 200 Hitlerites,” it said. Northwest of Stalingrad, where a Soviet relief force has been cut ting into the Nazi flank extended (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) TRUTH PROMISED PEOPLE OF U. S. OWI Director Tells News men That Country Needs Facts About The War CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Wj—The peo ple of the United States will know the truth about the war, Elmer Davis promised today, because the truth will help them win it. The director of the Office of War Information, addressing the National Editorial Association’s advisory council, said his offce recognzed that the more thorough ly Americans understood the war —its origins, its issues and its pos sible consequences” — the harder they would strive for victory. “As Rex Stout has said, the truth is our secret weapon,” Davis declared. “Hitler and the Japs haven’t got it. We ought to use it more effectively than we have used it so far.” Regarding what he said was the newspapers’ responsibility to help develop “an informed and intelli gent understanding” of the war, Davis added: “The job is not so easy as it may look; for it cannot be per formed by merely printing all the news that comes along—by cover ing the war just as you would cover a fire on Main Street.” In the main, Davis said, news papers have made the war news comprehensible, and “such failures as have occurred have in most instances been traceable either to overenthusiasm or to the persist ence of routine habits—such as the tradition that anything that the home town boys are mixed up in is more important that what is done by total strangers.” “There is a sound basis for that, but it can be overdone. A few weeks ago, for instance, there was the raid on Dieppe—deliberately planned as a quick, small, hit and-run operation, where the for ces engaged were not supposed to go far or stay long. “A few dozen Americans took part in that oper (Continued on Page Two; Col. t)
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