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BUI Hilmiimtnn Miirninn Star SI VOL. 76.—NO. 219.___WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1943 . PINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. Nazis Hurl 500Planes At Kursk; Red Gunners Knock Down 123 NEW AXIS DISPLAY Latest Drive By Foe Arous es Speculation On Foe’s Intentions FIGHTING continues Enemy Held Kuban Bridge head Still Under Fire From Red Army LONDON, Thursday, June 3.—(/P)—The Germans hurl ed 500 planes against the big central Russian base of Kursk yesterday in five attacks, losing 123 of them, Moscow announced early today. The Russians reported losing 30 defending fighters in the ser ies of battles. Announcement of this dis play of Axis sky strength caused immediate speculation on German intentions at a time when Allied observers ,vere seeking the answer to two questions—the reason for a delay in the expected sum mer German offensive in Rus sia, and the disposal of the major part of the carefully husbanded Axis air fleet. Xo Essential Changes The broadcast, recorded by the Soviet Monitor, preceded issu ance of the regular midnight war bulletin which told as usual without details that “fighting con tinued” in the German-held Ku ban bridgehead of the Caucasus; otherwise there were no essen tial changes on the long land front. Casualties and an undisclosed amount of damage was acknowl edged by the Russians at Kursk, which is a feeder point for Red army units long threatening Orel to the north and the southern ap proaches to Bryansk to the north west. Bom sides have strong forces assembled in this critical triangu lar area above the German-held (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) FRfM GROUP TO ACT TODAY Committee to Declare Gov ernorship 01 AH Free Territory ALGIERS, June 2.—<iP>—The six-man executive committee head ed jointly by Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud decided tonight to meet tomorrow and de clare itself the governing body of all French territory outside Axis domination. Heated arguments between the two French blocks striving for unity caused the collapse of plans to formalize the existence of the committee today, but after further conversations a definite agreement was reached for holding the ses sion tomorrow morning. Of course anything may hap pen tomorrow, but at least tonight there was the declared aim of I both groups to merge officially I end settle the many problems bar fing the way to unity. This decision apparently meant 'hat de Gaulle had yielded in his demand that a purge of some Gi faud officials, whom he regards j>s pro-Vichy, be carried out be forehand. WEATHER FORECAST today11™ car°LINA: Hot and sultry •Eastern Standard Time) , <Bv E. S. Weather Bureau) * ,B'i,_eoro|ogical data for the 24 hours nS 7:30 p.m., yesterday. ... Temperature u! 75; 7:30 a.m, 78; 1:30 p.m., ;T 7:30 p.m., 81 formal'1'?™’ 93; minimum, 73; mean, 83; Humidity •">» am., 93; 7:30 a n. 1;30 p.m„ - ‘;3C P-m., 77. Tvt.i , Precipitation B , 01al for the 24 hours ending 7:30 - °-0C inches. 3Ssf1 ,Mn« the first of the month, w,0° inches. Tides For Today ^ °m the Tide Tables published by • c°a*t and Geodetic Survey). '•taington - „!«? «*X ^bsonboro Met_VZ fcoor''s Inl«t - 8;00a 1:58p K'ew t 8:18p l:59p ®m,T“PSai Inlet- 3:05a ?:04a (!,s'r- 8:23p 2:04p Ail iimes Eastern Standard) fcomril8*1 *3:U1 =>•«>•; sunset, 7:18 p.m.: Ke» 5:44a; moonset, 7:59p. vn^Pc *ea* River stage at Fayette fPel 00 Wednesday, at 8 a.m., 10.4!® Wommued on Paee rive. Col> 8) Japanese Are Annihilated In Hupeh Province Sector CHUNGKING, China, June 2 —(JP)—Chinese troops smashing forward all along the Yangtze front in central China were declared officially tonight to have annihilated all Japanese remnants surrounded in a Hu peh province sector south of the river and to have launch ed' an attack on the town of Changyang below the main ene base of Ichang. Northeast of Ichang, said a Chinese communique reporting a series of sharp successes in the counter-offensive against the Japanese invader, a num ber of points were recaptur ed. In north Hunan province, It was added, Chinese forces had regained three towns above the city of Lihsien and in this area, too, it was declared that the retreating Japanese had been surrounded and many of them annihilated. Well to the north of all this action, in Shangsi province west of the Taiheng mountains, the Japanese were counter-at tacking. The Chinese announced that in fighting between May 11 and May 24, more than 5,000 ca» ualties had been inflicted upon the Japanese in the mountain ous regions east of Shantung. One of the main accomplish ments of the Chinese come back—which has turned back a Japanese offensive in what China calls her biggest victory (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3l ALLIED SINKINGS OF SUBS R1 NG British Sea Lord Declares Rate Above Axis Re placement Capacity LONDON, June 2—(IP)—Allied de struction of Nazi undersea raiders has been stepped up to the point where the German losses apparent ly are in excess of new production and where the number of submar ines operating in the Atlantic seems to be definitely on the wane, A V. Alexander, first lord of the Admiralty, told the the House of Commons today. Pointing out that destruction of submarines reached a new high last month, he said that the “num ber of U-boats destroyed in May will exceed the number which the enemy will have been able to bring into the war.” He added that the sinkings in the last 12 months exceeded the num ber sunk in all the previous months of the war and that in the iasi six months the number was 25 per cent greater than in the previous half-year period. This damage inflicted upon the enemy undersea fleet more than balanced off the merchant shipping losses suffered by the United Na tions, he said, explaining that even during the month of March when Allied losses were heavy “owing to a high output in new tonnage achieved in the United States there was a substantial net gain in that month.” •Paying tribute to the work of the U. S. Air Force and the RAF I (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) I Actor Leslie Howard Reported Lost With Big British Airplane LONDON, June 2.—UP)—Brit ish overseas transport plane, with actor Leslie Howard re ported aSnong its 13 passen gers, was officially declared ov erdue and presumed lost today after reporting in a final mes sage yesterday that it was be ing attacked by enemy aircraft while enroute from Lisbon to England. It was apparently the victim of German planes on unusually active reconnaissance along the seldom - molested air transport lane from neutral Portugal. The names of the passengers and crew of four were with held from the British overseas airways corporation’s announce ment of the plane’s presumed loss, but Lisbon reports said Howard was aboard. In their daily communique, broadcast from Berlin and re corded by the Associated Press, the Germans said: “Three ene my' bombers and one transport were downed by German recon naissance planes over the At lantic.” ___ ROYAL NAW S PANTELLERIA ISLE Shells From British War ships Shriek Into Ital ian Held Harbor ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 2.—— Shrieking shells from British war ships have crashed into the harbor defenses of Pantelleria in two heavy bombardments and Amer ican Flying Fortresses have deliv ered coordinated air blows within two days on that nearest Italian outpost to Africa, it was announced today. In neither of their successful bombardments of the island, which lies 45 miles off the Tunisian coast and’eO miles short of Sicily, did the British suf' ' casualties. The Italian fleet appeared powerless to come in and fight. The harbor area, Italian bar racks and batteries of Pantelleria were hard hit overnight on Sun day-Monday and again yesterday. The first bombardment, said the Allied communique, was carried through without effective opposi tion. In the second enemy shore batteries replied weakly. This disclosure xnat xne imi nau gone to work with new blows against the islands flanking Mus solini’s homeland in cooperation with the Allied air offensive was accompanied by announcement that yesterday’s surface attack on Pantelleria had been supported by aviolent bombing assault by Flying Fortresses. Pantelleria was raided from dawn to dark yesterday without letup, American medium bombers and fighter bombers joining the Fortresses in sweeps carried out on the average of every two hours. Sicily and Sardinia also remain ed under attack in the unbroken Allied air offensive. Heavily damaged were the Ital ian seaplane base on Stagnone is land, off the western tip of Sicily between Trapani and Marsala; shipping in the Sardinian harbors of Tercanova, Porto Ponte di Ro mano and Porto Torres. A single Allied plane was lost in these far-ranging operations. In the one air combat of the day ten enemy fighter planes attacked a formation of American Mitchells over Terranova, but the result of the engagement was not made known. At Stagnone, a considerable number of enemy seaplanes were destroyed or damaged. Three ene my boats were set afire in harbor before the Axis anti-aircraft guns could get going well. Italy herself was hit overnight by British planes based on Malta, a British communique announcing that railway communication in the southern Italian mainland was at tacked. The Italians officially acknowl edged serious damage to buildings in the Pantelleria bombardment, but claimed damage to a British destroyer by Italian coastal fire. --1 1,500 Japs Die On Attu; 4 Express Love For Life WASHINGTON, June 2.— — The Navy underscored the suicidal nature of Japanese resistance in the western Aleutians today with the disclosure that only four pris oners were captured while a min imum of 1,500 Japanese were be ing killed in the first 20 days of the American drive on Attu island. The death toll probably will be increased greatly when final re ports are in. The figure is addi tionally moderate in that it rep resents only bodies counted and takes no account of Japanese who may have been buried under the snow by their comrades or left unrecognizable by the blasts of great shells and bombs. It is this stubborn resistance which has prolonged the Attu struggle into its fourth week. The American forces were understood to be continuing mopping up op erations today and despite the en emy’s heavy casualties a number of pockets of resistance in the mountainous northeastern end of the island around Cape Khlebnikof still had to be cleaned out. American casualties thus far announced indicated that Ameri can losses on the island were far lighter than those of the Japanese. Secretary of War Stimson said last Thursday that United States forc es had lost 127 men killed, 399 wounded and 118 missing. While this did not cover as long a period as the Navy’s report on Japanese losses, authorities said (Continued on Page Five; Col, 5) Senate Approves Pay-As You-Go Plan For Na tion’s Taxpayers 62 TO 19 BALLOTING Roosevelt Reported Ready To Allow Bill To Be come Law WASHINGTON, June 2.— ■(/P)—Four months of bitter congressional battling ended today as the Senate stamped final approval, 62 to 19, on a compromise pay-as-you-go tax bill abating 75 to 100 per cent of a year’s payments. Representing a compromise between Democrats and Re publicans, the comparatively brief but complicated meas ure goes to President Roose velt, who is reported to have assured Congressional leaders that he will let it become law, either by signature or other wise. If he elects to veto it, these leaders concede the bill will die. Some Denunciation Approved by the House yester day, 256 to 114, the revised meas ure sped through the Senate with an explanatory discussion by Chairman George (D.-Ga.) of the Senate Finance committee and some denunciation by those who have opposed any tax “forgive ness.” Promising an increase in indi vidual income tax revenues to Senators Josiah W. Bailey and Robert R. Reynolds voted for the compromise tax measure in the Senate Wednesday. _ - about $16,000,000,000 in the new fis cal year beginning July 1, the measure makes radical changes in the revenue system in use since 1913. Some of these changes: 1. Puts into effect July 1 a 20 per cent withholding levy on wages and salaries, above basic exemptions of $12 weekly for sin-j gle persons and $24 weekly for married, plus dependent allow ances. 2. Abates a full year’s tax (the lesser of 1942 or 1943) for all per sons owing $50 or less in that year. A “notch” provision gives everyone owing up to $66.67 a $50 cancellation. 3. Cancels 75 per cent of the lesser of either 1942 or 1943 taxes for other persons, with provision that they pay the remaining 25 per cent in two equal installments in March, 1944 and March 1945. 4. Requires persons with more than $100 income outside wages and salaries, and all single per sons with $2,700 income and mar ried persons with $3,500 income, to estimate their earnings for 1943 in a return filed before September 15, and to pay quarterly beginning (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 2) Roosevelt May Order Miners Back To Jobs Miners Scan Papers For News Concerning Work Stoppages i Miners at the Red Lion mine near TJniontown, Pa., scan a newspaper for information on the work stoppage at the soft coal mines which began Monday midnight. _4 -- rlrtLlNt WOKK SEEN BY MAYOR City Officials Inspect Pro duction Plant For Wa ter Conveyor Although held up by delays in delivery of materials, finished 16 foot sections of reinforced lock joint concrete pipe for the city’s i new water supply will come rolling off the Lock-Joint Pipe company’s assembly line at Navassa this week, R. W. Jones, manager of the plant, told Mayor Brue,e B. Cameron, City Manager A. C. Nichols and City Engineer . J. A. Loughlin during an inspection of the Navassa plant by the three city officials Wednesday morning. A number of sections of pipe have been completed, up to the concrete pouring stage, and Man ager Jones said he hoped to be able to begin pouring Thursday. Five hundred feet of 30-inch pipe will come from the plant each day for the pipeline from the pres ent city intakes at Toomer’s creek, on the other side of the Cape Fear river from Navassa, to a tempo rary pumping station and intake on Hood’s creek. Plans are to extend the 30-inch line eventually to a salt-free source of water above U. S. Lock and Dam No. 1 at King’s bluff in Bladen county. Sixty men have already been (Continued on Page Eigfit; Col. 5) Walter Lippmann Says: America s War Goal Has Notv Been Made I — By WALTER LIPPMANN Mr. Churchill is said to have remarked while he was here in Washington that “nothing succeeds like excess.” He was talking of the air raids in which such a tre mendous weight of bombs is de livered that the defenses are over whelmed. But the saying has a wider application, and those who wish to keep their opinions abreast of events will be assisted if they fix it in their minds that in spite of all the issues, controversies and crises we have heard so much about, the great goals which were set shortly after Pearl Harbor have been reached. The Ameri can mobilization is in fact a pro digious success. In the days to come Americans will look back to it with pride. The volume and power of our military output are now so large that problems which a few months ago seemed insoluble, controver sies which until recently seemed irreconcilable have become ra tional and manageable. The sea son is here when we begin to have enough for everybody. As that happens, it is much easier to satisfy everybody, i Not very long ago, for example, | there was a stubborn conflict in Washington among the men charged with synthetic rubber, aviation gasoline, escort vessels. The three programs drew upon the same apparently restricted source of supply. But now, due at bottom to hard work by de voted officials and to the immense resiliency of American industry, and also in a measure to the will ingness of the people to do with out the use of their automobiles, we find that the conflict is dis appearing. The wartime rubber problem has been mastered. Our air force and mechanized ground forces are being supplied the fuel they must have. The strategically decisive battle with the submarine has taken a great, perhaps the de cisive, turn for the better. Under these circumstances it is reasonable to predict that Mr. Byrnes will be more successful than his predecessors in resolving the conflicts between claimants on our production. There is very much more war production. It is always easier to share enough than to share too little. For the same reason the recent staff talks in Washington have been the most successful that have yet been held. Giving all credit to the fact that all concerned were more experienced, and had come to understand one another better, the controlling condition has been that at last we have reached a phase in the war where strategic successes and the achievements of production and mobilization are making adequate our combined power. Thus the kind of issue which Senator Chandler sought to raise was in fact obsolete. He did not know it was obsolete, and there were officers, but not at the high est leve, who did not know it was obsolete. Before the whole posi tion was examined at the Roose (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Anti - Strike Bill Placed Before House By Victory WASHINGTON, June 2.—(fP)—Advocates of Congress ional curbs on wartime strikes won a major victory today in a roll-call vote of 211 to 163 which brought the Smith Connally bill to the House floor. Amid charges of political chicanery, warnings of ad verse effects on production of arms and other necessaries, and condemnation of John L. Lewis, the chamber began consideration of the measure to outlaw strikes in govern ment-operated plants, to curb them in other war indus CITY TO ENFORCE ' AUTO DIMOUT LAW Police To Conduct Cam paign Against Viola tors Next Week After this week, the city police department’s traffic squad and all patrol cars will conduct a rigor ous campaign against all motorists whose automobile headlights have not been painted or obscured to conform with the recent city or dinance adopted at the request of Army and civilian defense officials, Chief of Police Charles H. Cas teen warned Wednesday night. All drivers caught falling to com ply with the ordinance will be ar rested and cited to appear in recorder’s court where, under the ordinance, they may be fined up to $20 in the discretion of the court. The ordinance requires that ail vehicle headlights confirm by hav ing the upper half of each lens painted or obscured with dark cloth. Any motorist whose car or truck headlights do not conform may have the job done free of charge a;, any of the city’s five fire sta tions, City Manager A. C. Nichols said Wednesday. A number of automobiles here, the chief warned in issuing his statement, once met the require ments of the ordinance but fail to now since rain and weather has disolved the paint on the lenses. The ordinance was adopted at a special session of the council on! (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3) i itries, require unions to me annual financial and membership state ments, and strengthen the power of the War Labor Board. AVith numerous amendments pend ing, there was little prospect of a final vote before late Friday on the measure passed a month ago by the Senate and sharply revised by the House Military committee. Opponents of the bill, contending it would antagonize labor and en danger production while not solving the coal strike sought unsucess fully to block action on the meas-1 ure by voting against a rules com- j mittee resolution making its fon-! sideration in order. The vote by which the resolution was adopted crossed party lines, with leaders of both parties sup porting it and its supporters insist ing that Cogress no longer delay in enacting strike legislation. One hundred six Democrats and 105 Republicans voted for the res olution, with 88 Democrats, 71 Re (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 8) Bank Clearings Show Decline During Past Month In This Area Bank clearings for the month of May in Wilmington took the downward trend, and were nearly $10,000,000 short of the clearings reported for April, D. M. Darden, secretary of the Wilmington clearing-house association announced Wed nesday. The May figure, however, wa* almost $9,000,000 in excess of the amount handled in May, 1942. According to Mr. Darden, lo cal banks handled $35,841,579.69 during the past month. The April total was $45,597,561.54. Nearly All Beef Types Raised In Point Value _ OPA’s revised meat ration point chart will be found on page nine. WASHINGTON, June 2—W—In an effort to switch civilian tastes from scarce beef cuts to more plentiful pork, veal and lamb, the Office of Price Administration to night increased by one to three points per pound the ration-point values of nearly all types of beef. The order, effective Sunday morning, will make the most pop ular beef steaks cost 11 or 12 points per pound—a 33 to 37 per cent increase. The general level of point values for the other three kinds of meat was little chanied, despite numerous small increases, % and decreases, so that the new order mean for people who usu ally buy beef a choice between eating less meat or switching to the other types. Insofar as they do not give up beef, the order also means, in ef fect, a cut in the meat ration. In some families this reduction will be accentuated by the addition to the red coupon ration list of can ned milk, announced yesterday, and of certain soft cheeses, in cluded for the first time in to night’s order. The jump in beef point values was due to a market scarcity of the commodity, OPA said, result ing both from large military re quirements and a failure of beef (Continued on Page Eight; Col. il ( % WILL UPHOLD WLB President Expected To Jake Action In Strike This Morning AT CURRENT PAY RATE Chief Executive Reported Contemplating No Im mediate Raise WASHINGTON, June 2.— (JP)—President Roosevelt was authoritatively reported to night to be prepared to order the nation’s striking coal min ers tomorrow to go back to work at current rates of pay pending settlement of their demands through peaceful channels. Such action, if taken, would fully sustain the War Labor Board’s position in the coal wage controversy with John L. Lewis’ United Mine Work ers. Secretary of Interior Ickes, as fuel administrator and government operator of the mines, may be directed at the same time to have all mine properties open and to make work available on a given day specified by the President, informed sources said. Receives Full Report The President tonight received a full report on the strike at a con ference lasting more than an hour and a half. At the conference were James F. Byrnes, war mobi lization director; Secretary Ickes, . seven members of the War Labor Boad, and Abe Fortas, undersec retary of the interior. Ickes, it was reported, advocat ed offering the miners $1 a day immediately as a settlement of their portal-to-portal (underground travel) pay demand. It was un derstood the proposal was reject ed on grounds it would be a cir cumvention of thfe WLB and the generally accepted processes for settling labor disputes. All the conferees brushed aside inquiries from reporters, and pres idential Secretary Stephen Early said “there is nothing to say.” The case landed at the White House in a bitter .exchange of words between the War Labor Board and John L. Lewis, leader of the 500,000 idle miners. The board, calling a halt to fur ther collective bargaining till the strike ceases, turned the case over to the president, declaring that the United Mine Workers headed by Lewis were flouting the law of the land the “no-strike” pledge. Then the White House made public a letter from Wayne L. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) -V— $2,000,000 WAR HOUSING SEEN Private Firm To Construct 500 Apartments For Workers Here The John R. Crosland company of Wilmington and Charlotte, has completed arrangement! with the Federal Housing Administration for the construction of a $2,000,000 war worker housing project here, it was revealed here Wednesday night. The privately - owned project, sponsored by the FHA, will con sist of 76 apartment houses of frame construction with a total of 500 apartments for war workers in the Wilmington area. The 76 apartment houses will be located in an area in Sunset Park, approximately three blocks from the North Carolina Shipbuild ing company and two blocks off the Carolina Beach highway, north of the new Winter Park-shipyard highway. Start of actual construction is pending the final arrangement of (Continued on Page Three; Co!. 2) NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, Phone 2-3311 before 9:00 a. m. and one will be sent to you by special messenger.
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