Leased Wire of the ^ ;-~ THE SUNDAV STAR-NEWS ™™. state and National News ■ ■ M l® ■ M PUBUSHCh 1^-Ifc# j II ■■§ * W W BATAAN <^r—. ~' ___ ^TMg.iP®K7 AMB) IPlLlAg®E3I1 to L____ --:—--- WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1943 FINAL EDITION _PRICE FIVE CENTS CL To Build irge Office gilding Here fa for Construction Of Three-Story Structure fo Be Asked Soon ACTIONED by odt urth Unit Of Office uildings Will Front On Red Cross Street Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 10anv will construct, as early practicable, an additional of building here to supplement present general office build group. C. McD. Davis, presi t of the company, announced irday. ids for construction of the ding, which will consist of three ,ieSi and a basement, will be ted early next week, he said, pproval of the War Production ird for construction of the new {dins has been obtained, as e priotitv ratings for the neces :v materials. The project has ; ia]lctioii of the Office of De se Transportation. and was ap «(i by the railroad’s board of ctors at a meeting in New ; on June 17. Four Units Upon completion of the new wilding, the group of General Of ice buildings here will consist of our units, as follows: General Office building “A”— rest side of Front street, south of led Cross. General Office building “B”— rest side of Front street, north if Red Cross. General Office building “C”— ast side of Front street, north of ted Cross. (New) General Office building 'D"—north side of Red Cross, east f General Office building “C'."’ The above designations are be lt; adopted officially, and the Hidings will bear signs carrying fccir respective appropriate desig nations. The new building to be desig nated General Office building “D” will be constructed fronting on north side of Red Cross east of and adjacent to General Office building “C” 'the Station building) on the oroperty of the Atlantic Coast Lite now vacant east of present drtreway to baggage and (Continuftf on Page Two; Col. 4) fiffS ARRIVE kl DAVIS TODAY arge Group Will Study Iraining Methods At Nearby AAA Center A large group of West Point ca fe. all members of the First ®s. will arrive at Camp Davis in me for breakfast this morning ®1 "ill remain at the nearby an -aircraft artillery training center tour days of intensive activity. Brigadier General James R. M.'nsend. commanding general of be Anti-Aircraft Artillery Train a8 center, is to address the cadets [t the formation to be held after treakfast. The embryo generals ® then attend various church ervices at. Camp Davis chapels. This afternoon a demonstration i barrage balloon tactics and ma tr“i will occupy most of the ca fe time. Earlier plans for an ■fetibition of glider troop opera fes have been cancelled. At 7 dock a reception and dance will ? hold at the Officers club at ■eT‘P Davis for the visiting offi !!s and cadets. Young women of ■imington will be among those !t0 will be dancing partners for le Visitors. Oti Monday, Tuesday, and Wed esaay the West Pointers will be Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Her Dad Wins | Countess Gene Tierney Cassini, movie actress, is the loser in the first round of a suit against her father, Howard S. Tierney, in which she see';s 815,000. She charges he converted her screen earnings. Judge ruled service of papers was illegal. (International) H. E. COOK FOUND BEATEN TO DEATH Police Holding Shipyard Worker Following Dis covery Of Body When an unidentified woman motorist called police headquar ters Saturday evening that she had seen the body of a man near Fifth and Martin streets but could not say if he was dead, a “prowl car” manned by Officers E. A. Sanders and W. J. Millis was dispatched to the scene, and forthwith con nected with a mystery which seems also to be a murder. When the probability of a slay ing having-been committeed was apparent at headquarters, Assist ant Chief J. F. Jordan, Finger print Officer Harry E. Fales and Sergeants H. Hayes and J. R. Sellers joined in the investiga tion. Some 300 feet from Fifth street and an equal distance from Mar tin. the officers came upon the body of H. E. Cook, whose home was at 717 North Fifth. He had been hit a terrible blow with some blunt instrument over the left ear. which apparently caused internal hemorrhage. The external ear was crushed and blood was present in the inner ear. On the left cheek was a large bruise and some swelling, indicating either a second blow or an exten sion of the one over the ear. Both eyes were blackened. The chin had been cut. and the tongue con tained a gash which might have been caused by the victim’s own teeth from a blow on the chin. Nearby were two pieces of wood on one of which Coroner Asa W. Allen said he found human hair, and a brick encrusted with mor tar. Any of these, in the coroner’s opinion, was capable of inflicting mortal injuries. In their investigations with flashlights, the ponce came upon a man giving the name of Worth Cole, claiming to be an employe of the North Carolina Shipbuild ing company and a resident of Forest City, 70 miles above Char lotte. Cole told the police, that he and Cook met at the bus sta tion at about 2:30 o’clock Satur day afternoon and decided to buy some liquor. They started drinking on the waterfront, the police reported he told them, and then started out to “walk around.” He could not ac count for their perigrinations or say why they were crossing the vacant land at Fifth and Martin, but claimed that while he and Cook were there he saw two Ne gro men and almost immediately something hit him in the face and Cook was assaulted. He further told the police, they report, that when Cook fell he, Cole, walked away and lay down in a nearby clump of underbrush. The police aiso say that Cole (Continued on Page 7; Column 5) Ml - Clear Siren Signal Is Adopted For County , . audible all-clear air raid ■ rnmg sjren sjgnai for New - ,a°'’er county was ''orked out “■day by Office of civilian De 'l °fficials after they put the ’^-Horsepower siren at Fifth "'■Hard streets through a se ‘ 01 mechanical tests. tie?"6 signal, or the all t5t r- W>11 consist of three sepa senai-* sts of 15 seconds each, J. 3 ‘etl by intervals of 60 sec ^ Sheriff c. David Jones, com S0-r, of the defense corps, an il,,, fo'lov/ing completion of , - order tu acquaint the public hr* . lp all-clear audible signal siren system, he said, the Saturday noon-day audible blasts for the city and county will con sist of the newly-established all clear^ starting June 26. The all-clear, or White signal, will not be sounded until all prob ability of an attack no longer exists and in no event in less than 10 minutes of the preceding Blue signal. The White signal may fol low a Yellow signal or a Blue signal, but will not follow a Red signal without an intermediate Blue signal. The establishment of the all clear was made by Sheriff Jones; L. J. Poisson, chairman of De (Continued on Page 7; Column 5) Lewis And Operators Re cess Conferences Until 11 a. m. Today 50,000 MEN QUIT Discuss WLB Order Call ing For Contract With No-Strike Pledge WASHINGTON, June 19. — (/Pt — With another coal strike already spreading, John L. Lewis and the operators recessed their joint bar gaining conferences tonight until Sunday at 11 a. m. There was no indication from either side of the wage contro versy of any results from today’s conferences, called to consider the War Labor board’s decision against ordering portal-to-portal pay in the soft coal industry. Some 50,000 miners, about a tenth of the total, already had quit their jobs in anticipation of the end tomorrow midnight of a truce declared by Lewis’ United Mine Workers after the last work halt. Discusses WI.B Order Lewis met with his district pres idents this morning, and arranged for a joint conference with the op erators at 2:30 p. m. After this conference convened, the opera tors held a private caucus while the union's policy committee met at 4 p. m. and recessed indefinite ly Then the joint conference re convened, to discuss the WLB or der that they sign a contract in cluding a pledge of no-strike for the duration. This session recess ed shortly after 6 p. m. until to morrow. Up for decision were these fate ful questions: Whether the UMW would defy the War Labor board and refuse to sign a new contract providing only about 20 cents a day more for the miners than they received under the old one. Whether the nation is to under go a general tie-up of coal min ing. also in defiance of the gov ernment agency, of potential se rious injury to the war effort. The miners went back to work after their strike the first week (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) HOUSE NEAR VOTE ON WAR FUND BILL Debate Completed And Passage Of 71V2 Billions Measure Due Monday WASHINGTON, June 19. — (/PI — In less than four hours, the house calmly completed debate today on history’s largest single spending bill—a $71,510,438,873 appropria tion for the war department. Pas sage, probably by unanimous vote, is due Monday. Fewer than 100 members remain ed on the floor to hear discussion of the measure. Appropriations committeemen said the vast war spending program will go a long way toward taking the measure of the Axis. “We must not slacken our pace, nor the ever increasing force of our blows,” asserted Rep. Starnes (D-Ala). “Our victory must be complete and the destruction of the Axis powers utter and final.” That sentiment was reflected in nearly every address, but Rep. Snyder (D-Pa4 cautioned the money will be a “decisive budget only if we here at home work as hard as we can, reconcile our (Continued on Page 7; Column 2) WEATHER FORECAST NORTH CAROLINA: Continued warm Sunday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 a. m., 76; 7:30 a. m., 77; 1:30 p. m., 87; 7:30 p. m., 81. Maximum 87; minimum 72; mean 79; normal 78. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 84 7:30 a. m., 83 1:30 p. m., 58; 7:30 p. m, 70 Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first —The Russians announced early to day that their long range bombers attacked German airdromes Fri day night, concentrating particul arly on the enemy airbase north west of Bryansk, behind the Orel front where both sides have mass ed large quantities of reserves and supplies. The red airmen started swiftly spreading fires among ammuintion and fuel dumps and plane repair buildings, Moscow reported in a broadcast recorded here by the Soviet monitor. The anouncement said all of the attacking planes returned safely. The Soviet midnight communique disclosed that French fighter pilots now are in action with the Red airforce. They form a group known as the “Normandy squad ron” operating in one sector of the Russian front. “During the past few days six pilots of this squadron in air com bat brought down three German Focke-Wulf-190 planes,” said the (Continued on Page 7; Column 4) Administration Seeking To Salvage Subsidy Plan WASHINGTON, June 19 —UP!— With some indications of at least partial success, the administra tion took hasty steps in the sen ate today toward salvaging the food subsidy program, left hang ing on the brink of oblivion by a house revolt against the price roll back. Acting democratic leader Hill of Alabama said strenuous efforts will be made to restore $35,000, 000 in Office of Price Administra tion funds cut off by the house and to lift ^ restriction against use of OPA money to finance the administration of subsidy pay ments. There was less hope in admin istration quarters of restoring $5,500,000 to the Office of War Information budget for OWI’s do mestic operations, and OWI Direc tor Elmer Davis said he’ll quit if the senate concurs with the house in abolishing these home-front ac tivities. Both Hill and Chairman McKel lar of the Senate Appropriations committee declined to comment on house action to abolish OWI’s domestic branch. Davis told a press conference that if the senate concurs “there will be no OWI, and that is that.” “It will be the job of somebody else to take care of whatever they choose to do in foreign informa (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Great Amphibious Force Organized By Army, Navy WASHINGTON, June 19—OP) —Organization of a powerful Army-Navy amphibious force which probably would spear head American troops in any major invasion of Hitler Eur ope was announced today by the Navy department. A statement which describ ed the formation and training of the outfit that now numbers untold thousands of soldiers and bluejackets declared it was “ready to carry out with speed, precision and perfect co-ordination the most difficult of military assignments — a landing on a fontified hostile shore.” Some units of the force al ready have been in service in the Pacific. The operation against Attu island was initi ated by those units under the direct, personal supervision of Rear Admiral Francis W. Rockwell, commander am phibious torce, Pacific fleet. Rockwell’s counterpart in the Atlantic is Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk. The Navy said that one of the objectives of the training programs directed by Kirk and Rockwell was to eliminate differences in Army and Navy methods so “that there will be no misunderstanding in an ac tual operation.” There was no mention in the official statement of the part which the marines will play in amphibious operations in connection with the special Army-Navy force. Amphibian operations are the essence ot marine training. Absence of the leathernecks from the spe cial corps gave rise to specu lation that the new force prob (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Patterson And WLB Call For Greater Production DIFFER ON FIGURES Undersecretary Charges Labor, Management With ‘Overconfidence’ WASHINGTON, June 19. — UP — Undersecretary of War Patterson apd War Production board offici als agreed today that the United States needs accelerated war pro duction, but differed on the mean ing of recent output figures. Patterson, criticizing labor and management for “over confidence and complacency,” declared pro duction of supplies for the Army ground forces fell 5 1-2 per cent below actual needs in May, or 3 1-2 per cent under April’s output. WPB’s Figures A WPB spokesman replied that overall arms production went i up an estimated 2 per cent last month, and ground forces production is only about a sixth of the total. Concurring with Patterson’s assertion that a great acceleration must be achieved if the nation is to exploit its military victories, he observed that it is erroneous to suppose the entire war produc tion effort has suffered a relapse. WPB Chairman Donald M. Nel son declined comment on Patter son’s press conference statement, but a WPB official talked to re porters. He said the Army ground forces program — which includes tanks, artillery, small arms and ammunition, signal equipment and other items—is only about one sixth of the total war program, and happens to be the area in which the largest deliberate “cut (Continued on Page 7; Column 3) MAICWOMANDIE IN RGAD ACCIDENT Residents Of Lake Forest Community Killed At Harper’s Ferry LUMBERTON, June 19.—Two persons were killed and four oth ers injured late this afternoon when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a bridge abutment on highway No. 74, west of Pembroke at Harper’s Ferry. The dead are Mrs. Sarah Crump Shaw, 30 and Frank Crump, her brother, both residents of the Lake Forest community at Wilmington. Both received head injuries and are believed to have died before reaching the hospital here. The injured are Hoyle Shaw, 28, husband of the dead woman, who suffered a fractured leg; Mrs. Rus sell Crump. 32, back injuries, and ler two children, Ernest R. Crump, 3, and Clark Crump, eight months old, minor injuries. Three other passengers in the automobile es caped injury. They are Mrs. Claude Dockery, Hoyle Shaw, Jr., 30 months old, and Russell Crump, 34, brother of the dead man. The party was en route from Wilmington, where some of the men are employed in the ship yard, to their former home at Man grum, in Richmond county, when the accident occurred. Full details were not immediate ly available tonight and an investi gation was being conducted by highway patrolmen. Overseas Commanders Call For More Waacs CLEVELAND, June 19.—OP)— The few Waacs serving in the European war theater have done so well that overseas commanders are asking for more detachments and a re cent wat'e of “unpatriotic scan dal” has not harmed their re cruiting, Brig. Gen. Joe N. Dal ton declared today. "The number of Waacs over seas now is small, numbering only about 700 women, but it will grow,” he told a press conference. General Dalton, director of personnel in the headquarters of army service forces in Washington, said harm was done “in a mild way” by of ficially denied rumors of im morality among overseas Waacs, but that recruiting was not affected. TWO MENlORYIVE SINKING OF CUTTER Tell Graphic Stories Of Rescue After Explosion Destrovs Ship BOSTON, Jme 19. — Wl — Two mid-western sailors — sole survi vors of the sinking of the Coast Guard cutter Escanaba — tonight told graphic stories of their res cue after a violent explosion sent the ship down in the north Atlan tic with a loss of 58 lives. The first accounts from anyone in the cutter’s crew since the sinking were given in an interview after they had been landed at an east coast port. Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Melvin A. Baldwin, 21, of 319 First avenue, North. Staples, Minn., was at the Escanaba’s wheel and was “blown upward and hit the over head of the wheelhouse.” “I staggered out the door and was washed overboard,” he said. “I don’t know how long it took.” Seaman First Class Raymond F. O’Malley, Jr., 23, of 1123 George street, Chicago, was below. “I reached the main deck and started for number one gun and the ship went down from under me,” he said. Both clung to a strongback, a (Continued on Page 7; Column 1) ALSO HIT SHIPS Doolittle’s Men Down 39 Craft To Rack Up New One-Day Record FULL FORCE BUSY \fessina Ferry Terminal Leading To Mainland Damaged By Bombs Bv HABOLD V. BOYLE ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 19.— (/P) —American warplanes, lashing out with their heaviest blows since Pantelleria collapsed June 11, blasted axis shipping, troops and air fields in Sicily and Sardinia yesterday, allied headquarters announced to day. Maj. Gen. James H. Doo little’s strategic air force one of the two sections of the northwest African Air com mand—racked up its greatest single-day victory, downing 39 enemy craft. Eight American planes were lost as the mighty air arm punched at Mussolini’s island fortresses, spreading destruction in Messina and Milo airfield in Sicily, and ripping at shipping, airfields and com munications in Sardinia. Record loll The 39 enemy planes downed in air battles was the largest toll in any day by the strategic air force _the aerial division assigned to strike at enemy bases, communi cations and supply lines. Larger numbers of axis planes have been destroyed however, in one day in combined operations of the strat egic and tactical air forces and Middle East fliers. Twenty-three of the 39 were smashed down in a great dogfight over Golfo Aranci in northern Sar dinia, where B-25 Mitchell bomb ers laid hits among docks and rail way yards. The communique did not dis close the number of participating American aircraft, but the force was described as the largest wing ing out in pre-invasion aerial as sault since Pantelleria capitulated to air power. Strike Messina Messina was struck in daylight by Flying Fortresses and hits were made on the ferry terminal lead ing to the Italian mainland, on railway yards and upon the pow er station, headquarters reported. P-38 Lightnings carrying bombs pounded the airfield at Milo, in western Sicily near Trapani, and shot up axis troops there, and also strafed airplanes on the Villa cidro airfield. Marauder bombers set three ships on fire at Olbia in northern Sardinia, one of them exploding, and fighter-bombers shot up three radio stations in southern Sar dinia. The heavy assaults Friday fol lowed a Thursday night raid by big RAF bombers of the Middle East air command upon Comiso, Sicily. The night raid came after a daylight pounding of the same target by American Liberators, and set fire to hangars and work shops, a Middle East communique reported. RAF long range fighters harried enemy shipping off the west coast of Greece Friday, and struck rail road installations on the main land, the communique added. Intruder planes from Malta bombed railway targets in south ern Italy Friday night. In defensive actions, American (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Selection Of East Asia Army Chief Considered LONDON, June 19 —(/P)— Un official observers suggested to day the possibility that an Amer ican general was being consider ed along with several British of ficers for commander in chief of the new separate East Asia mili tary command which may take over direction of a knockout blow against Japan. The formation of the new com mand was promised in a London announcement of the appoint ments of Field Marshal Sir Archi bald P. Wavell as Viceroy of In dia and Gen. Sir Claude Auchin leck as military commander in chief in India to succeed Wavell. Britons cheered the app#int ments, which were interpreted as fitting into the Allied grand stra tegy of a multi-front war. No disclosure of the names un der consideration for assignment as East Asia commander came from any authoritative source, but a decision was expected with in a few days. (Of American generals now In the Orient, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell is the senior. He is com mander of U. S. troops in China, Burma and India.) It seemed probable that no mat ter who gets the appointment, some reshuffling will result in the (Continued on Page 7; Column 4)