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■ ; Served By Leased Wire Of The ."1 ^ j VPlCPMSPn ASSOCIATED PRESS W\Ml ^ . I,.. ^ V|^A . . . . ULPlLfloLK iit nrttttw ^inr “"■■ Slate And Natifeal iews ^ 1 ^ ^ I ANDBATAAN ^ *""* ~ "■■—-»■ ■■ ■■ -- » ■ . . -r: |^_______ __ VOL. 76—NO. 243. _ WILMINGTON, N. C THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943 __FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867." SAYS NATION STANDS ON EVE OF BIG WAR CAMPAIGN URGES MINE WORK Secretary Of Interior Tells American Coal Men To Return To Labors VICTORY IS MAIN PLAN Everything Must Be Done To Insure Final Triumph By United States WASHINGTON, June 30.— (A1)—Secretary Ickes tonight told the nations’ coal miners -particularly that group which has not yet returned t0 work—that America stands “on the eve of the greatest military campaign of history” and that ‘‘the complaints of no man or group of men can be placed above our military goal.” ... He urged a run return tu the pits, telling the miners theirs was only one of num erous group grievances pre sented in Washington — “many of them justified”—• and that , “each of these spec ial groups tends to overlook the made?' ispye—the winning of the war—to the immediate interest ofi the particular "It may be no comfort to the miners to know that others, too, are serving their country under economic disabilities, but this is the fact," the custodian of- the gov ernment-seized mines said. "AH ol us must continue to serve until the need passes, disability or nc disability economically.” In every reference Ickes made to failure of the miners and mine owners to reach a settlement, he carefully avoided laying greater responsibility on either side. He I bore down especially only what ' he called "the small minority who still attempt to persuade the ma jority" of miners to stay away from their jobs. “There is no intention on my part," he said, “to expect a great er contribution from the miners than from any other group. On the other hand, so long as I am charged with the responsibility of operating the nation’s coal mines, 1 chnnot expect that their contri bution shall be less—and that goes for the operators of the mines as well.” ‘■The man who tonight or to morrow or next day does not carry bib full share in this country’s baht either does not understand tne immediate crisis that we face, ® he deliberately sabotages in hat f‘Sht in the hope that our ene mies may win,” the government coal boss declared. i the n«t breath he made it clear that he places the strikers „l , * first category, asserting: 1 believe it even though what imSCf111611 have done recently has merfered seriously with the smoom operation of our war-mak “8 machinery.” \ may add- these men n'r a,0"e in that ignorance, in nnr conflned to a single group “ our society,” Ickes said. da>' conditions bright ficld'S'm1 y 111 the strike-hit coal to v ,the return 9.000 min l ' "ork. but 130,000 of the na I 011 Pagf Seven; Col. 4) obacco Sales To Start n Florida Belt July 27 VarJune 30 “W)l cured tnh,S 1 sales on the flue July 97 i.,C*? markets will start Belt andn , e Georgia - Florida Js lhe init' |6ad t0 s«Ptember 20 under a . date m the Old Belt f‘c TobacCchoedAle fixed today by lmted States Ass0ciatlon of the Jr°linaP.5lerdBeIt™ **“ S°Uth Augusts fr, tu was set for Belt August 9>1E Eastern Carolina dle BcU' Sent2’’ and for the Mid as <•£ for mb6r 13‘ The °P“ HaCCOwaE Virginia dark fired The fw?et to December 6. V'ete set latere?hdateS “ generai fended bv^a" times re‘ 8%ers and ,y committee of nd warehousemen meet ing at Raleigh, N. C. These re commended dates were July 27 for the Georgia-Florida Belt, . August 3 for the South Caroliha-Border Belt, August 19, for the Eastern Carolina Belt, August 31 for the Middle Belt, and September 7 for the Old Belt. .. . Governor J. M. Broughton of North Carolina had requested these dates be adopted officially. The association re-elected A. B. Carrington, Jr., of Danville, as president, and adopted recom mendations by the marketing committee designed to guard a gainst too much haste in auction ing. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Pay-As-Y ou-Go Tax Plan Becomes Reality Today Coal Mines Director President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, Carl El bridge Newton (above), 45, of Cleveland, O., has been named di rector of mine operations for the government by Solid Fuels Admin istrator Ickes. (International) 1 ELECTION CASE e John B. Ward, Southport, , Emerges As Record er Of County John B. Ward, Southport Dem ocrat, is the duly-elected recorder of Brunswick county, a New Han over jury decided Wednesday aft ernoon. After some two hours deliber ation, the jury voted “no” to the issue: “Was the plaintiff-relator, D. R. Johnson, duly elected to the office of recorder of Brunswick county at an election held on the third day of November, 1942, and is he entitled to be inducted into raid office?” Judge Jeff D. Johnson of Clin ton. who has presided over the eight-day election trial, denied a motion by attorneys for Johnson, Republican, who alleged improper procedure and fraud in the election which he lost by one vote, to set aside the verdict. The plaintiff then entered notice ot appeal to the state supreme court. The judgment, signed by Judge Johnson on motion of defense at torneys, declared that "John B. Ward was duly elected . . . was duly inducted into office and is en titled to receive the emoluments thereof.” The judgment also taxed the plaintiff with the costs of the trial, transferred here from Bruns wick county. Appearing in the trial, the first of its sort to be held here, were Attorneys Ozmer L. Henry of Lum berton, J. W. Rourk of Southport, and David Sinclair of Wilmington, for the defendant, and Attorneys Alton A. Lennon and Louis Good man for the plaintiff. TO AFFECT 44 MILLION Current Collection System Based On 20 Per Cent Withholding Levy WASHINGTON, June 30.— (.f! — Pay-as-you-earn income taxes be come a reality tomorrow for some 44,000,000 Americans. For the first time since the gov ernment began taking a bite out of incomes 30 years ago, a current collection system based on s. 20 per cent withholding levy above personal exemptions goes into ef fect with the stert of the new fis cal year. The first actual cut comes out of pay for the first payroll period beginning in July. For persons paid on a calendar week basis that period begins Sun day, July 4. Enacted after a bitter, four month Congressional battle that raged chiefly over one word—“for giveness”—the plan wipes out an estimated $6,533,000,000 in present tax liabilities, yet the Treasury expects it to yield $3,600,000,000 more in the fiscal year 1944 and $1,094,000,000 more in 1945 than the present law, which would have brought in $9,8900,000,000. Hence, although on paper from 75 to 100 per cent of each taxpay er’s debt to the government was cancelled, actually the highly dis puted “forgiveness” will not save him any money currently. If his 1942 tax bill was $50 or less and his income unchanged, he will pay the same amount he would have paid under the existing law. But if he owed the govern ment more than $50 he must pay all that he would have paid any way, plus the unabated portion of that debt, which will fall due in equal installments next March 15 and March 15, 1945. The 20 per cent withholding levy, which applies above exemptions of $624 a year for a married person, $624 a year for a single person, and $312 a year for each depend ent, is intended to cover only the six per cent normal and 13 per cent first bracket surtax plus the three per cent net victory tax. As a result single persons earning more than $2,700 a year and mar ried persons whose income exceeds $3,500—those who fall into the sec ond and higher surtax brackets— will have an additional tax lia bility, to be estimated and paid in four equal installments. Those taxpayers will file their first estimates of anticipated in come this September 15. On March 15 after this first, transition year, they and all other taxpayers must file a final annual return on March 15 just as in the past. Employers who begin withhold ing the tax from the first com plete payroll period after July 1 will turn over, the money to the government through banks to be designed as special depositories. All banks covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will be eligible for selection as depos itories. The steady flow thus to be re ceived—Treasury experts estimate the amount at $500,000,000 a month, exclusive of quarterly payments on anticipated income — probably will relieve the Treasury of some of its short term financing and thereby help reduce interest pay ments. The new law exempts from the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -V WEATHER NORTH CAROLINA: Slightly cooler Thursday. (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., 79; 7:30 a. in., 79; ?:S0 p m 74; 7:30 p. m.. 74. Maximum 82; minimum 73; mean 78; normal 79. HUMIDITY 1-30 a. m., 83; 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:30 p. m., 94; 7:30 p. m., 98. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 2.13 inches. Total since the first of the month, 5.40 inches. Tides For Today TIDES TOMORROW High Low Wilmington --- 8 :26a 3 :49a 9:24p 3:54p Masonboro Inlet-6:45a 12:48a 7 :07p 12 :45p Moore's Inlet -—— 6:50a 12:53p 7:12 12:50p New Topsail Inlet - 6:55a 12:58a (Elmore’s) - 7:17p l:00p (All times Eastern Standard) Sunrise, 5:04 a. m.; sunset, 7:27 p. m.; moonrise, 4;27 a.; moonset, 6:46 D. 4 Officials Wilt confer In Richmond On FWA Work Fund City Manager A. C. Nichols and City Attorney William B. Campbell left Wednesday for Richmond, Va., to confer with officials of the regional office of the Federal Works agency. Among the subjects for dis cussion, the city attorney said, is the city’s exact share of the costs of FWA contracts here for the city’s waterworks expansion program, including the new waterworks plant at Hilton, ex tensions to the present system of water and sewer mains, now complete, and the new water supply line to King’s Bluff. Bond issues to pay for the city’s part of the expenses, on a 60 per cent Federal, 40 per cent municipal basis, were ap proved by the voters here in 1941 and 1942. -V BRITISH SMASH NAZI RAILWAYS England Observes Sixth Day Without Sight Of | Enemy Raider m LONDON, June 30.——Britain spent its sixth day without sighting; an enemy plane today while Mus tangs and Typhoons shot up 20 locomotives in sweeps over north ern France to cap a record month ot aerial warfare in which the RAF alone dropped at least 13,500 tons of explosives on German tar gets. American Flying Fortresses; struck Le Mans. France, without loss at twilight Tuesday, and the RAF damaged three of the sb£ German ships encountered by;as$ghfc off Dunkerque at a cost plane amid an array of heartlpQy indications of mounting Allied su periority. While German propaganda out lets talked of a great “reprisal air force” under construction, the Axis’ preoccupation with its de fenses was underscored by a Par liamentary announcement that Britain’s civil defense establish ment had been cut one-third in the last year, and that a further cut of 12 1-2 per cent is underway. Many of the Fortresses whicn flew to Le Mans, airplane engine and chemical center 150 miles southwest of Paris, returned with their dangerous bomb cargoes. This was in line with a policy of not dropping their explosives un less targets are clearly visible. The communique itself gave no results of the American raid, apparently because of cloud layers making observation difficult. Squadrons of U. S. Thunderbolt fighters accompanying the bomb ers shot down at least two enemy fighters, and the Fortresses also destroyed a number of them, the communique said. It was the first time Le Mans had been attacked by the Ameri cans, and the first occasion since the Antwerp raid May 4 that the Eighth Air Force airmen emerged without loss. A Paris radio broadcast record ed by the Associated Press said 46 persons were killed and 36 in jured at a "locality in Normandy,’’ (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Local Milk Consumption Five Times Over Normal Ten thousand gallons of milk are consumed daily in the Wilming ton area, as contrasted with the two-thousand gallon consumption per day before the emergency, E. L. White, owner of the White Ice Cream and Milk company, told the Kiwanis club at its luncheon meeting Wednesday. The milk is distributed through six dairies, he said. The burden of ■ supplying extra milk has fallen squarely upon the milk plant because producer-dis tributors cannot exceed their pro duction under normal conditions, Mr. White pointed out. Inability to purchase cows and the critical need for dairy labor have pro hibited expansion, he said. To help answer the demand for more milk, Mr. White’s firm be gan the importation of 3.000 gal lons of Grade A fluid milk from New York and Pennsylvania. (This is hauled to Wilmington in stain less steel truck tankers, insulated with cork to prevent temperature changes.) The importations from northern states did not begin, how ever, before Wilmington made an effort to stimulate development of the dairy industry in western North Carolina, as a potential source of supply. The effort was said to be wasted, and the state soon was unable to supply Grade A milk demands of the thickly-populated areas. The milk dealer described his industry's most critical problem as being that of plant labor: “The supply of milk we now control seems to be adequate; any irregu larity in delivery of milk in Wil mington is primarily due to the labor shortage or to mechanical failures in the transportation sys lem.” He expressed the hope that rationing of milk would not be in stituted, as “it would only throw additional labor burdens on our plant and would not help the milk situation.” Mr. White explained the fact lhat little or no cream-line is evi dent on some milk by pointing to a new pasteurization temperature observed. The temperature has been increased five degrees to as sure greater safety, and the pro cess has a tendency to “destroy the cream-line, causing the cream to be more evenly distributed through the bottle, as in homogeni zation.” He expressed full approv al of the homogenizing process and indicated that his company would use it exclusively if equipment were available. The speaker outlined as reasons why it would not be economically advisable for eastern North Caro (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) Churchill Warns Enemy Of Greater Air Assaults LONDON, .June 30 — (IP) — In a buoyant and cheering speech, Prime Minister Church ill today forecast thrusts this summer in the Mediterranean “and elsewhere,” triumph antly reported a toil of 30-odd U-boats in May alone and warned the Germans of an air offensive of ever greater wrath and destruction. “Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Med iterranean and elsewhere be fore the leaves of autumn fall,” Britain’s war leader and mas ter phrase-maker told a vic tory-minded assembly in Lon don’s blitz-blackened Guildhall. Churchill delivered a confi dent war review there after receiving the ancient capital’s highest token of acclaim — the freedom of the city — and after a tour through streets of cheering citizens and sol diers of Allied nations. And Churchill concerned himself earnestly with the Al lied unity, declaring that up on British - American coopera tion “depends more than upon any other factor the immedi ate future of the world,” that “acting together we can help all nations safely into harbor and that if we divide all will toss and drift for a long time on dark and stormy seas.” His war analysis repeated the Allied demand for “uncondi tional surrender” of “the Nazi, Fascist and Japanese tyran nies,” and again the prime minister promised that, should Japan still stand when Ger many and Italy are toppled, “every man, every ship and every airplane in the King’s service that can be moved to the Pacific” will be sent there to fight “as many years as are needed to make the Ja panese in their turn submit or bite the dust.” Of invasion, he said directly only the prediction of probable heavy fighting. Of the submarine war, he de clared that in May the Nazis made a determined effort to halt the Allied convoy bridge from the United States to Bri tain, but that this vital battle (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) WALLACE CLEARS RECENT CHARGES Vice-President Says No Re flection Intended On Jones’ Patriotism r . , WASHINGTON, June 30— Itf) - fVice President Henry A. Wallace Ssaid tonight he had intended no ['reflection on Secretary of Com ^onerce Jesse Jones’ ‘‘patriotism or jj lis interest in the war effort” by Recusing the Reconstruction Fin ■mce Corporation, which Jones su pervises, of hampering work of the Board of Economic Warfare. Wallace, chairman of BEW, is sued a statement after he and Jones, called to the White House to explain their fued over imports of strategic materials, had con ferred for two hours with War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes. “I intended to assert that de lays in RFC in acting upon pro jects had delayed the war ef fort,” Wallace said. “I did not state or intend to create the im pression that his (Jones’) person al motive was deliberately or in tentionally to delay the war ef fort.” Wallace had sharply criticized Jones and the RFC yesterday at tributing to them ‘‘obstructionist tactics” delaying BEW’s programs Wallace also said he had agreed with Jones that “for the time be ing” the BEW would continue the present arrangement under which it draws funds for its activities from the RFC, but would later press Congress for direct appro priations. He added that Jones had no objection to this decision. “Preparatory to the Congress re convening,” Wallace said, “the Board of Economic Warfare will initiate steps through the Budget Bureau which will result in a pro. posal to the Congress that there be made available to BEW the necessary program funds for the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7), REDS WIPE OUT GERMAN COLUMN Soviet Fire Destroys Invad er Attacking Near Leningrad LONDON, Thursday, July 1.—(IP) —Massed Soviet artillery fire wiped out a company of attacking infan trymen yesterday in the Leningrad sector, Moscow announced early to day, while the German radio sug gested that the Black Sea-Caucasus front was stirring once more. In the air the Red air force maintained a vigil over the long front, where the Communist news paper Pravda said 211 German di visions were concentrated despite Allied invasion threats in the west. Nine German planes were declared shot down in the last 24 hours. The midnight bulletin, recorded by the Soviet monitor, announced that 1,000 German troops were killed during a Soviet air attack on Pskov near the Estonian border June 23, when a German military headquarters, munitions and fuel dumps, and 12 parked planes were destroyed. Yesterday’s noon communique said Russian scouts had overwhelm ed a strongly defended hill in the Kalinin sector below Leningrad, kilbng 200 Germans, and the mid night bulletin reported scattered fighting on the front west of Mos cow and near Belgorod in the south. Moscow dispatches tended to bear out German broadcasts that the Kuban area was on the verge ot' erupting again. They suggested tha* ussian airmen, by striking two nights in succession at Taman, on the Kerch strait opposite the Cri mea, were attacking Germans mov. ng fresh troops into the Caucasus. British Planes Bomb Sicilian Ferry Line In Isolation Attempt ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 30. — </B — Striking from bas es many hundreds of miles apart at targets separated by only six miles of water. British bombers from the Norlh Afri an and Middle East Commands have smashed heavily at the fer ry connecting Sicily with the Italian mainland in an effort to destroy the island’s communica tions and so substantially to is olate it in the event of inva sion. Announcements today from this headquarters and from Cairo told of great damage worked in these twin raids, de livered Monday night at a cost two Allied planes. This continued hammering of the Messina strait was accom panied by a statement, jointly issued by the U. S. and British air forces, that the Allies had now thrown “a complete air umbrella” over the Straits of Sicily and that the whole stretch of the Mediterranean from Gi braltar to Sue* thus was being opened to Allied shipping. 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. He Is Returning DOUGLAS MacARTHUR ALLIESCOMMAND STRIKING POWER Knox Declares That Abili ty To Map Campaign Rests With U. S. LOS ANGELES, June 30,—IJPl— Fower to decide where the next blow will be struck in the Pacific “now rests with our side, and it will continue to rest with us for the duration,” Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox declared to day. He also predicted that the Ger mans and Italians won’t be able to interrupt supply lines for “in vasions” of Europe and that the Japanese won’t have to wait too long to learn about this side’s strategic decisions. Addressing a rally inaugurating a campaign to sell enough war bonds to buy a cruiser to be named the U. S. S. Los Angeles, the Navy secretary said: “There is no branch of the Axis armed forces today—eitner to the east or the west of us—which can not testify to the growing power of the United States and the United Nations. “These Nazi and Italian forces were not able to cut or interrupt our supply lines to Africa, and they will not be able to halt the communications and supply lines which will lead to other invasions on European soil. “In the Pacific, the Japanese are no longer in position to decide where the next blow will be struck. “Our forces in the Pacific, in all categories are steadily being strengthened, and with very def inite ends in view. I can promise you that the Japanese will not have to wait too long a time to learn about some of these deci sions.” Earlier at a press conference Knox referred to the new United States offensive in the central Sol omons as the beginning of an at tack on Munda bay and surround ing enemy bases. He said he had heard only word of mouth accounts of the new operation, and, shown a newspaper bearing the Navy’s disclosure earlier in the day, com mented “that’s interesting, isn’t it?’ Knox declared the United States never has regarded the Pacific v/ar as of importance secondary to the conflict in Europe. He ex pressed himself as “tremendously pleased’ with American weapons, asserting that there never have been ships so heavily armed as those combatting the Axis, and that better planes than those of the United States do not exist. Discussing strengthening of the American Navy, Knox said that in the year ending tomorrow, new construction of combatant ships will have increased by more than (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) New Georgia Is Attacked By MacArthur Japanese Land Forces En gaged In Battle Near Salamaua Base AFTER RENDOVA PUSH All Units Of Allied Com mand In Close Syn chronization WASHINGTON, June 30_ (A5)—A great pincers move ment designed to liquidate the Japanese in a vital area of the Southwest Pacific appear ed in progress tonight. The outlines of the master strategic plan began to take shape as follows: 1. ihe headquarters of General Mac Arthur an nounced that the Allies have occupied Trobriand and Wood lark islands off the south eastern tip of New Guinea, and have landed near Sala maua, Japanese stronghold on the east coast of New Guinea. They are engaging Japanese forces near Sala maua and the whole action by land, naval and air forces is under the personal direction of General MacArthur. 2. The Navy Department at Washington disclosed that American forces have landed on Rendova island in the en emy held central Solomons— some 400-500 miles east of New Guinea. The MacAr thur communique announced extension of that action to the neighboring and larger New Georgia island, where American forces have landed and come to grips with the enemy. Attacks Point To Rabaul Though the objectives of the far flung attacks were of course not stated, they appeared pointed to ward Rabaul on New Britain, which lies northeast of Salamaua and is the center of the whole Japanese defense positions in the South and Southwest Pacific areas. The aim would seem to be to drive on Rabaul from the south west and southeast. If the cam paign, which seemed to be a fully prepared general offensive involv ing all Allied forces in this gen eral area, succeeds, the Japanese defenses in a large section of the Pacific may be expected to col lapse. The enemy then undoubtedly would have to fall back on his great naval bastion of Truk, rough ly 1,000 miles to the north. But Truk too would then be in dan ger, as well as the supply lines through the China sea between Ja pan and the lands the Japanese have conquered in the southwest Pacific. The word of the landing on Ren dova was the first to be given tc the world. A 22-word Navy communique re ported the immensely important operation, which by some stand ards shaped up as the first thor oughly offensive campaign of the war against Japan. The communi que said: “On June 30, during the early morning, combined U. S. force# landed on Rendova island, New (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) Governor Will Support Work - Or-Fight Decree RALEIGH, June 30.—</P>—Assert ing that his “work or fight” pro clamation was “no idle gesture, ’ Governor Broughton tonight said that he would use every power at his command to support the may ors, sheriffs and public officials in their effort to insist upon idlers going to work. The governor, speaking from the mansion over a state-wide radio hook-up, recalled that his procla mation a week ago had asked that Monday be set aside as a day of dedication throughout the state. He asked that organization of committees be made to “plan to the end that every able-bodied person shall be enrolled for active farm or industrial work.” “I urged that every county com i. mittee and chairman in North Carolina plan thoroughly for the meeting that is to be held on Mon day, that you search out those places where idlers hang out, whether it be in smoke shops, pooj rooms, beer joints, loafing places of any kind, and find out why it is that they are not at work,” the governor said. “And if they still stubbornly re fuse to work in this hour of na tional danger, I want to say to you that with whatever power I may be vested in by virtue of legisla tive action I intend to support the mayors and sheriffs and public of ficials in their effort to insist upon these idlers going to work.” (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. S) A.
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