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V(11"/ ’HZi-——— —-----WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867
STA TE TO GET $340,000 f
for investiga TIONS OF ft
METALLURGICAL LOlfy
SURVEYRESULTS
Appropriation From Gov
ernment Follows Probe
By Engineers
ADVERTISING helpful
Much Credit Given To Pub
licity From North
Carolina Group
Of the 32,000,000 recently
appropriated by Congress for
S investigation of possible
sources of metal needed m
;v r production, North Caro
5i will receive $340,000, it
,ras revealed Monday by State
Geologist Jasper L. Stucky m
a report to the board of direc
tor, of the State Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment convening for three
davs at Wrightsville Beach.
Deposits Are Numerous
The appropriation was granted
foli„wing a survey, conducted by
';f nationally-known Brassert en
jriering firm, in which it was
disclosed that deposits of iron,
coal, vjngston. mica, molybdenum,
chromite, and manganese existed
in scattered counties of the state.
According to J. L. Horne of
Rocky Mount, vice-chairman of
i::e board, partial credit for the
allotment of funds to North Caro
lina was given to the North Caro
lina Advertising committee, whose
advertisements in national period
icals turned the attention of Pre
sident Roosevelt and others to
the mineral resources of the state.
Governor Broughton has also
worked tirelessly to focus atten
tion on the mineral wealth of
North Carolina, it was shown.
As a result of Geologist Stucky’s
report, committees on commerce
and industry and mines and me
tals will meet Tuesday to discuss
the forthcoming investigations.
The possibility of a new indus
try for tl*e state was envisioned,
when it was pointed out that the
TV A Authority has discovered tha1
some North Carolina clay lends
itself to the manufacture of china
ware. Production of table china
from clay is not carried on in
states nearer than New Jersey and
Ohio, reports disclosed.
Among other significant facts
brought out in committee discus
sions:
This state has risen from the
position of 18th to that of sixth
in the nation in the amount of
forest acreage protected from the
hazard of tire.
In the past year, fishermen
made more money than in previ
ous years, despite restrictions im
posed by war.
There were 21.950,000 pounds
o. herring caught in the past sea
son against 18.700,000 pounds for
uie previous season.
A small increase in the number
gallons of scallops brought in
was noted.
The yield of crab was reduced
J over 1.000.000, due primarily
oL Vage ct labor and the
loMng of several of the state’s
c*aD lactones.
A pennon was presented to the
rcquesting a change in the
r, D, seas,,n September 15
throug UTl act't0 °Ct0ber 1
rw. Apiu. *> action is pending.
‘ *' Petlt>oners requested the
plP 1°, protest to the Office of
sent cP1fmmiStration aSainst pre
eilmg prices on fish foods,
was decided during the Mon
^ T sessions that demands on the
wlu/j had been tightened, ob
f.. ue 10 the decrease in the
fs.'Olmc supply.
Acquisition of Crab Tree Park,
a eigh, by the state since
^onUiiuert on pagc jrjve; Coj 3)
County Will Investigate
Plans Of Social Agency
‘Work Or Fight’ Order
Brings Results As 30
Men Seek Employment
At least 30 men have found
employment as the result of
the “work or fight campaign,”
initiated by Governor J. M.
Broughton and carried on here
through a committee headed by
Mayor Bruce B. Cameron.
Felix A. Scroggs, manager
of the U. S. Employment ser
vice, said that the 30 Wilming
ton men, most of whom he
said have not held jobs in a
“long time,” had gone to work
as the direct result of the
campaign.
The campaign has also pro
duced results in the courts
where vagrants, rounded up
by Chief of Police Charles H.
Casteen’s department, have
either gone to work or to the
county farm.
He quoted a white man as
saying “If I have to work, I’m
going to get a job that pays me,
instead of working for the
county for nothing.”
He went to work, as well as
the other 29. The employment
office sent them to jobs as
laborers, truck drivers, and
carpenters.
“We know this number sought
jobs because of the ‘work or
fight’ proclamation,” Scroggs
said, “because all of them
made mention of it when they
applied for work.”
Ages of the men who would
rather work, "if they had to,”
than fight were between 20 and
50. Most were Negroes.
-V
OPA SEEMS FIXED
ON WEED CEILING
Representative Of Florida
Says That Office Ap
pears Adamant
WASHINGTON, July 19— to) —
Representative Price (D-Flal de
clared today that the Office of Price
Administration seems determined
not to give tobacco growers an
increase in prices over the 1943
ceilings.
The representative, who flew
here after attending a meeting of
tobacco producers in five upper
Florida counties, predicted that if
some increase is not granted there
will be a decline in production not
only in tobacco but also in food
next year.
The markets are scheduled to
open in the Georgia-Florida sec
tion July 2, but a movement has
been started in that area by to
bacco farmers to have the auction
centers remain closed until “an
equitable price ceiling agreement’’
can be effected.
Price said tnat the OPA had
transmitted a draft of its 1943 to
bacco ceilings schedules to the de
partment of Agriculture for re
view there.
“The OPA,” the Floridian as
serted in an interview, “does not
seem inclined to take into consider
ation the fact that the cost of
producing tobacco has gone up any
where to 25 to 40 per cent since
last season.”
One of the reasons OPA feels
that a ceiling price close to that
of last year should be imposed on
the 1943 production. Price declar
ed, is that lend-lease demands for
tobacco will result in about 1,000,
000 pounds less being available for
domestic consumption and that
prices thus should be stabilized.
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 3)
PROBLEM IS DETAILED
Head Of Group Explains
Necessity For Speedy
Action By Board
In a new and vigorous move to
curb juvenile delinquency in the
Wilmington area, county commis
sioners voted at the Monday aft
ernoon meeting to consider, “as
speedily as possible,” concrete
recommendations for handling the
problem presented to them by the
Council of Social Agencies.
Resolutions, which were laid be
fore the board by the Rev. Walter
B. Freed, president of the council,
asked for consolidation of the pres
ent city and county juvenile courts
under one judge; a staff of no
fewer than three probation offi
cers; and new and adequate quar
ters for the juvenile detention
home.
The Rev. Mr. Freed described
the problem of juvenile delinquen
cy as one “of paramount, imme
diate interest ”
“We are going to witness an
increase in delinquency in this
area. It is already overdue, and
it is bound to come. The council
hopes that as men charged with
the responsibility of the welfare
of people in this county, you will
agree to follow through on some
of the suggestions proposed.
“These are not shots in the
dark. They are the results of hours
of study. It is a shame that some
thing has not been done about the
matter before ” the council pres
ident declared.
'She local minister emphasied
the deplorable conditions discov
ered by an investigating group at
the county detention home, where
youths charged with various types
of deficiencies were said to be
indiscriminately lodged together.
“The conditions found there are
anything but complimentary. They
are terrible,” the Rev. Freed con
tinued.
“Youths are forced to live in
squalor with no opportunity for re
habilitation. It is our duty to help
restore these young men and wom
en to the point where they can
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 2)
BUDGET MEETING
SET FOR TODAY
City Council And County
Board To Confer Again
On Appropriations
Members of the city council and
of the county board of commis
sioners will meet in city hall at
10 a.m. Tuesday for the third, and
possibly the last, joint session on
joint budgetary appropriations.
Yet to be decided on by the
two boards are the appropriations
for James Walker Memorial and
the remainder of the board of
health budget.
The budget meetings were post
poned last week when representa
tives of the boards of managers
of the hospitals asked time to con
sider a proposal that the two hos
pitals take over the indigent sick
clinics now being handled by the
board of health.
If the hospitals approve the con
solidation, funds for an assistant
health officer and for the medi
cines purchased by the board of
health for persons seeking medi
cal care at the clinics will be
diverted to the hospital budgets.
In presenting the proposal last
week, Mayor Bruce B. Cameron
said that it would give better med
ical care to the indigent sick, since
the staff of the board of health is
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4>
Big Inch Is Completed But Ickes
Warns That Oil Not For Civilians
4H01MtXVILLE, Pa.. July 19.
ceivpH " ;n,Ch' tbe oil P'Peline con
!;;tiorid and built as Part of the so
]Crn' t0 an acute national prob
this'completed today near
Bin- i f,rn Pennsylvania commu
etiij1,,' , nides from the western
But s °ngview> Tex_
Icb, , f?tai'y of Interior Harold
piat[0’rr,?0kmg on from flag-draped
ers .. ,.as veteran pipeline work
ton Ced the final 120-foot sec
alreaH,,J,'ned again that the oil
the 54 • tlowing eastward through
for ph,inch ,llbe is not intended
"is to ”at‘on’s Problem, Ickes said
E;”i in Ssare that our fighting men
liden (lChlnes -g0 into battle con
lclt behind them there is
no break in the line of petroleum
supply, no limit to the volume of
oil they need for the bloody job
of blasting every enemy into un
conditional defeat.
“In the flush of present victo
ries, let us not abandon the re
solve by which they have been
won. Let us not, in the knowledge
that the Big Inch is ready to flow
new quantities of oil into the East,
plead for an increase in pleasure
driving at the expense of an in
crease in the power of our at
tack.”
The secretary spoke during part
of the dedicatory ceremony, which
was broadcast nationally. Secre
tary of Commerce Jesse Jones, in
a message read by Chairman C.
B. Henderson of the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation, paid
tribute to the oil industry, to
which, he said, the government
turned for guidance in building
and operation of the line.
He noted that the pipeline was
built in 350 days, at a cost ap
proximately $5,000,000 less than
the original $100,000,000 allocation.
President W. Alton Jones of War
Emergency Pipelines, Inc., replied
that the oil industry is proud of
having been able to prevent any
breakdown! in the flow of oil for
essential war purposes. “More pe
troleum than has ever before been
delivered to the East” is being
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4)
^?0 Villages!
r\re Captured
By Red Army
Russians Roll Up Advances
Of From 4 To 6
Miles Near Orel
GUNS GETTING READY
__
Soviet Forces Are Reported
Wheeling Up Artil
lery For Assault
LONDON, Tuesday, July
20.— (JP) —Russian armies
pounding on a semi-circle
around Orel captured 130 vill
ages and populated places in
I advances from four to six
miles yesterday to the north,
east and south of the great
German base 200 miles south
of Moscow, the Soviet com
mand announced today.
Earlier reports from Mos
cow had placed the Red army
within 12 miles of Orel and
said the Soviets were wheel
ing up artillery within range
of the city. Berlin reported
the whole Russian front
ablaze with Red army attacks
all the way from Leningrad
to the western Caucasus.
Malo-Archangelsk Falls
Among the towns captured was
Malo-Archangelsk, 25 miles south
of Orel on the railway running to
Russian-held Kursk.
Another 72 German tanks and
96 planes were destroyed running
the toll of attrition exacted from
the Germans since their attack of
July 5 was converted into a coun
terattack, to 3,516 tanks and 2,094
planes. These German losses were
suffered Sunday.
The midnight communique, re
corded by the Soviet monitor from
the Moscow radio, said the Ger
mans were fighting back deter
minedly, mounting a dozen coun
terattacks during Monday. All
were declared repulsed with heavy
losses.
Troops pounding down from the
north achieved the greatest suc
cesses, scooping up 70 populated
places, the communique said.
These pressing up from the south
toward a junction with the column
atop and behind Orel were said
to have captured 20 populated
places. A junction of these col
umns would pinch off the Orel
salient and trap large German
forces in the base.
Other troops moving in frontally
from the east were credited with
seizing 20 places.
The 255-mile front from Belgorod
to Sukhinichi is formed like an
“S” with a German bulge in the
Russian lines around Orel, and
with a Russian bulge pointing out
from Kursk. It was in the Kursk
area where the battle was joined
July 5.
The communique said only pa
trol activities were reported from
the Belgorod area at the extreme
southern end of the front. It was
near Belgorod that the Germans
achieved some penetration early
in the month, but were unable to
exploit it.
Berlin broadcasts said the Red
army was lashing out with pow
erful tank and artillery forces un
der artillery and air preparation
In four entire sections:
1. The north flank of the 5-mile
front from Volkhov to Leningrad
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3)
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WEATHER
FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Little change
in temperature.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. IVeatehr Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 a. m., 75: 7:30 a. m., 76; 1:30
p. m., 89: 7:30 p. m., 81. Maximum 89;
minimum 73; mean 81; normal 79.
Humidity
1:30 a. m., 97; 7:30 a. m., 94; 1:30
p. m., 63; 7:30 p. m., 34.
Precipitation
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 1.48 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
8.44 inches.
Tides For Today
Sunrise, 5:15 a. m.; sunset, 7:22 p. m.;
moonrise, 10:00 p.; moonset, 8:44 a.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville
on Monday, at 8 a. m., 11.15 feet.
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.
FOE TOTTERS IN MID-SICILY;
BRITISHBA HER AT CAT A NIA;
ROMESHUDDERS UNDERRAID
Yanks Rout Out Enemy Snipers On Sicily Hill
Moving- forward through knee-high grass, Ameri can-infantrymen using high-powered rifles pick off
snipers impeding their advance. An artillery unit p rotects the troops at right as they move on their
objectives. In the distance a shell bursts on a hill. U. S. Signal Corps radiophoto. (International)
Eternal City Blasted By Allied
Attack On Military Objectives
3 VIOLENT DEATHS
OCCUR IN COUNTY
Two Accidental And One
Suicide Reported; Body
Is Found In River
Three violent deaths, two of
which were accidental, were re
ported in the city Monday while
a fourth man died in the surf at
Carolina Beach, apparently the
victim of heart attack, Coroner
Asa W. Allen said late Monday
ngiht.
The body of an elderly white
man—wrapped in cords of seine
weights—was discovered floating
in the Cape Fear river by two sail
ors aboard a Navy vessel in the
harbor and brought ashore by
them at the foot of Queen street
late Monday afternoon.
He was identified as O. L. Mil
lard of Oklahoma City, by his
cousin, J. M. Millard of the Euro
pean Hotel here, at a local fune
ral home late Monday night.
Coroner Allen said that a Negro
was killed in a warehouse acci
dent here Monday morning which
injured two others and that a Ne
gro youth was drowned in Green
field lake Monday afternoon.
Millard said that his cousin
was here on a visit and had left
the hotel Saturday for a visit in
Pender county.
Coroner Allen, who was present
when Dr. A. H. Elliot performed
an autopsy on the body, said that
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
Postoffice Employes
Honor Former Workers
Now In Armed Forces
In honor of former employes
who are now in the armed
services, a plaque has been
set up in the lobby of the post
office inscribed with hte names
of 22 men.
Constructed of a dark wood,
mounted by an American
eagle, the memorial carries
the name of each man in gold.
Space is provided for future
use.
Money for the tablet was
contributed by employes of the
postoffice, Postmaster W. B.
Dosher said.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July
19.—CP)—Specially trained American precision airmen drop
ped hundreds of tons of bombs on rail and airfield installa
tions at Rome today in the first attack of the war on the
Eternal City.
The first “bombs away” call of Flying Fortress bom
bardiers came at 11:13 A. M. (5:15 A. M. E. W. T.).
Leaflets first were dropped, advising the inhabitants
why certain sections of the city were military objectives.
Tons of explosives then smashed the San Lorenzo rail
way yards four miles east of Vatican City. That was the
target nearest to the Vatican. The yards are those in which
Axis troop trains are made up for
dispatch southward to Sicily and
the southern mainland. The Lit
torio yards farther east and the
Cimpino airfield also were bombed
heavily by airmen using the high
ly accurate American bombsight.
Fortresses, Mitchells and Ma
rauders from the North African
command were joined by four-en
gined Liberates from the Middle
East. Their crews had trained
for weeks for this delicate task
and carried large aerial photo
graphs on which such places as
Vatican City, and the churches,
St. John Lateran and Santa Maria
Maggiore, were marked in red
and labeled:
“Must on no account be dam
aged.”
Liberator pilots returning to
Cairo said there was no fighter
opposition, but they encountered
heavy anti-aircraft fire. No men
tion was made of any Allied losses.
(The Berlin radio said the planes
struck in waves during a period
of two and a half hours, an indi
cation that Rome’s defenses were
inadequate to stop the prolonged
attack).
Allied leaders, in anticipation of
an immediate flood of Axis prop
aganda decrying alleged “dese
cration” of Christendom’s symbols
and shrines in ancient Rome, re
leased the news of the raid before
if was over.
“Military objectives in Rome,
and its vicinity, have been bombed
today by heavy bombers and me
dium bombers of the Mediterrane
an air command,” the brief com
munique said “The marshalling
yards was the principal target. It
is of the greatest importance to
the Axis war effort and in par
ticular for the movement of Ger
man troops.
“Leaflets also were dropped
ever the city during the raid. Pi
lots and bombardiers employed on
this mission were particularly in
structed to avoid damaging religi
ous and cultural monuments.”
The bombing was an emphatic
rnswer to Premier Mussolini’s
Fascists who apparently long had
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)
ALLIES DESTROY
260JAP TROOPS
Jungle Fighting Costs Foe
Heavily In Pacific
Battle
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Tuesday, July 20. — Wl — Sharp
jungle fighting, some of which was
grim hand-to-hand combat, cost
the Japanese more than 260 dead
yesterday as Allied forces pressed
their attacks throughout the far
flung southwest Pacific battle
area.
, Near Munda, New Georgia, ma
jor immediate objection of the of
fensive launched June 30 by Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur, Ameri
can troops made a limited ad
vance to enlarge their beachhead
at Lilio. Today’s communique said
379 enemy dead were counted in
the dripping jungle after the
Americans consolidated their
gains.
“Our losses were light,” the an
nouncement said.
Australians continued their ad
vance in New Guinea, engaging the
Japanese in sharp encounters on'
the slopes of Mount Tambu about
seven miles from the big Japa
nese airbase at Salamaua. Eighty
two Japanese dead were left on
the battleground there.
Bombers from both the South
and Southwest Pacific areas not
only gave powerful support to Al
lied ground forces but carried the
fight to enemy bases far removed
from the jungle battlegrounds.
A strong force of Liberators dur
ing the night between July 18 ana
19 repeated their near-record
flight for land-based bombers to
bomb Macassar on Celebes island.
Huge fires were started, some
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 7)
STRIKINGAT ENNA
Moroccan Radio Reports
Jhat Invading Units
Already In City
NAZIS FIGHTING HARD
Germans Savagely Resist*
ing Against Odds To
Save Fort Area
ALLIED HEADQUAR.
TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
July 19.—(/Pi—Axis resist
ance in centra! Sicily tottered
tonight as American and Can
adian troops raced down the
10-mile road leading to the
vital communications hub of
Enna after overrunning Cal
tanissetta and Piazza Amer
ina.
The British Eighth Army
on the eastern coast was bat
tering at Catania’s doors.
(The Moroccan radio re
ported that “American and
Canadian trooos have reach
ed Enna,” and Radio France
at Algiers said aei-ial recon
naissance had noted the en
emy’s “general movement of
retreat” toward Messina in
northeastern Sicily.
(“By road and rail enemy
forces are falling back on
Messina with heavy and light
equipment,” Radio France
said.
(“All around this port, re
ports speak of considerable
defensive preparations. _ It
appears everything is being
done for a final, prolonged
stand.” The broadcasts were
reported by the United States
Broadcast Intelligence Ser
vices.)
35,000 Prisoners Taken
The prisoner toll had mounted
to 35,000, of which 23,000 were in
American hands.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery’s British troops were within
three miles of Catania, 40 miles
to the east from the converging
American and Canadian columns
converging on Enna.
German troops fought savagely
to save Catania, a port prize half
way up the coast to Messina, the
best possible point for the enemy
to escape across the two - mile
strait into Italy.
But inland the Italians surren
dered in droves to the Americans
and Canadians stabbing straight
into Sicily’s heart. These hard
striking Allies were now half-way
across Sicily and threatening to
split in half the island’s defenders.
In one case a group of Italians
were said to have shot a German
officer and then surrendered to
the advancing Canadians.
(British dispatches from Allied
headquarters said it was believed
Montgomery’s army had reached
rt least some of the airfields in
the vicinity of Gerbini, on the
,:ia plain 13 miles southwest
of Catania. One main airdrome
and nine satellite fields are there.)
Prisoners taken by the Allies
had mounted to 35,000—23,000 of
them in American hands—and the
Italians were surrendering in
droves, not as isolated groups but
as complete army units. More than
a tenth of the forces with which
Gen. Alfredo Guzzoni was esti
mated to have begun defense of
Sicily 10 days ago had thus been
herded into camp.
While bombs in Rome, hit Xot
^Continued on Page Five; Col.
London Accepts Bombing Of Rome As Start
Of Series Of Attacks To Finish Italians
LONDON, July 19—(A1)—Witii
grim satisfaction, but not exulta
tion, much-bombed London ac
cepted the first aerial attack on
Rome today as the start or a
series that can end only when
Italy' quits the war.
Press and individual opinion
seemed agreed that the time bad
come when the bombing of the
Fascst capital was necessary to
shorten the Battle of Italy and
to save Axis as well as Allied
lives on the fighting front.
Hours after the raid, the Rome
radio asserted that a church had
been damaged.
It said Pope Pius had visited
the Basilica of St. Loreno Furoi
le Mura outside the wall) which
had been “devastated this morn
ing by bombs dropped by Anglo
Saxon aviators.” The Pope made
a private visit to the Basilica
at 6 PM., returning to the Vati
can an hour iater, said the broad
cast recorded by the Associated
Fress.
This church lies about 1,000
yards northeast of the San Loren
zo railway marshalling yards, one
of the main targets of the attack.
There was no report from other
sources that the church had been
damaged. Rome a little earlier
had reported that many homes
were set afire.
The unusual procedure of issu
ing a communique as soon as the
bombing had started gave the
United Nations the jump in the
inevitable battle of opinion by put
t.ng the Allies’ case up to the
world before the Axis could broad
cast extravagant claims.
Not until late afternoon did the
German propaganda machine get
into gear, putting out a broadcast
under a “Vatican City’’ dateline.
It asserted that “Vatican and
all clerical circle? are greatly as
tounded at and ajsgusted with the
enemy’s attack on Rome Monday
which, contrary to all assurances
given by the United States and
Britain, has destroyed many resi
dential houses in Rome.’’
It said the church had sent of
ficials to investigate the damage,
and that “the Pope felt consider
able disappointment in the atti
tude of the Allies when he observ
ed fires in the city.” There was
no independent confirmation of
this version.
The Allied pamphlets warning of
the coming raid, and inviting Ro
mans to check the accuracy of
Allied bomb aim, apparently
raught the Axis propaganda un
prepared.
The Italian communique ack
nowledged the raid but gave no
details Later a Berlin broadcast,
also recorded by the Associated
Press, quoting comment of the Ro
man newspaper Piccolo, said
Rome stood up to the raid ‘‘with
the same calmness and manly de
liberation as other Italian tow'ns
have done.”
Military circles waited anxious
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4)
A