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§51 Uhlmutgfcm Ulnrntng Star ! ™ I __N0.262 --v --: - - WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 fAR LABOR BOARD CAUTIONS AGAINST INFLATION WAGES Hit REVEALS PLAN President Discloses Search For Reorganization Of Economics CONGRESS TO DECIDE Regardless Of Idea Solons f{\\ Have Final Word On Program WASHINGTON, July 23.— IV, _ The War Labor Board solemnly cautioned labor ho ar against seeking “infla tTonary wage increases” even r President Roosevelt dis ced that the Administra tion is endeavoring to reor ganize the defense against m fation with a new price con trol and economic stabiliza tion program. . While acknowledging that 50 ideas have been agreed up on yet. the president told a tress-radio conference that whatever decision is reached , twress will have the final I w4 because — it will cost iMsy. Follows Labor Plea Mr. Roosevelt's announcement formula declares in general that labor asked him for a retail price rollback to September 15, 1942, levels or abandonment of the WLB's “little steel” formula. This formula declares m genera that wage increases granted to com pensate for higher iving costs shall not total more than 15 per cent of wages paid on January 1, 1941. The board announced today it has no intention of scarpping the little steel formula although “otn er divisions of the anti-inflation army may* weaken.” Presenting its position in an opinion denying wage increases to Los Angeles transit workers who struck yesterday for a 24-hour pe i iod, WLB told labor that before making wage demands discordan With the stabilization program ‘‘labor should look to what is likely to happen if that program is bro ken down.” "The present day problems of our domestic economy are becom ing so serious and critical,” said the opinion written by Wayne L. Morse, public member of WLB. ‘that the board must hold the lid on wages' and. at least for the time being, must insist that labor make >vage sacrifices.” Declaring that the board intends to hold the line against inflation ' insofar as demands for inflation ary wage increases are'concern ed. the opnion observed; "The time has come for labor to realize that if we are going to stop inflation we cannot continue to raise wages in the wage brack ets which are not substandard. However, having made sacri fices in the form of unrealized 1 ,a“e increases and decreased pur celLnT P°W"r' 2ab0r is in an ex cellent position to voice the de mand that prices be rolled back 1 fS0,1abIe levels and that the ea'., ot llvin§ be strictly controll p‘'e.en' president of the arTphim F®deration of Labor To™ lp Murray- bead of the tons T-/ IndustriaI Organiza tion Irf i 'asterday that unless restored l ^ °f 10 monthi: aSO ere ° dIabor will discontinue sup ‘of‘be ^dire stabiMzation pro Admiy"d reknremovaI of Price Presiri Prentiss Brown. Qent Roosevelt told his con [tontmiecl an Pa»c Two; Co]. 5) *■ About 170,000 Farmers Expected To Vote For Weed Referendum Today RALEIGH, July 23— upi _ Dean I. O. Schaub of the N. C. State college extension serv ice division, estimated today that 170,000 North Carolina growers, tennants and share cropers were eligible to vote in the referendum for flue cured tobacco quotas tomorrow. Lists of eligible voters have been eompiled, Schaud said, and are in the hands of county AAA committees. He urged, however, that farmers who think they are eligible to vote, but have not been advised to that effect, go to the polls and cast their vote. The county and state AA committees will de termine later if the vote is valid. Secret ballots to be used In tomorrow’s voting will deter mine (1) whether marketing quotas are approved for three years, (2) approved for one year only, and (3) are rejected for next years, crop. Polls will open not later than 9 a. m., and close not later than 5 p. in., Schaud said. To become effective quotas must be approved by at least a two third majority. Quotas in effect on the 1943 crop were approved in 1940 for three years by 123, 863 farmers. 76 CASES SLATED FOR COURT TERM Seven Murder Charges To Be Heard At One Week Session i Seventy-six cases, including sev en murders, are on the docket for the one week criminal term of su perior court which opens at 10 a. m. Monday with Judge John J. Burney of Wilmington, presiding. However, because of the time in volved in each, Solicitor Clifton L. ! Moore of Burgaw, is expected to have most of the murder trials carried over to the special crimi nal term which the solicitor has requested for August 16. Nine new members of the grand I jury will be selected when court | opens Monday. Only 14 of the defendants involv ed in the 76 cases are now in jail, Assistant Clerk of Court C. L. My ers said Friday,' The remainder are out on bond; The defendants in the murder cases, the majority of whom will be summoned before the grand jury next week are: Alfred T. Surles, white man, charged with shooting of his es tranged wife, Gladys Surles, in June. William Bryant and Luther Dry, Negroes, charged with fatally in juring E. G. Cook, white man, in a fracas here. Armond Hall, Negro soldier, who recently surrendered himself to stand trial for the nine-year mur der of another Negro. O. H. Keese, white man, charg ed with running over a Camp Da vis soldier with an oil truck and fatally injuring him. And James "Sporty” Foreman, Leoy Anderson and Albert Scott, all Negroes, charged with the mur der of other Negroes. -V ATTACK REPORTED NEW YORK, July 23.—(A*)—1The Berlin radio said tonight that “strong forces of Allied bombers have attacked German airfields in Crete,” the large Greek island south of the Balkans, NBC record ed the broadcast. ^ewis Recognizes WLB And Agrees To Meeting £?in?t10N> Ju]y »•-<*> - br,g anri ,at east temporarily, a '*SllbvltterfeUd- John L- Low. Labor j recognized the War aPpear today and agreed to cCct whTt *in supp°rt °f a 9 model fh h’ he h°Pes- will be tire 4 /? KSetUement of the en* Lewie'6 abor controversy, fore tv. "ritten offer to come be <font of tv, °TTd-' wh'ch the presi ®reviousi, 6, United Mine Workers ly rem0/PHhaS scorned’ apparent «acle7tred one of the major ob foine di,Zard settlement of the !n the co^?-6 -b> gettinS both sides ''lB anri ,roVersy to *'t down with The hkr,dl,scuss the situation. 01 minri 7 eader’s sudden change &«ce oh b°ut the board which he c°Urt,’’ argod Was a “packed ,Jar the Tjivrw c?used, spokesmen tte boa,..] said, hy the fact that 'Pereas ■ no'y is a statutory body Ner Pv ln the past it functioned executive decree. The Smith-Conally labor disputes act, which gave WLB legal status, empowered the board to subpoena witnesses and records in consider ing labor disputes. The board had no such power when it earlier re quested the union to come before it, arid since the mine wage dis cussions started last March, Lewis repeatedly ignored the requests. Lewis’ recognition of WLB was in the form of a letter to board Chairman William H. Davis. The UMW chieftain wrote that he and Illinois mine operators “stand rea dy to appear before you” to sup port a contract between the union and the Illinois Coal Operators As sociation. The contract, approved this week and accepted yesterday by the UMW policy committee as a mod el for the entire coal industry, pro vides for portal-to-portal pay of I Continued on Page Five; Col. 8) - Monty On Va g Commander of the British forces in Sicily and hero of the North African campaign, Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery is shown during a brief vacation at his home in Lon don. His forces are battling fierce opposition around Catania in east ern Sicily. (International). Catholic Publication Places Responsibility Of Rome Raid On Foe BALTIMORE, July 23.—UP)—The Catholic Review, official organ of the archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington, in an editorial today placed upon Mussolini entire re sponsibility for the bombing of Rome. “Mussolini did contrive cun ningly to place arsenals of de struction near the churches that we love, in the city which is horn# to all of us as Catholics,” the ed itorial stated, continuing: “We believe that the bombing of Rome was determined on in agony of spirit—not through the wish to bomb it but through the convic tion it had to be done—done, with every effort to spare the sacred places. “There has been some hypocrisy in some circles in the protests against the bombing of Rome, just as there has been protests from some hypocrites concerning the bombing of other cities and the destruction of churches in other lands. Hitler, who has tried to drive Christ from Germany and other lands, has raised a cry of protest against churches destroyed in Germany though his men wrecked churches, in England, in Poland, in Holland, in other invad ed countries. He is the same Hit ler who, with his atheistic co-de structionists has lamented the crumbling of churches.” COUNTYSALARIES TOTAL $41,843.58 New Hanover Auditor Re leases Figures On Wage Expenditures A total of $41,843.58 was expend ed by New Hanover county dur ing the past fiscal year for sal aries in offices of the register of deeds, clerk of court, sheriff, and constable, J. A. Orrell, auditor, said Friday. A breakdown shows that $523.92 was spent for constable service; $11,680.50 for the register of deeds’ office; $10,683.40 for clerk of court; and $18,955.76 for the sheriff’s office. A total of $25, 666.57 in fees was collected by these branches to be applied to expenses. Mr. Orrell also reported that the officers’ relief pension fund netted $6,182.66, and that $2,341.48 was disbursed by the fund. The sum of $29,100 was spent on two outstanding notes, both of which were paid from the school building fund. The county paid its drainage gang $8,659.23. 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. ? RAF Bostons Assault Two Power Stations In Occupied Belgium LONDON, July 23.—UP)—Two power stations in Belgium were attacked today by RAF Bostons which dropped de layed-action bombs from a height of only 50 feet. The Air Ministry news serv ice quoted returning fliers as saying that all bombs “com pletely destroyed” the main buildings at one power station. The attack was carried out in ideal weather. Enemy planes were reported over southwest England and Wales last night, marking their first appearance over Britain in a week, but a com munique said no bombs were dropped. RAF Typhoons, Mustangs, Spitfires and Hurricanes of the Fighter Command made day light sweeps over occupied Eu rope today, attacking enemy transport. Four Hurricane pilots report ed they destroyed two loco motives and damaged three others and shot up barges and motor trucks, the Air Ministry news service said. FLEETUNITSHIT ENEMY ON KISKA Jap Positions Heavily Bom barded; Return Fire Ineffectual WASHINGTON, July 23— UR — Pacific fleet task force which pos sibly included battleships heavily bombarded Japanese positions on Kiska island yesterday, the Navy announced today. Enemy coast defense guns returned the fire but failed to damage any of the war ships. The shelling, seventh of a dead ly series prooably designed to soft en up enemy defenses for the Bat tle of Kiska, followed by 24 hours an American bomber raid aimed at knocking out the newly com pleted air strip on the island. Nu merous hits were scored on the runway and camp area, and sev eral fires were started., a com munique said. Meanwhile, in the South Pacific, the Japanese for the second time in two days bombed the American base on Funafuti island in the El lice group on Thursday. The sec ond raid apparently was heavier than the first, in which only three bombers participated and which iesulted in no damage or injuries to personnel. In Thursday's attack two of the Japanese bombers were shot down and the Navy communique said that while damage to American installations has not been reported here there were some personnl casualtis. The strategy behind the Japa nese air attack on Funafuti was a subject of no little speculation. Some persons here regarded it as the beginning of an enemy counter thrust directed at the center of the supply route between the Ha waiian islands and the Somons Australian area. By such action the Japanese might hope to tie up American forces in a new battle zone and relieve the pressure on their Dositions in the Solomons is (Continued oa Page Five; Col. 2) Big Japanese Ship Sunk By Allied Planes Latest Enemy Attempt To Run Supplies To Buin Is Frustrated DESTROYER DAMAGED FigHter Planes Try Inter ception But Are Shot Into Sea ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Saturday, July 24. —(JP)—Allied bombers smash ed a Japanese attempt to run supplies to their strong base at Buin on Bougainville is land Thursday night, sinking a 9,000-ton enemy seaplane tender and damaging one of four escorting destroyers. The seaplane tender, of the “Nisshin” class was sighted off the coast of Bougainville island just at dusk. Heavy torpedo and divebombers, pro tected by a strong force of fighters, sped to the attack and sent the tender to the ocean bottom. Japanese Zeros, in .force, attempted to ward off the attack but they were driven away by our fighters. Five of the enemy planes were shot down. Three of ours are missing. Planes Find Good Hunting Two-engined bombers and fight ers found good hunting in heavy bombing and strafiing along the coasts of New Guinea and New Britain destroying 12 enemy barg. es between Hanisch harbor, just east of Lae, and Cape Bushing, near the western tip of New Brit ain. At least 14 other barges were destroyed or seriously damaged. Today’s communique from Gen eral Douglas MacArthur’s head quarters contained no information on the progress of American troops closing in on the Japanese airbase at Munda, New Georgia. It said merely that “divebombers attack ed enemy gun positions in support of ground troops”' in that area. A surprise attack on enemy in stallations at Rekata bay an Santa Isabel island, northeast of New Georgia, was carried out by our fighters and bombers. In Vella gulf, between Kolomban gara and Vella Lavella islands, Allied light surface units inter cepted four Japanese barges at tempting to tun supplies to Kolom bangara. Two of the barges were set afire. A strong force of four-engined bombe.-s, escorted by fighters, dropped 61 ions of bombs on Bo gadjim. a village 20 miles south ci the big Japanese base at Ma dang, New Guinea. Many direct hits were scored on buildings and installations and large fires re sulted. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) Walter Lippmann Says: Next President Faces Tremendous Obligation By WALTER LIPPMANN Any man who is fit to be presi dent in 1945 must, when his name is mentioned today, feel very hum ble indeed. For he will have the responsibility of making certain that our dead shall not have died in vain. That will be his task. The man who can hope to be equal to it will look upon it not as a dazzling ambition, but as a stern and awful duty. He will have to comfort the stricken, bind up the wounds of war, show millions upon millions the way back to private peace and personal security and redeem with honest measures the hopes they have paid for with their sweat, their blood and their tears. Much will be asked, much will be ex pected, of the next president of the United States. The citizen, then, must shudder when he sees the hack politicians who talk as if they were calculating the odds on a horse race which they hope their favorite will win because the other horse, breaks his leg. There is a wide gulf opening up between the professional hacks and the people who fight, who work, who wait anxiously for their sons and their husbands. The peo ple watch these hacks arguing about who can win the election. The people, the great mass of them, find life much too serious to give a tinker’s damn about party politics. They are concern ed about who can govern the coun try. These are times that try men’s souls, and the actions which will have to be decided upon in the years baginning in 1945 will shape the destiny of the nation and of the world for generations to come. To reduce all this to the dimensions of a contest in a po litical precinct is vulgar trifling with the lives and the fortunes of the people. That is why so much hangs upon the movement within the Republi can party to make it a party which is fit to govern. It is pos sible that the Republican party might win the election not on its own merits, but by the default of the Democrats. War brings hard ships, and hardships make griev ances, and demagogues can ex ploit them. But if the Republican party is led by men who want to win that kind of election, then the result will be another Harding ad ministration. As this war is an immensely greater war than the last, involving the whole life of cur people more profoundly, so will the scandal and disaster be greater too. And even if, as seems likely, our people remember 1920 and are forewarned against it, the fact that the Republican party conducted a campaign at the Harding level would drag everything else down to that level. Fire will be fought with fire. When claptrap is the order of the day, it will be met with buncombe — nonsense with nonsense, trickery With trickery. And matter who emerges the winner from the orgy of bombast and bamboozlement, the nation will surely be the loser. Moreover. the party which comes into power in such an elec (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) AXIS ARMY REPORTED EVACUATING SICILY; U. S. SEIZES PALERMO _ . Reds May Trap Nazis At Orel Russian troops have driven to within nine miles of Orel which Hitler has ordered held at any cost, capturing 39 towns northeast of the city (A). Another 50 localities were liberated east of the city (B) and advances were made in the south (C). New progress is reported at Belgorod (D). Red troops captured a fortified height which had changed hands four times near Izvum (E) and drove a wedge into German defenses southwest of Vorochilovgrad (F). More than 250,000 Nazis may be trapped at Orel. (International). Russian Forces Crash Across River At Orel LONDON, Saturday, July 24. — (tf*) — Russian forces crashed across a river directly east of Orel, killing 2,000 Germans massed on the west bank, and scored fresh gains of two to four miles on the north and south sides of the beleaguered German central front pivot, Moscow announced early today. German broadcasts said 18 Soviet divisions had be gun a powei*ful offensive south of Leningrad, but official ;nussian aispaicnes were siiem uu developments there. The river crossing at Orel ap peared to have put the Red army within eight miles of the city aft er a three-mile drive from Zolo tarevo, the last village to fall in that area. Another Russian column was less than nine miles northeast of Orel. Several more villages fell to the advancing Russian* who knocked out scores of German tanks and killed thousands of enemy troops yesterday in fighting raging clear down to the Sea of Azov, said the midnight bulletin recorded by the Soviet monitor. North of Orel the Russians beat down several fierce German count erattacks near Bolkhov, wiping out a regiment of enemy infantry. Bolkhov, keystone of a strong Nazi defense network 35 miles above Orel, fel' to the Russians Thurs day. The Soviet drive on the north al so was wheeling behind Orel, endangering the railway running northwest of Bryansk. One dis patch said Karachev, midway be tween the two cities on the rail way, alreadv was threatened. A special communique said 92 German tants were knocked out and 112 planes shot down during Thursday, and the midnight bul letin said that 5,400 enemy troops (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) GERMANS OFFER SICILIAN ALIBI Axis Reports Losses But Endeavors To Make Adequate Excuse LONDON, July 23.— UP)—1The Axis reported today the triple loss of Palermo, Marsala and Trapani, but sought to mask defeat by pre senting movements of their forces as planned concentration in the northeastern part of Sicily. Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, German military commentator, said ih a broadcast over the German over seas radio, recorded by the Brit ish Ministry of Information, that the “systematic evacuation” of western Sicily was “according to plan” and that Allied moves at tempting to hamper the Axis "dis engagement” action and to trap large forces have been “success fully repelled.” Propaganda Minister Paul Jo seph Goebbels in his weekly arti cle in Das Reich, blamed “acts of God” for recent Axis reversals, but at the same time endeavored to assure the German people that (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) WEATHER FORECAST NORTH CAROLINA: Moderate temperature today. (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., 68; 7:30 a. m., 71; 1:30 p. m., 83; 7:30 p. m., 80. Maximum 87; minimum 67; mean 77; normal 79. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 100; 7:30 a. m., 96; 1:30 p. m., 69; *7:30 p. m.. 73. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. mt, 0.91 inches. Total since the first of the month, 9.51 inches. Tides For Today High Low Wilmington - 3:02a 10:15a 3 :37p 10:51p Masonboro Inlet-1:15a 7:26a l:50p 8:Q2p Moore’s Inlet - 1:20a 7:31p 1:55p 8:07p New Topsail Inlet -- 1:25a 7 :36a (Elmore’s 1 _ 2:00p 8:12p (All times Eastern Standard) Sunrise, 5:18 a. m.; Sunset, 7:19 p. m.; Moonrise, -; moonset, 12:58 p. Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville on Friday, at 8 a. m„ 13.75 feet. BERN C1YES STORY Stockholm Newspaper Pub lishes Scant Tale Of Enemy Withdrawal 45,000 TROOPS TAKEN About Four-Fifths Of Re sistance Seems Ended On Italian Isle LONDON, Saturday, July 24. — <7P) — A Reu ters Stockholm report said today that Axis forces had begun evacu ating Sicily. Reuters said the source of the report was a Bern, Switzerland, dispatch to the Svenska Dagbladet. AMERICANS HIT HARD ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 23.—(IP)—An American armored column striking with deadly speed to the north coast has captured Palermo, capital of Sicily, to trap 45, 000 or more Axis troops and apparently end Axis resist ance in four-fifths of the is land. The U. S. Seventh Army tanks and cars which thun dered into the sixth largest Italian city from three sides already had begun fanning out to mop up thousands of Axis troops. The sledgehammer blow caused consternation among the surprised defenders and spread dem oralization throughout the Axis camp. Another Reverse Implied (A Rome, radio broadcast re corded by NBC implied another Axis reverse on the eastern coast of Catania. “Our forces have re adjusted their positions around Ca tania to the rear,” said the broad cast referring to the area where crack German troops have put up a stubborn defense against the British Eighth Army.) An official announcement to night said the Americans had ap plied their modern tank and plane tactics to capture the big city, which is the political and cultural center of Sicily One armored column hooked in to the Sicilian capital from the southwest, another hit it from the south and southeast, and a third cut northward to intercept enemy forces withdrawing from Palermo toward the east. It’s estimated that approximate ly three divisions, 45,000 men, now are cut off in western Sicily. Repercussions of the lightning seizure came from all over Italy and the Balkans. Madrid dispatches said Italians demonstrated in the streets of Rome, Venice, Milan, Turin, Flor ence and Trieste, shouting “peace.” Strikes and sabotage were re ported sweeping the country, and ihe Balkans was rumbling with reports of rebellion. Rome already was the scene of a large-seal* civilian evacuation movement. The battle for Sicily appeared to be falling rapidly into the same pattern as the battle for Tunisia in its closing stages. The capture of Palermo with its converging swiftly toward the one (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) FDR Points To Bombing Of Rome As Necessity WASHINGTON, July 23.— UP) — Still hopeful that Rome will be declared an open city, President Roosevelt emphasized today that Monday’s bombing of the Italian capital’s munitions and railway fa cilities was dictated by military necessity to save the lives of Al lied fighting men—and not for re taliation. The chief executive offered no assurance that the swelling air might of the Allies would not again return to Rome; to the contrary, he declared that the more the Al lies could keep military traffic from operating between Rome and tr.e south the better it would be for the Allies. He told his press-radio confer ence that the Allies for more than a year had sought without success to have the Italian Fascist leaders declare Rome an open city, a move I which would free it from attack, and added that he still hoped it would be so made. An open city is one which con tains no troops, defenses, military installations, military factories, or transportation facilities utilized for the movement of military sup plies or personnel. The power in possession, having thus demilitar ized the city, then could declare “open,” probably subject to an in spection by a third party to see whether the conditions have been met. In discussing the raid on Rome Mr. Roosevelt described the city as an important military center with airports, munitions factories and immense marshalling yards for the transport of troops and guns to southern Italy. The bombing, he said, was to protect American and British lives. He termed it very successful, and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1),
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