vice-president; Miss Jo “awa Rehder, secretary; Mrs. a-h;s Newman, treasurer; Dr. • ■ Elliot and Dr. J. C. Wessel, ■■wary vice-presidents. The exe ve committee will be composed 1 ese officers, together with • e members-at-large, chosen ^ntiaued on Page Seven; Col. 4) City Makes Test On New Water Plant lo„rhlcily’s r5w seven-million-gal So imfr plant "as scheduled to "Jeht !■ "perati°n late Thursday test r,'111 °£ a seraes °f the or beinS Pumped through j o ®pleted Plant, City Engineer ternoon Bl’Un Thupsday thar‘ enSineer also revealed Wine liil Creek water sup iruan.i.. ro;)ect was now approx Once testPer C°mplete‘ throne), runs of water start o„eUB\ he flltar plant, said to be Muip.J niodern and best Wi'i v . 11 tke South, little time (ent « before it is in 100 per He ,, r,at on’ Mr- Loughlin said. 1(1 he rn- that tbe test runs had Water .dl3e Iate at n*Sht because Savlielit °nsumPti°n here during t: th. ’ours is close to capacity The ?resent waterworks system. | hlDdl0me new plant, locat New Hospital Addition Nears Completion In City . ex*er*or sponsored wing to Ja mes Walker Memorial Hospital presents an attract ive appearance. ASIATIC LEADER TO MEET CHIANC Mountbatten To Confer With Chinese Chief Be fore Action Starts WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.— UR — The staff conferences which Lord Louis Mountbatten began to d a y with high-ranking American mili tary leaders will be followed in the near future by similar discus sions in Chungking with Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek before a campaign is begun against the Japanese in Burma. This was learned tonight after Mountbatten. appointed 24 hours ago as Allied supreme command er in Southeast Asia, arrived by plane from Canada to talk with Army and Navy officials. At the same time, these aspects of plans already made and others yet to be formulated were report ed: (1) The main objective of Mount batten’s operations will be to in crease the present trickle of sup plies to China to a flood, indicat ing a general Burma campaign, although attacks also may be made in Malaya. (2) Mountbatten’s staff is not yet chosen in its entirety, but he will have a British chief of staff, an American—already selected but not identified publicly—as deputy chief of staff, and probably an (Continued on Page Three: Col. 1> Local OP A Enforcement Attorney’s Office May Be Permanently Ended Theodore S. Johnson, state di rector of the Office of Price Ad ministration, said Thursday night that the position of enforcement! attorney for the Wilmington area1 which was vacated August 15 by J. Frank Hackler, “will quite like ly not be filled.” Mr. Johnson explained that the state OPA budget had been re duced, and that it has not yet been determined exactly where person nel reductions will be made. Meanwhile, Dan J. Herrin, food rationing officer, and Herbert Bluethenthal, price official, with their stenographers, are the only remaining members of the area OPA staff, with headquarters in the Trust building. The several investigators formerly employed have been assigned to duty in the Raleigh district office. Enforcement work for the terri tory has been handled recently by representatives from the Raleigh district. ed at Hilton near the site of the present filter plant, is being con structed by the A. H. Guion com pany. Very little work remains to be done before the completed structure will be turned over to the city, Mr. Loughlin said Thurs day. It was built under the city’s $2, 500,000 waterworks extension pro gram which is being jointly financ ed by the Federal Works agency and the city with the FI#A putting up 60 per cent and the city 40 per cent of the total cost. The filter plant was scheduled to be in operation in June but priority delays put off the completion date. Completion, City Manager A. C. Nichols said Thursday, will mean that the city will be able to fur nish all necessary water for1" the Maffitt Village and shipyard trail er camp war housing projects New Hospital Addition To Open In Mid-October The overworked medical staff of James Walker Me morial hospital and the overcrowded occupants of that in stitution look forward to the opening, sometime between October 15 and October 31, of a new 108-bed wing. Equip ment, not construction, will be responsible for the delayed opening, C. F. Churchill, Federal Works Agency engineer, said Thursday. But the hospital’s nurses are expected to move into at least the top floors of the new four-story, 70-bed addition to their home approximately September 1—in time for the arrival of a new class. The paint job in that building is being completed now. The nurses are pointing with pride to the fine reception room, where! they'will be able to enicrtain their friends during off-duty hours. Wilmington’s newest hospital fa cilities will cost $508,000, of which the Federal Works Agency granted $428,000. The former figure in cludes everything—equipment, en gineering, and construction. Actual construction cost was said to be $442,300. The handsome new addition is a, three-story brick structure (with basemenf designed by Lynch and Foard, Wilmington architects. It possesses fire walls, and the wood interior has been treated with a chemical that renders burning al most impossible. (After the war, a sprinkler system will be install ed.) First floor and second-floor cor ridors connect the old building with the new, giving persons in the new wing ready access to elevator: service. The structure will be steam heated, and high-pressure boilers will be provided for the sterilizing of instruments and materials. Perhaps one of the most wel come features of the entire con struction program will be the new incinerator, where for the first time the hospital will be able to dispose of its quantities of garbage quickly and effectively. This sup plement to the boiler room is ex pected to promote increased sani tary conditions, inasmuch as the handling of waste has not been an easy problem since facilities have been overtaxed. Engineer Churchill reported that grounds for the wing will be ap proximately landscaped, and that there will be an abundance of walks and drives. The new plant, under construc tion since December 29, 1942, will be turned over by FWA to memb ers of the hospital board of manag ers, of which J. C. Roe is chair man, when the last bit of work s finished and the equipment re ceived. through a pipeline built by the FWA from the city limits at Green field lake to the two projects be yond Sunset park. A limited amount of water is now being furnished by the city to the two projects which will even tually house some 4,000 families. Price Brothers, contractors for the pipeline, are making good pro gress, City Engineer Loughlin com mented. In addition to laying sections .of reinforced, lock-joint concrete pipe along the right-of-way from Ka vassa toward Hood's creek, the contractor has assembled pontoons and other equipment for laying the steel pipe that will go under the Cape Fear river at Navassa to reach the present pipeline termi nus at Toomer’s creek. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) Y INTEREST NEEDED IN LOCKER PLAN Project May Be Dropped Unless Residents Show More Enthusiasm Unless rural and urban residents of New Hanover and surrounding counties show more interest in the proposed freezer locker set-up foi this area, the project will be drop ped, County Agent R. W. Galphin announced Thursday. Mr. Galphin revealed that Wash ington authorities had shown an inclination to assist farmers in their effort to secure priority for purchase of the 300 locker equip ment, but that no progress could be made until a sufficient number of persons submitted the $50 de posit that will help underwrite the plant. Although public sentiment seems to favor the establishment of the modern freezing plant, nothing but the cash-in-hand can guarantee its construction, Galphin declared. (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3) Carolina Beach Given AA-3 Priority Rating On New Sewer Project i The Carolina Beach Sewerage extension project has been award ed an AA-3 priority rating, and plans for the new sewerage line have been forwarded to Richmond for review by the regional office of the Federal Works Agency, FWA Engineer C. F. Churchill said Thursday. Mr. Churchill predicted that the project will be advertised for bids early in September. The sewerage extension has al ready been given a Federal grant of $30,421 and a loan of $18,000 to finance construction. WEATHER - i ■- i forecast NORTH CAROLINA: Continued rather ■warm. (EasteJ.n st,andard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m„ yesterday. Temperature 1-30 a m., 77, 7:30 a. m., 78, 1:30 p. m.. 90, 7:30 p. m, 81. M^timum 91, minimum 77, mean 84, normal 77. Humidity 1-30 a. m., 87, 7:30 a. m„ 88, 1:30 p. m., 58, 7:30 p. m, 74. v precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 P Total ™nce“' first of the month, 4.68 indie*. For Today Hi(h Low Wilmington --- 2:i°2p Masonboro Inlet - 5:09a 11:03a Moore’s Inlet - |g New Topsail Inlet - 5:19a 11.13a agSnStVSrfup on Thursday, at 8 a. m., 9.25 teex* People Of Nazi Capital Reported Fleeing City; Russians Pursuing Axis 800 GERMANS DIE Numerous Enemy Counter attacks Beaten Down By Steppe Army TANKS KNOCKED OUT First Goal Of Drive Is Ap parently Poltava, Vi tal Railhead LONDON. Thursday, Aug. 27.—(TP)—The Soviet steppe army pursuing German troops retreating toward the Dneiper river west of Kharkov gained three and one-half miles yes terday, wiping out 800 enemy rearguards, routing two bat talions and capturing several villages, Moscow announced early today. Numerous enemy counter attacks were beaten down in the relentless chase across the hot Ukraine plains, the daily communique said, as the Rus sians under Gen. Ivan S. Ko nev broke into villages and re duced them in bitter street fighting. Fifteen tanks were smashed or burned in one en gagement. Poltava. Aleady By-passed The bulletin gave no indication how far the Russians had advanc ed west of Khakov, but the firs* big goal apparently is Poltava. 75 miles to the southwest on the railroad leading to the Dnieper, another 75 miles beyond. One Russian column already had by-passed Poltava on the north in a direct plunge toward the ma jor goal of Kiev, Ukraine capital 170 miles beyond Zenkov, which the Soviets captured Wednesday. This Red army group was within 45 miles of the Kiev-Poltava rail way and other lines criss-crossing the central Ukraine. In the Donets basin, the Rus sians said, Red troops killed 2,000 Germans and destroyed 48 tanks yesterday in fighting south of Iz yum and southwest of Voroshilov grad. Whole trainloads of ammu nition and other booty were cap tured in lunges which were en countering and absorbing frequent Axis counterattacks, said the com munique, recorded by the Soviet monitor. Konev, whose troops captured Kharkov Monday and rushed on through the city after the with drawing Germans, was raised from colonel general to general yesterday, a Moscow broadcast disclosed. Markian M. Popov, whose troops seized Orel and are now fighting 25 miles east of Bry (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) CITY TO REQUEST RECREATION FUND Application To Be Made With Emphasis On War Worker Problem The city will make a new ap plication for Federal funds to de velop a municipal recreation pro gram, with an emphasis on war worker recreation, City Manager A. C. Nichols revealed Thursday night after a conference with Mrs. Helen S. Hoggard, field recreation al supervisor for the Federal Works Agency. Mrs. Hoggard made an exten sive tour of the city and of war worker projects here, in company with Jesse Reynolds, newly - ap pointed city recreational director. The city manager said Mrs. Hog gard indicated that there was “suf ficient need’’ to warrant a Fed eral allocation of funds for rec reational purposes. The allocation would incluoe funds for the continued operation of the Woodrow Wilson hut, now operating on a temporary basis since the demise of the Works Progress Administration. The hut. under the joini spon sorship of the city and county, has been one of the chief centers of soldier recreation here. Under the new setup, it was indicated, civilian recreation would be added to its functions. Tlie city, has for some months, an application pending for a Lan ham act grant for recreation. The new application would supplant the present one and is expected to meet with better success. r French National Group Recognized^ By America WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—(£>) —America and Great Britain gave limited recognition tonight to the right of the French Committee of National Libera tion to administer the empire of fallen France but they stop ped short of calling the com mittee a government. In statement so similarly worded hat they showed evi dence of joint composition, per haps in the recent Quebec con ferences, the two governments chorused that it would be up to the people of France to choose their own government once the Nazis are routed. “The government of the Unit ed States,” said a statement is sued in President Roosevelt’s name, “recognizes the French Committee of National Libera tion as administering those French overseas territories which acknowledge its authori ty.” The British statement. in London, addel that recognition was accorded also to the com mittee’s “having assumed fuuc NAZIS DESTROY SWEDISH BOATS Neutral Country Has New Issue To Take Up With Hitler’s Regime STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26. — (JP) — Neutral Sweden tonight had a new issue to take up with Germany— the reported North Sea sinking of two Swedish fishing boats by three German destroyers. The Swedish foreign Office said naval authorities had started a swift investigation of the story told by fishermen of three other boats which, they said, managed to elude the Nazi attack that sent two down in flames off Denmark, with a possible loss of 12 lives. If confirmed, the foreign office said the government would con sider the case “extremely serious,” (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 7> ----i Mayor Cameron Will Review Camp Davis Soldiers On Parade si .Final preparations went for ward Thursday for the impres sive review to be given by the 50th AAA Brigade at Camp Davis at 4 P. M. Thursday afternoon in honor of Mayor Bruce Cameron of Wilmington. The review, a colorful fea ture of which will be a mass ing of the colors of ten batta lions amidst the marching groups. The ten battalions which will participate comprise the 50th Brigade. With Mayor Cameron and his staff on the reviewing stand will be Brig. Gen. Clare H. Armstrong, commanding gen eral. j>f the host brigade who is acting commanding general of the Anti - aircraft Artillery Training Center in the absence of Brig. Gen. James R. Town send. Other Camp Davis officials invited to attend the review in clude Brig. Gen. Bryan L. Mil burn, commandant of the An ti-Aircraft Artillery School, and Col. Adam E. Potts, camp commander. Following the review Gen. Armstrong will hold a tea in his quarters at camp for the various guests. Camp Davis Men Help County Farmers The Army — represented by a group of Camp Davis GI’s — took to the sun scorched corn fields oi' New Hanover county this week and rescued the vital feed crop of at least two dairy farm ers. Answering a call for aid trans mitted through the State mploy ment of Agriculture, a dozen men were granted three-day passes, un der recent War Department auth ority, and enthusiattically seized knives, pitchforks and other farm tools. There were indications that the farming venture of the GI’s would be the forerunner of a Itu’ger movement to help farmers of the area whose crops are facing ruin because of a serious farm labor shortage. “The Army is eager to cooper ate with the home, front which is i tions of the former French Na tional Committee in respect of the territories in the Levant.” United States recognition was made “subject to the military requirements of the Allied com manders.” While the British went a bit farther and spoke of “consultation with the com mittee” in applying the princi ple of committee authority, it was apparent that1 neither went as far as the committee had desired. It was three months ago that de Gaulle and Giraud official ly brought their combined for ces into existence as one move ment. After much wrangling the two factions sought through unity to gain authority and speed their common effort— liberation of France. Mr. Roosevelt said that while the United Spates was recog nizing the committee “as func tioning within specific limita tions during the war,” he speci fied: "This statement does not Continued on Page Eight; Col. 8) LIGHTNINGS RAKE ITALY’S TREETOPS Nazi Troops Struck Flat footed By Daring Day light Assault ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 26.— (£>)— Waves of Lightning fighters, shoot ing their wa; across Italy at tree top height, opened one of the war’s most successful air attacks yester day when Flying Fortresses and Liberators smashed Foggia air drome, its ten satellite fields and the railroad yards into smoking ruins. Completely surprising air and ground crews, the twin-tailed Light nings darted over their targets with cannon and machine-guns spitting a hail of lead which cut down 3waths of fleeing Germans and Italians and set strings of bright fires in hangars and planes. Then the Liberators and Fort resses, in successive waves, roared onto the scene and tumbled their heavy loads of high explosive and splinter bombs onto the fields which were left a ghastly chaos of craters, flaming buildings and blackened aircraft. At least 26 enemy planes were knocked out of the sky in the all-American attack, raising to 175 the total of Axis aircraft destroy ed in air battle since last Thurs day. Scores more were wrecked on the ground and from 200 to 300 dead and wounded were left in sprawling windrows, it was an nounced at Allied headquarters. The Axis planes caught flatfoot ed had been assembled in southern Italy to meet a possible invasion of Europe from the Mediterranean and included Junkers 88 bombers and Junkers 52 transports. The bombers represented the bulk of the once great bomber fleet which Field Marshal General Albert Kes selring, Axis air leader in Sicily, had based on the island until sys tematic bombing of his bases be fore the invasion there compelled him to withdraw them to the Ital ian mainland. The presence of the transports indicated the Axis had despaired of keeping either the railways or high ways of Italy open to military traffic in the face of the terrific Allied air attacks and therefore were dependent on aircraft to hapl personnel and materials. doing such a magnificent job in our war effort,” Colonel Aram E. Potts, camp commander, said in a letter to state agriculture de partment authorities, “and Ihope that you will feel free to call upon us in the future as your needs arise.” The group who “went back to the farm” this week did their chores at the farming establish ments of Otta and John Leeu wen berg, brothers who operate large dairy farms near Wilmington. Working an eight hour day, the GI’s were paid, under War De partment authority, the regular wage for such work. They also reveled in bounteous meals of homecooked food. Many a mouth was set to watering when the sold ier farmers came back to bar racks this week and told of the homemade pies, biscuits and oth ’ FRENZIED PUBLIC Mosquito Bombers Further Harass Berlin As Ten sion Increases GOVERNMENT MOVING BBC Says Nazis Arranging To Scatter Offices To East And South LONDON, Aug. 26.—(fP)—* Bombed and burned Berlin, harassed for the third night in a row by RAF Mosquito bombers, was tonight report ed being deserted by its panic stricken population with 500, 000 fugitives already in Po land. _ As Mosquitos kept up their “insomnia” tactics on the Ger man capital, the British Broadcasting System said the Nazi government was arrang ing to scatter itself to oc cupied territory to the east and southeast. Late this afternoon U. S. Eighth Air Force Marauder medium bombers, with RAF, Dominion and Allied Spit fires running interference, heaped new explosive destruc tion on Nazi airdromes at Caen in Normandy, a joint American-British communi que announced. The Spitfires then swept over northern France in a further offensive. Fveturning crews reported good bombing results. Two Fighters Blasted RCAF Spitfire blasted two ene my fighters out of the sky. No Allied planes were lost in the op erations. Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himm ler’s minister of the interior ap parently was headed for Prague, the BBC said in reporting the ex odus of a half million to Poland. The broadcast overseas declared the foreign ministry might move to Vienna, the ministry of educa tion to Posen and the labor min istry to Krakow. Other sections of the fugitive population was traveling to the Baltic states and Austria, the BBC stated. Many Germans were said to be entering Poland reluc tantly fearing for their lives when victory by the United Nations free the Poles. Nevertheless Berlin school chil dren were reportedly sent to the Posen and Lodz areas of Poland with teachers. Reports from neutral capitals de clared Berlin “lives in real panic” and the damage has been catas trophic. The RAF campaign is to keep Berlin residents in constant sus pense by nuisance raids between heavy blows. With big bomber forces grounded the Mosquitos sent the inhabitants of Hitler's strong hold scurrying to their shelters for more than half an hour in the middle of the night. Pilots of the lightning-fast Brit ish light bombers said fires were still burning in the city from the RAF’s 700 plane assault three days ago, and that the Germans put up a full scale anti-aircraft barrage. The RAF tactics not only kept the civilians in the city on edge, but forced the Nazis to keep their tired anti-aircraft gun crews at their posts hours on end. The alarms caused by the Mosquitos (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) er table fare which was like ‘‘Mom used to make.” Word of the farmers’ plight had reached Raleigh where I. C. Schaub, director of Agricultural Extension Service, took the matter under consideration. Remember ing War Department instructions that volunteers might be granted short furloughs or passes to help on. farms in emergencies, he com municated with R. W. Galphin, Agriculture Department county agent for New Hanover county in which the Leeuwenberg farms are located. Mr. Galphin came to Camp Davis and told Adam E. Potts, camp commander, of the cituation. Col. Potts, after conferring with camp adjutant, Lieut. Colonel C. J. Fox and Chief of Military Personnel, (Continued on Page Seven, Col. 3).