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SerVed By Leased Wire Of The ^ ^ Us utmngtim nntttuj Star --WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 The GI’s Turn Out To Help Local Farmers I privates Glenn Sehilice (left) and Paul Reiser cut corn on a local dairy farm. Soldiers Having Holiday Helping Local Farmers J pitching in on the home front with all they’ve got, sol f diers from Camp Davis have been rendering a vital service to .Yew Hanover county dairy farmers by helping them har vest their feed crop. And the G. I.’s, on a _ brief respite from Army routine, are having lots of fun doing it. Farm boys and city boys alike have been going about their work with a vengeance. For boys who have spent their lives on farms it means the satisfying of their nostalgia for rustic sounds and sights, and for the city boys it is a new and interesting adventure. The soldiers work eight hours a day and receive the refndar rate of pay for such kind of work. The maximum length of time they can work1 on a farm is three days. In response to a call for aid made by the State Department of Agriculture the first group of sol dier-farmers were issued 3-day passes, under recent War Depart ment authority, and sent out to work on the farms of John anc; Otto Leeuwenbeig near Wilming ton, one week ago. Both farmers have expressed their gratitude to the Army for the assistance given them, and were especially grateful to Col. Adam E. Potts, camp command er, for his whole-hearted coopera tion in helping to remedy the faim labor shortage in this vicin ity. “I’m going to convey my thanks to Col. Potts by letter,” Otto Leeu nenberg told the Camp Davis newspaper reporter. These boys have saved many thousands of pounds of feed. They came down here in the nick of time. I had only about ten days to vet in my feed crop. It doesn’t take long be fore corn becomes hard and starts to mold and so becomes unf.t for use as feed." Mr. Leeuwenberg was unstint mg m his praise of the soidiers. “These are as -fine a bunc. of boys as I've ever seen," he said. J don t suppose they are all farm boys, but from the way they about their woik, you'd say tney ill spen a good deal of lime on s farm.” the!1;! *GI S ,1hemseIves were en huswstic about their work and P°*e “ Rowing terms about, the all" th^6a S+they Were ^lung and u-re tn L,teresUnS things there nsie to see. JlZme of such things combinehl“S -!n<: °Perati°n of a b e or witnessing the birth n[ (Continued on page Eight; Col. 3) TAX ADVISORS TO AID PUBLIC Itinerary Is Mapped For Area; Individuals To Be Helped With Returns A formal itinerary has been : mapped for individual taxpayers I to file declarations of income for the current year, Raymond D. Christman, chief zone deputy, said Sunday and announced that the pe riod for deputies to assist Wilming ton taxpayers is set for Septem ber 9-15. Deputies will be locat ed at 217 postoffice building. Christman said he will be at the county tax office at Southport on September 1; the postoffice build ing at Shallotte, September 2: post office building at Tabor City, Sep tember 3; R. R. Koons’ office in Chadbourn, September 4; sheriff’s office in Elizabethtown. September 6; and the Whiteville internal revenue office, located in the post office building, September 7 and 8. He will return to Wilmington for the remainder of the filing period. “The public,” Christman declar ed, “can greatly facilitate matters during the filing period by discuss ing their liability for filing with their employers, because the law requires that the liability for a single preson, not head of a fami ly, begins at $2,700.” He said “this means that any person who occupies such a single status, whose income is entirely (Continued on Page 2; Column 1 The Army’s New ‘Thunderbolt’ Fighters Come To Wilmington tf Wn’i-th® past week, resideftts er Planp tuh „A 'my s latest fight 8s a fp».’ -leu P'47 “Thunderbolt,” lie city UI them have roared over URde/th?’ Alr Force ^ghter group Dyke p command of Colonel EluethenthaieS.haS 3t tto0se0nkeeneper’ 3 tal1, lean man a flier i - 1 eyes stamP him for and hp m.3 r®gular Command pilot ing into nf be seen any day clim derbolt- fthe cockPit of a “Thun A grari. f°r a fllght with his pilots, fields h! °f Brooks and Kelly Corps entered the Army Air lf.30 s,,j , a second lieutenant in 5ince that t?meerVed “ 3CtiVe dUty dude dutv6- r\Pent activities in member of r Newfoundland as a staff anH f General Gerald Brant’s ment herePrh°r 4° th‘S neW assign’ cer of fh ',Jle was executive offi ce oof Fl,rst Fighter Command, to allow k IS 3 man who refuses a desk wh'?Stlf t0 become tied to while his boys fight in the Colonel Dyke F. Meyer sky. He rises at six o’clock every morning and may be seen in the afternoon taking a cross country run “just to keep in trim.” He is an excellent marksman with all types of firearms and holds the pistol record for his group. He is an engineering enthusiast and spends much time designing labor saving devices to further his first love—aviation. The colonel is un married. When questioned aljout his flock of fliers, he waxed, elequent over the ability of American pilots. “They are the finest in the world and they’re willing to fight.” “I have been anxious for some time to take a fighter group into the theater of combat,” he said, “and I am fully aware of the big task ahead in training such a group. However, when I take this group to meet the enemy, I hope to have every pilot well trained in fighter tactics and every enlisted man thoroughly prepared to do his job. I hope to have my men in per fect physical condition, familiar with the weapons of war and train (Continued on Page 2; Column 3) NO GAS INCREASE 1 FOR EAST COAST September 1 Will Not See Extra Quota; May Come Later, Says OPA WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.— (Si Gasoline rations in the East defi nitely will not oe increased Sept. 1, the government director of mo tor fuel rationing said today. The bigger allotment is still hopefully planned, he added, ‘ but it may take weeks—it may even be months.” He said he could not answer a question whether the prohibition against pleasure shaving would be lifted, but by specifying that his inability to r ply was a matter of “today” he lent implied support to expectations that the ban would be raised Wednesday. The information came from Richard C. Harrison, chief of the gasoline rationing section of the Office of Price Administration in a broadcast interview on the Blue network (This Is Official). Harrison told his interlocutor that "B” and “C” ration card holders woud fare no better in the matter of an increase September 1 than motorists on “A” rations. “Gas stocks in the East are low,” he explained, “As a matter of fact, over a period of four weeks, the stocks have declined.” He said the two-weeks-old cut from foui to three gallons per ra tion in tne Middle West and cou pon in the Middlewest and South west was saving 50,000 barrels of fuel a day and ‘ as the decrease of gas consumption in those states creates a surplus of gasoline stocks, which can at last be moved east for civilian use, we hope most certainly to increase the A ration in the east. Harrison restated Friday night’s announcement that the special allowance of five gallons for fur lough driving by service men would be reinstated Sept. 1, and reminded “B” and “C ’ book hold ers that they have only two days left in which to exchange them for new type books. It was generally expected here that a formal order ending the ban on pleasure driving in the East would be delayed until the last practicable moment, probab ly Monday, to head off any ten (Continued on Page 5; Column 8) Toe Of Italy Is Apparently Free Of Nazis Allied Air Units Increase Intensity Of Round The-Clock Raids TARANTO IS BLASTED Airforce Officials Reluc tant To Comment On Evacuation Story ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 29.—(/P)—Allied air un its increased the intensity of their 'round-the-clock blows against southern and central Italy yesterday and last night with bombing raids extend ing to the north of Rome and returning fliers said the Ital ian toe appeared to have been deserted by the enemy. Heavy and medium bomb ers from North African bases again concentrated on vital -ail centers along the western side of the mainland while American four-enerined Liber ators from the Middle East ioined in tlje offensive bv at tacking shipping and rail in stallations at Taranto, impor tant naval base on the Italian heel. Large Cruiser Hit The Liberators, which attacked in two waves, scored a direct hit on a large cruiser, from which heavy black smoke was seen to rise, and a near miss on a me dium sized vessel believed to be a transport. A U. S. Ninth Air Force com munique from Cairo said “par ticularly heavy damage was done to railway installations’’ at Taran to. with one direct hit on the main station and another on a freight train in the yards which exploded and burned. Other bursts were seen on sidings, repair shops and freight depots and in the main barracks area. The Cairo bulletin said smoke rising from the target could be seen for 25 miles. The Taranto raid followed a night attack from the Middle East by RAF Liberators and Halifaxes, which pounded Crotone on the sole of the Italian boot, hitting a chem ical works, starting fires and re turning without loss. American Flying Fortresses from North Africa made the day’s deep (Continued on Page 5; Column 3) *Save Your Tin Cans To Save A Soldier's Life,' Is New Slogan ATLANTA, Aug. 29.—UB—“Save your tin cans to save a soldier’s life." This was the call today from the regional salvage office of the War Production Board to housewives throughout the eight-state area. L. F. Walters, regional salvage manager, said the Southeastern states were saving only a small portion of the tin cans used and called attention to the new use found for tin on the battlefield. In addition to being used in mak ing containers for blood plasma, the government has begun using tin in production of “syrettes,” a tin container that goes in to the first aid kit ol every soldier on the battlefield. Two average tin cans contain enough tin to make a syrette, said Walters, “and the housewife should remember when she starts to throw away a tin can she has just emptied, that it could be half the means of saving a soldier’s life.” The “syrette” contains a dose of morphine, sufficient to deaden pain in case of a serious wound from 10 to 14 hours. WEATHER FORECAST: North Carolina: Continued hot 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., 72— 7:30 a. m., 72; 1:30 p. m. 84; 7:30 p. m., 70. Maximum 87; Minimum 70; Mean 78; Normal 76. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m., 95; 7:30 a. m., 93; 1:30 p. m., 75; 7:30 p. m., 98. PRECIPTION Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.81 inches. Total since the first of the month, 5.79 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published by u S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) High Low Wilmington - 9$* 4:22a Masonboro Inlet - 7:15a' 1:13a Sunrise, 5:44 a. m. Sunset, 6:41 p. m.; Moonrise, 5:25 a. ra.; Moonset, 6:50 p. m. Cape Fear River stage at Fayette ville on Sunday, at 8 a. m., 9:85 feet. DANES SCUTTLE FLEET UNITS AS NAZIS IMPOSE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP OVER COUNTRY 6,000 Nazis Are Killed As Red Army Plunges On LONDON, Monday, Aug. 30— UP)—Russia’s southern armies plunging toward the Dnieper river killed 6,000 Germans and captured nearly 100 villages yesterday in gains of four to nine miles, Moscow announc ed early today, amid strong in dications that Axis lines were cracking in the huge Donets basin. Soviet airmen reported the Germans were blowing up am munition dumps and stores southwest of Voroshilovgrad in the Donets basin preparatory to retreat. A communique also an nounced that one Russian form ation alone had killed 2,000 Ger mans and was “forging ahead, crushing enemy manpower and equipment,” in that area. Hundreds of Germans were surrendering en masse on the 450-mile front between Bry ansk and Voroshilovgrad, Mos cow said, as the Red army con FATHERS UNDER RECLASSIFICATION State Draft Official Gives Order To Check Those In Non-War Jobs RALEIGH, Aug. 29.—(A1)—Brig. Gen. J. V. B. Metts, state selec tive service officer, today issued directives to all local draft boards to begin reclassifying in 1-A all fathers who are not in essential work, or whose service in the armed forces would not work un due hardship on the registrant’s family. General Metts said that recent orders of national draft headquar ters require the reclassification of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers “without regard to their eligibility for a 3-A classification.” He added that Selective Service considers it has given fair warn ing to fathers who have depend ent children to remove them selves from non-deferrable activ ities or face the prospect of early induction. In his directive to the local boards, General Metts said that ‘registrants not in essential war work should not be surprised if they receive notice that they have been reclassified in class 1-A.” Essential farmers, war workers, or fathers whose work is in sup port of the war effort are in no danger of reclassification, he said. The fact that a pre-Pearl Har (Continued on Page 5; Column 2) CGA UNITNAMES DIVISION HEADS New Roster Of Officers Approved At Supper Meeting Saturday More than 100 members of the Cape Fear division of the Coast Guard auxiliary, meeting for a buf fet supper at Stacy’s tavern on the Carolina Beach road Saturday night, approved by acclaim a new roster of officers for the division which is composed of the Wilming ton and Wrightsville flotillas. Lieut. Louis Hanson, head of the auxiliary for the Sixth Naval dis trict, also revealed at the meet ing that John C. Wessel, Jr., a member of the auxiliary in addi tion to his duties as a lawyer and as municipal juvenile judge, has been commissioned as a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Coast Guard reserve and will leave for duty shortly. The new division officers, ap proved at the meeting, are Tom Murrell, captain; Earl Godwin, vice captain; and Albert Perry, junior commander. Officers for Flotilla I are Bob Williams, commander; Walter Webb, vice-commander; and Gar land S. Palmer, junior commander. For Hotilla II, Julian Taylor, Jr. commander; Bruce Poisson, vice commander; and Knight Davis, junior commander. Speakers at the meeting, the first supper meeting held by the auxiliary in recent months, includ ed Lieut. Hanson, who headed the division prior to taking over as di rector of the auxiliary for the dis trict: Lieut. - Commander R. W. Thresher, captain of the port of Wilmington; Lieut. S. Bun Frink, assistant captain of the port; and (Continued on Page 5; Column 8) tinned to display an unparal leled summer punch. A great wheeling movement west and south of Kharkov threatened perhaps 800,000 Ger mans in the extended Donets basin-Kuban salient southeast of Kharkov. The Germans were throwing construction battalions and oth er rearguard units into des perate fighting to hold their Donets lines. If they are forc ed to withdraw they face a 200 mile retreat westward to the Dnieper river bend. Fifty villages fell to the Rus sians west and south of Khar kov, where gains up to 7 1-2 miles were made, the Russians said. Among the towns captur ed was Lyubotin, a rail junc tion 25 miles due west of Khar kov. Other Russian units that had swung to the northwest, however, were driving down (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) ALLIED SEA LOSS DROPPING IN ’43 Weekly Average Just Over 3 Ships During First 35 Weeks In Year (By The Associated Press) Announcing sinkings of United Nations and neutral shipping in the Wester Atlantic in the first 35 weeks of 1943 were slightly more than three a week, in contrast to the average of 10 weekly in the first year of the war. An Associated Press tabulation showed merchant ship losses of non-Axis powers, in these waters have aggregated 686 ships since Pearl Harbor. Last week the Navy announced no new sinkings in the Western Atlantic, the first time since June that such a weekly re port has been issued. Indicative of the stepped-up de fense of the sea lanes was the re port by the Army Air Forces anti submarine command, claiming the almost certain destruction of five submarines and heavy damage to five others in recent Atlantic bat tles between U-Boats and B-24 Lib erators. Marine underwriters pointed to current war risk insurance rates —in some cases only about seven per cent as high as the charges in August, 1942—as corroboration of the military and naval estimate of the improvement in the shipping situation.” E. R. King, secretary of the American Cargo War Risk Rein surance Exchange, said the lower rates in the group’s latest sched ule, the 93rd issued since its form ation in 1939, “represent our idea of present shipping risks.” King cited as evidence of the present status of the battle of the Atlantic the premium rate on car goes bound from Port Everglades, Fla., to Havana, now 75 cents for each $100 of insurance, or about 7 percent of the $10 rate in effect a year ago. Similarly, he said premiums on New Orleans to Chile cargoes have been reduced from 15.5 per cent to two per cent of value and on New (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) r—-—1 Interned Bv Nazis King Christian X GEN. BLAMEY OUT FOR JAP ‘DEATH’ American And Australian Troops Now At Edge Of Salamaua Airbase ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 29—(fP)—Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, commanding the Allied land forc es in New Guinea, is in the field for the “kill” at Salamaua, Gener al MacArthur’s headquarters dis closed today. General Blarney’s American and Australian troops now stand at the southwestern edge of the airdrome and are cautiously infiltrating the Japanese positions. Having driven the enemy out of difficult mountain positions, the U lied troops are fighting on both sides of the Francisco river which flows just south of the airfield. Its capture, which would enable Allied bombers to be escorted by fighters on daylight raids against Japanese bases on nearby New Britain, is believed imminent. Today’s communique from Gen eral MacArthur dealt almost en tirely with air action both in the New Guinea sector and over the Solomons. The biggest action, which occurred Thursday, was a strong raid by Liberators, Corsairs and Kittihawks on the enemy air base of Kahili, on southern Gougan ville. During a raid on the air drome, 30 Japanese interceptors took on the Americans in running battles. Fourteen enemy planes were downed. There was no men tion of any American losses. On the day of that raid, other bombers blasted barges along the Kula gulf which might supply Ja pan’s air base at Vila on Kolom bangara. Barges are Villa's main source of supply now that Ameri cans occupy Vella Lavella above (Continued on Page 5; Column 3) KING IS INTERNED Violent Fighting Rage* In Copenhagen Barracks; 45 Ships Sunk FRESH TROOPS SENT IN Martial Law Proclaimed And Severe Penalties Are Set Forth STOCKHOLM, Aug. 29.^ (fP)—Germany clamped down a military dictatorship over Denmark today, but the ef fort to crush the revolting Danes met violent resistance immediately with Gel-man troops.. Forty-five ships were scut tled as the battle raged in Co penhagen naval yard with Nazis storming in vainly try ing to prevent the destruc tion, said one Danish witness who escaped to Sweden. Fighting also was reported in Copenhagen barracks between the Gemrans and royal guard this afternoon. Fresh German toops, tanks, planes and armored cars were flung into the strategic little kingdom swept by rebellion and sabotage. Nazi Gen. Hermann von Hannecken proclaimed mar tial law, threatening ruthless enforcement of his decrees. Nine Vessels Escape Foe Nine Danish ships — two small destroyers, six torpedo boats, and a minesweeper — fled to Sweden, escaping the Nazi screws tighten ed upon the nation of 4,000,000 peo ple who occupy the peninsula and (islands dividing the North and Baltic seas. The Germans were taking no chances of losing control in this country which affords the short est invasion highway by land to Berlin. Venerable King Christian X, who will be 73 next month, was in terned in Sogenfri astle outside Copenhagen, and other govern ment leaders resigned and were arrested after scorning an eight point German ultimatum, said ad vices seeping through a strict communications blackout. The Danish scuttling followed on a smaller scale the blazing French example when the Germans pour ed into Toulon last November to overrun all France in a vain bid to seize the French fleet. Violent explosions shook the Co penhagen harbor area in the mur ky pre-dawn overcast as the Danes blew up ammunition dumps and blasted holes in ship hulls to send them to the bottom. The detonations drowned out machinegun and rifle shots and the rumble of tanks as Danes and Germans clashed on the shore. Fires started by the explosions cast a thick smoke pall over the harbor. (‘‘Jane’s fighting ships” lists the Danish navy as having two coast al defense ships — the Niels Iuel of 3,800 tons and Peder Skram of 1,500 tons — which lie between a (Continued on Page 5; Column 5) Scramble For Power In Bulgaria To Set Balkans Ablaze Is Seen LONDON, Aug. 29.—UPl—A mad scramble for power sufficient to set the Balkans ablaze following the mysterious death of King Bor is of Bulgaria was predicted today by London morning newspapers as Germany faced collaboration problems 1,100 miles apart across subjugated Europe. In addition to keeping sharp watch on Bulgaria, bomb shaken Germany had to crush a “people’s revolt” in Denmark thereby ing the fiction that the little Scan dinavian country was a collabora tor and a happy example of the model Nazi vassal state. The Moscow radio asserted that Hitler had called a conference of the heads of all satellite states “in order to discuss the interna tional situation” possibly as a re sult of the Danish-Balkan manifes tations. (The British radio said crowds had demonstrated for peace on the streets of Sofia and that the Nazi embassy in the Bulgarian capital had been stoned. (The broadcast, recorded by U. S. government monitors, declared A King Boris of Bulgaria that the death of King Boris had precipitated a crisis in Bulgaria 4 and that all communications with foreign countries had been sus pended. The peace demonstrators were reported to have shouted de mands for the resignation of Pre mier Bogdan Philov.) Mourning was displayed in Axis capitals for Boris, but Radio France reported from an unstated source that there were anti-Fas cist demonstrations when the king’s death was announced in So fia. Balkan dispatches to the Stock holm newspaper Svenska Dagblad et reported that a drastic switch in Bulgarian foreign policy from collaboration with Germany to friendship with Russia was ex pected. King Boris’ death raised the question of whether there was any one in the Bulgar royal family who would be able to hold the na tion together, and whether Pre mier Philov or the royal council were strong enough to keep the country’s German policy going. King Boris, once described by (Continued on Page 2; Column 6)
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