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307 NAZI PLANES BLASTED BY U. S. EIGHTH AIRFORCE TWO RAIDS TAKE TOLL First Anniversary Of Op erations In Europe Is Celebrated LONDON, Aug. 29—(IP)—The U. S.Eighth Air Force celebrated its first anniversary of operations in the European theater by destroy ing 307 enemy fighters in raids against two German targets Aug. 17, European theater headquarters announced today. Fortresses attacking the Mes serchmitt factory at Regensburg destroyed 140 planes in the air and subsequently flew a “shuttle run” to temporary bases in North Africa. It was previously announced that a Fortress formation attacking the ball and roller bearing plant at Schweinfurt on the same day de stroyed 147 fighters and 20 more were brought down by Tunderbolts in a supporting operation. Commenting on the Regensburg operation, Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson, commanding the Eighth Air Force bomber command, said. “Our bomber crews destroyed one of Germany’s most important aircraft factories, one which had a potential production of more than 1,000 fighters over the next six months “They have also destroyed 140 of the enemy’s first line operation al fighter planes in addition to the number probably destroyed or damage. This was achieved at a cost of 23 bombers and less than 200 men listed as missing in ac tion. “It was a great accomplish ment.” It was pointed out that the an nounced toll of Nazi planes did not include a number of newly com pleted fighters destroyed on the ground at Reinsburg. The Fortresses fought a running battle from Antwerp to the Alps with relays of enemy fighters. The previous high for Eighth Air Force heavy bombers was 87 fight ers destroyed June 11, when Wil helmshaven and Cuxhaven w'ere raided. TT TAX ADVISORS TO AID PUBLIC (Continued from Page One) made up of salaries or commis sions, which will amount to less than $2,700 during 1943 is not re quired to file. And by the same rule, a married man living with his wife w'hose income in wages or salaries, both husband and wife, amounts to $3,500 or less is not re quired to make a declaration.” Continuing he said these amounts do not apply when such persons enjoy additional income from oth er sources, explaining that if such a married couple has a total wage income of, for instance, $1,200, an'1 in addition have rents or oth er income, a declaration would be required, and if single and not; head of a family the personal ex emption is reduced to $500. T. D. 5291 provides that mem bers of the military or naval for ces of the United States, who are in active service on September 15, will not be required to file a declaration. 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The two French chiefs informed President Roosevelt of their “real satisfaction” at the United States’ decision and expressions of sym pathy, adding that these would re inforce collaboration between the Allies and the French nation. The cable to Churchill declared that “the victory which is coming and of which we have never des paired will find the people of the two nations closely united in peace.” The message to Stalin praised the “magnificent action of the people and of the heroic armies of the So viet Union” in contributing so lar gely to common victory. Prime Minister W. L. MacKen !zie King also was sent a message expressing “particular apprecia tion” over Canada’s recognition. The liberation committee releas ed the texts of recognition declara tions by the governments-in-exile of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Luxem burg, The Nehterlands, Belgium, and Yugoslavia. All except Poland | and Belgium took that step in June, some two months before Washington, London and Moscow acted. The six exiled governments used the form requested by the French committee, stating it was recogni zed as “the organization qualified to ensure the conduct of the French war effort within the framework of inter-allied cooperation as well as the administration and defense of all French interests.” French opinion continues to re gard the Soviet action as the most generous of any major Allied pow er, while the restrictions which hedged American recognition were seen as in sharp contract to it. AFL Official Outlines Plan F or Post-W ar Work NEW YORK, Aug. 29—(/PH-Sec retary-Treasurer George Meany of the American Federation of Labor said today government and private industry must work together and prevent any threatened postwar de pression. “We of the American Federation of Labor,” said Meany in a speech broadcast by NBC, “refuse to ac cept the theory that a depression is inevitable after the war. “We do not have to have a de pression and, as a matter of fact, we must not have a depression.” Meany said the AFL had a post war program which called for providing jobs “not only for the demobilized fighting men but also for the millions of men and wom en who are now working in war plants and will require new jobs when peace comes.” Meany gave no details of the AFL postwar plan, except to say “private industry must supply the bulk of the jobs after the war ends,” and that government also would have an important part to play. “The government,” he said, “has the responsibility of encour aging industrial expansion. The American Federation of Labor holds that the government should not only permit but stimulate op portunities to make a reasonable and fair profit. An enterprise which makes a profit is willing to ex pand. Expansion spells more jobs, and that is what labor will want.” In addition, Meany said, all stages of government—federal, state, county, municipal—should plan postwar public works projects now and labor and management in private enterprise “should start sitting down together to try to find ways and means of increasing peacetime production and achiev ing full employment.” Meany expressed belief failure to “get beyond the talking stage” on postwar planning during the first world war caused much “un employment, suffering and disil lusionment” afterwards. He said two reasons the AFL re fused the inevitability of a post war depression was expected de mand for vast private housing con struction and tremendous demands for consumer goods which “have practically vanished from the shelves of our retailers through out the country.” _rr_ ARMY’S NEW P-47 COMES TO COUNTY (Continued from Page One) ed in the art of being a soldier. 1 expect my men to be able to cope with any situation that may arise. I know that this fighter group will account for itself.” The group is still in its organiza tional stage. Colonel Meyer has as his executive officer a young flier who has already accounted for many Jap Zero fighters in the Pacific theater—Major Andrew J. Reynolds. The squadrons compris ing the fighter group are com manded by: Capt. John H. Pease, who spent 15 months in the Aleu tians as a fighter pilot; Capt. Har old N. Holt, who has served a year as a fighter pilot in Panama; and Capt. James L. Edminster, who has seen two years active duty in Panama. The group adjutant, Lieutenant J. L. Rhodie, takes a personal in terest in every man in the outfit and he makes it a point to have a personal interview with each new man as he enters the group. Lieutenant Rhodie and three oth er officers of the group comprise a ‘‘little Columbia club” at the field, as all four attended Columbia university. The other members of this select set are: Capt. Charles Campbell, medical officer; Lieut. Jams Welles, statistical officer; and Lieut. Robert Legg, weather officer. It is hoped by group authorities that the people of Wilmington will show a great interest in their ac tivities while here. ' NAM SAYS WAGES EXCEEDING COSTS Manufacturers Declare Sal aries Rising Faster Than Prices NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—(A?)—The National Association of Manufac turers reported today that “wages paid by manufacturers have been rising more rapidly than the cost of living.” In its publication, “Industry’s View,” the manufacturers group asserted figures compiled by the bureau of labor statistics ‘“show that since August 1939 average weekly wages of workers in man ufacturing establishments through out the country have gone up 82.4 per cent and living costs in this pe riod (August 1939 to June 1943) have increased less than 27 per cent.” The NAM added: “While price increases have been given much publicity, the sharp gains in wages usually have been ignored in published reports. Failure to consider wage increas es along with increases in livng costs has distorted the truth, has created confusion and has led to erroneous conclusions.” Declaring that the “main agita tion for pay boosts come from or ganized groups concentrated in manufacturing industries,” the NAM asserted factory workers comprised less than 40 per cent of the nation’s non-agricultural work ers and added: “If there are present wage in justices they are to be found in the white collar groups — certain ly not among the manufacturing workers.” The association said that man ufacturers’ profit, expressed as a per centage of gross receipts in 1942, was 34 per cent smaller than in 1929 and 24 per cent smaller than in 1941. Among conclusions drawn by the NAM was one that “any further in crease in salaries and wages will boost the inflationary spiral by increasing prices, which in turn will be used as the basis for de manding still larger wage rises.” 6,000 NAZISM UNDER RED DRIVE (Continued from Page One) the Psel-Vorksla river valleys to envelop Poltava, big Axis base 85 miles southwest of Kharkov on the approaches to the Dnieper river bend. Forty villages were seized below Bryansk, where the Russians said their men beat off eight consecu tive counter-attacks and killed 1,(00 Germans west of Sevsk. The com munique spoke of “wearing down the enemy” in that sector. South of Sevsk the Russians over ran 16 villages and captured a strongly fortified enemy defense line. Four hundred Germans fell in that one engagement, said the communique recorded by the So viet monitor. In a neighboring sec tor “a company of Germans (about 200 men) laid down their arms and surrendered.” Thirty-four German planes were shot down in the embattled Sevsk salient, where a break-through to the Bryansk-Kiev railway would shatter German communications between the southern and central fronts. This toll was part of the 50 reported destroyed during the day for a two-day bag of 132 on all fronts. The Russians also knocked out 80 tanks during the day, Moscow’s bulletin said, on the basis of in complete reports. That made a two day total of 190 enemy tanks de stroyed. In addition to these impressive figures on destroyed German equip ment, the Russians said their troops -aptured four or more am munition dumps and hundreds of guns of various caliber. Exceptionally heavy fighting was encountered southwest of Zmiev, 20 miles below Kharkov, where the Russians apparently were attempt ing to seal off the thousands of hard-pressed Germans in the Don ets salient. Zmiev is 50 miles north of Lozovaya, a junction on a major railway supplying the Germans to the southeast. "Southwest of Zmiev our troops advanced and captured several populated places,” the communi que said. “The Germans are cling ing to intermediate lines, resisting by heavy firing and frequently making counter-attacks. Our units beat off an enemy counter-attack and wiped out no less than a bat talion of Hitlerites.” Berlin broadcasts recorded by the Associated Press acknowled ged Russian break-throughs in the south, saying the Soviets were em ploying “masses of tanks and in fantry.” The broadcast also said the Russians had attacked Nazi lines between Smolensk and Vyaz ma, on the central front west of Moscow. ALLIED VESSEL LOSS DROPS IN PAST YEAR (Continued from Page One) York to River Plate, South Ameri ca, shipments, from 25 per cent to five per cent. ■xr Hogs will produce meat and lard weighing about 65 percent of their live weight, and other meat ani mals will produce about. 45 percent of their live weight in the form of meat. State Department Official Says Refugees To Pick Otvn Leadersh ip WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—UP)— This government’s policy toward refugee groups claiming to repre sent the countries from which they come is based on determination to let peoples pick their own lead ers when they can do so freely, Adolf A. Berle, Jr., assistant sec retary of state, said today. Replying to an inquiry of the American Council on Public Af fairs, Berle said in a letter made public by the State Department that Europeans organized outside their native countries could not be judged merely on the basis of the political names they call each oth er. “Conservatives who have con sistently and vigorously fought Fascism,” he said, ‘‘are often at tacked by groups who also are fighting Fascism but who are pleading for particular reforms, and these in turn are commonly accused of being reactionary or even Fascist by the more radical groups.” The Council on Public Affairs, through its secretary, M. B. Schnapper, had inquired about as sertions it said were recently made “that the Department of State has pursued a policy of re buffing and ignoring exiled lead ers who look to a democratic re vitalization of Europe and that, on the other hand, it has been fa vorably disposed toward highly conservative and reactionary per sons who are desirous of retain ing the evils of pre-war Europe The council said that such charges have been particularly emphatic of late in connection with the department’s policy with regard to Italy. Schnapper said he did not believe them but asked clarification. In his reply, Berle called such charges “amazing” and said that refugees from Europe had been admitted to safety in this country and had here stated their views freely through American free speech and press “to an extent not permitted by any other coun try on earth.” “Leaders and groups of all shades of thought have sought here the refuge which we have gladly offered,” he said. “Many of them have asked to be recognized or accepted or dealt with as rep resenting the country from which they came. Their claims . . . are often disputed by other leaders and groups of tne same nationali ty . . . these claims properly ought to be settled by the people of their own country, not by the State Department. “The government of the United States has been glad to receive the suggestions, the ideas, the plans, of all these ‘free’ move ments and their leaders. But de cision upon their claims rests not in the hands of this government, but in the hands of their own peo ple.” Berle said that “many wild yarns, hardly worth the trouble of denying,” had apparently been circulated by some foreign politi cal personages—he did not name them—enjoying American hospital ity. One such, he said, was a rumor that Italian Count Ciano was in the United States, another, that a plan for a “Catholic Axis” was being elaborated in Washington; a third, that some kind of Fascist federation of eastern Europe was being aimed against Soviet Russia. “They merit no attention,” he concluded. Danes Scuttle Many Fleet Units As Country Put Under War Laws (Continued From Page One) destroyer and cruiser in size. 34 tordepo boats, 12 submarines, three minesweepers, and other pa trol and depot ships.) A traveler on a ferry boat reaching Helsingborg from Den mark said he had heard that the Danish royal guard was fighting Germans in the barracks at the capital. German planes circled over Copenhagen all day in huge numbers in ominous patrol. The ships that escaped to Swe den carried about 400 persons, many of them army and navy of ficers and personnel, and there was speculation whether some gov ernment members might have es caped. It was believed the mili tary personnel will be interned. All the ships docked at Lands krona, except for one torpedo boat which eluded guns of a German submarine and airplane before racing into Malmo on the south ern tip of Sweden. While the fate of King Christian and the cabinet was uncertain, Danes in Sweden considered it likely they were all under house arrest, and one report via Malmo said German soldiers had occu pied Sorgenfri castle. Denmark, once famed for its butter and bacon production, had been under German sway since the almost bloodless occupation April 9, 1940, but now Danish courts and the government were swept aside by von Hannecken, al ready hated by the Danes. He is known as a "‘Goering man.” His decree putting the country entirely under the Nazi war boot came in a broadcast proclamation at 4:10 a. m. today asserting that “recent disturbances have shown that Danish authorities are no longer in a position to maintain law and order.” and that “disturb ances created by enemy agentsi are directly pointed at German armed forces.” The decree forbade all strikes, imposed a curfew at dusk, banned civil communications, and declar ed that “all incitement to strike to the detriment of German armed forces will be considered, as an en emy act and will usually be pun ished by death. “Infringement of these regula tions will be dealt with by Ger man military courts. “Against acts of violence, illegal assemblies, etc., ruthless use of arms will be made.” All assemblies of more than five persons in public or private were Foggia Wrecked A three-pronged air blow against Foggia, Italy’s largest air base, and its ten satellite fields by Am erican planes has left them a mass of wreckage. Flying from bases in Africa, P-38 fighters swooped down to disrupt the defenses of the fields. . Then came huge armadas of Flying Fortresses and Libera tors to drop tons of explosives. (In ternational) forbidden, with church ser’firr the only exception. The position of German Minister Werner Best, who had followed a policy of liberal collaboration with the Danes, was not clear. He was reported to have declared after Danish rejections of his ultimatum that “I’m a dead man in Berlin. My policy has failed.” Von Han necken’s decree put most of the ultimatum into effect. Thus Denmark, once Hitler’s so called “model protectorate,” join ed Norway, Holland, Belgium, Cze choslovakia and other European countries under Nazi oppression. But whether the Germans will have any more success there than in the other countries in suppress ing sabotage of their rule and the war effort is considered doubtful in view of the violent new mood of the usually complacer*; Danes. Danes in Stockholm said there was every indication that their countrymen would continue, de spite the threat of the death pen alty for such acts. Stockholm’s Aftontidningen re ported serious disturbances in Co penhagen Saturday night with sev eral persons killed and a number wounded in riots. A number of per sons also were reported killed in Aalborg. That the Germans themselves anticipated a continuation of the “people’s revolt” which flared in to the open August 16 with wide spread riots, general strikes and sabotage was seen in the procla mation ordering German soldiers to fire without warning or consid eration to crush disturbances. On August 21, the day that the Danish state council issued an ap peal for “calm and order,” Ger man tanks and armored cars mounting machine guns rolled in to Copenhagen. Since then they’ve kept up regular patrols. New con tingents came into the capital Sat urday. Reports from Malmo said explo sions could be heard today from the Danish coast. The Nazis dug out their stereo typed technique for making extra- j ordinary moves — reminiscent of the days of 1940 and 1941 — when they cut off all communications with Denmark yesterday afternoon and set up machinery to enforce martial law. Then came von Han necken’s proclamation. This decision to take over ad ministration of the country — with Danish civil servants instructed to stay on their Jobs under German officers — came after the govern ment of Premier Eric Scavenius flatly rejected the drastic ultima tum presented by Best on Satur day. Best had been in Germany to receive instructions on combat ting the resistance, and one report said he conferred with Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, whose ruthless iron-hand methods were detected in the measures newly in voked in Denmark. Travelers reported that the Dan ish cabinet resigned on presenta tion of the demands, and there was a rumor that King Christian had threatened to abdicate if the government bowed to the ultima tum. The eight points of the ultima tum were said to have included: Declaration of a martial law in the country; military tribunals with power to impose the death penalty on saboteurs; surrender by Danes of all firearms and am munition; a ban on strikes and a strict curfew; a fine of 1,000,000 Danish crowns on residents of Odense for rioting that killed one German officer; punishment of Danes who assault other Danes working with Germans; a ban on meetings and assemblies; com plete Nazi control of the Danish press. -—v_ BALKAN REVOLT MAY BE COMING (Continued From Page One) (Continued From Page One) Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the “traitor king,” had follow ed a policy of double dealing with the Germans, yielding troops to fight Yugoslav guerrillas and Greeks but not to fight Russia. He was able to keep the war-weary country in the Axis camp, how ever, despite the feelings of the people who always have looked up to “mother Russia’’ for the role played by the Czars in the strug gles for Bulgarian independence. Boris never had dared, howev er, to lead his country into form al war with Russia although he had declared war on Britain and the United States. The new king, Simeon II, is six years-old, and King Boris’ broth er, Prince Kyril, never has dem onstrated the slightest trace of the late king’s political and adminis trative shrewdness. All liberal and democratic par ties in Bulgaria are suppressed, but three main ones are known to be continuing their existence underground. In Turkey there was speculation that the change of Bulgarian kings raised three possibilities. 1— Orderly establishment of a regency under German protection. 2— An army coup d’etat through the Bulgarian army and Bulgarian national police to place the coun try entirely in tne hands of Berlin. 3— A popular uprising which would overthrow the monarchy and establish a Republican or So cialist government under the sway of Russia. -V Obituaries MRS. RUTH STARLING Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Starling, of Winter Park, will be conducted at three o’clock Mon day afternoon at Sixth Street Ad vent Christian church by the Rev. James Lee, the Rev. George San ders, and the Rev. A. C. Thorpe. Burial will follow in Oakdale ceme tery. Active pallbearers will be David King, George Rackley, Marion Pe terson, Charley Rivenbark, Walter Glenn, and James Ezzell. Honorary pallbearers will be Preston King, T. C. Taylor, R. C. Pierce, and S. C. King. The remains will lie at the church from 1 p. m. until the hour of the funeral service. Mrs. Starling, wife of City Fire man A. J. Starling, Jr., died in James Walker Memorial hospital at 9:45 p. m. Friday, less than an hour after she had been crush ed between two automobiles which collied head-on on the Wrightsville Beach highway at Winter Park. Has Compartment for Thermos Bottle LUNCH BOX fl. Pyroxylin coated to keep it moistureproof. Wide canvas strap and sturdy metal clasp. Space at the en 0 identification card. Tiretfottt S North Front St. Store Hours 9 to 5:30—Sat. 9 to 7 Phone LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF FIRESTONE EVERY MONDAY EVENING OVER N. B. C. ^ I SOLON ASSAILS GOP conference Senator Gufley Say, M((|, mg Is Plainly A P0ljtj, cal Movement WASHINGTON, Aug. a9. _ Senator Guffey (D-Pa^ j " today that the pUrpose Qf «^ publican conference to beain '' Mackinac Island, Mich, l , *l ^fr I *'1S as Plainly political®”' the disguise of that rurnL s' transparent.” purpose j, Guffy, chairman of *e n(w> cratic senatorial camPaiKnD*"«■ mittee, asserted that "the r n n' has a fierce factional war P hand” and added: r °n “The prospective collusirm , tween the Willkieistic all°d be' operation program after the ,/0' and the isolation sentiment, 3 utabie to some other Republi candidates, has little to do 5 ? ternational results and much to V with internal G. 0. P. st,X*° Hence the session on Semin Vandenberg’s home ground, membership largely composed l pre-Fearl Harbor isolatiorlb leavened by a considerable Ern/ of straddle-bugs, mostly afflicted by the necessity of being reads- t„ vault to whatever side of the feW. seems most useful-and with the prospective marked absence of Wendell Willkie himself.” 1 (Republican National’Chairman Harrison E. Spangler, in announc ing the Mackinac Island meeting said that the 49 members of tl’e Republican postwar advisory coun cil “will present to the nation a program for international coopera, tion that will be a beacon of fu. ture peace to all the peoples of the globe.”) Guffey prophesied that the Mar kinac conference would cr— forth “a series of platform plants that will cover every phase of the problem, and more or less astute ly dodge them all.” -, , Cock-fighting is one of the 5j. vorite sports in Puerto Rico. MANOR ™« DOUBLE FEATURE! BETTE DAVIS HERBERT MARSHALL —in— “THE LETTER” —also— Late News War Short Late Show Frl. - Sat. “London Blackout Murder’’ _——Cool - Air W Conditioned ■ The First Musical Spectacle V of America’s Own Minstrels I “DIXIE’’ with Bing Crosby I Dorothy Lamour 1 Shows: 11:15, 1:10. 3:08, M 5:09, 7:13, 9:17. M Last _ Vay m Spectacular Drama \j of the Home Front Army 1 Brenda Joyce < in “THl'MBS l P 1 with Riehard Fraser a Shows: TI :rr»-1-2:tA-4:30
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