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Served By Leased Wire Of The -— associated press nrMrMnrn HEWS AND FEATURES liLPItHBEK With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR -J? And Nali°Bal We— AND BATAAN viil. 76. 296 ' -======ZL__ -—~ --- FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1Rfi7 He’ll Know Better Next Time This is a san moment in me me oi "Lommanflo, the mascot of the Amphibian Engineers of the 3rd Special Brigade. He was court- ' martialed and reduced in rank for going A.W.O.L. twice. Sgt. Paul Gilliam, New Marshfield, O., tapes pfc. stripes on him as “Com- ‘ maiido" sniffs goodbye to the major's oak leaf he wore before his derelictions. ^ (International) ’ Shipyard Worker Found j Not Guilty Of Murder ! Joseph D. Hinson, young white shipyard worker, was > acquired of the murder of Milton B. Jackson, a taxi driver, : on July 24, by a superior court jury Wednesday afternoon. ’ Charged by Judge John J. Burney to find a verdict of ' guilty of murder in the second degree, guilty of manslaugh. ter or not guilty, as the evidence directed, the jury return ed a verdict of not guilty. The defendent, who pleaded not guilty and contended ■ that he shot Jackson in self-defense in an argument over ! the anrunt of a taxi fare to Lake Fores:, was set free immediate ly afterwards. He immediately asked Judge Barney for permission to shake the hands of each juror and thank him personally. Failing that, he shook hands witn his defense at tornies, David Sinclair and Aaron Goldberg, and with Alfred T. Sur les. whom the two attornies are defending on charges of first1 de gree murder. Jackson's widow, who was seated in the courtroom with a child in her arms, had to be forcibly re moved from the courtroom after sne had threatened Hinson and cried: "You think you got away with it, don't you? Nine of the 13 jurors who will render a verdict in the Surles case, in which Surles is charged with shooting his wife. Gladys Branch Surles in the bedroom of a Colon ial Village home on June 25, had been selected by the time court re cessed at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday. Solicitor Cimon L. Moore and Attorney James King, who is aid ing the state in prosecuting the case, are expected to present the iirst evidence against Surles Thurs day. -V__ PLANNING BOARD TO MEET TODAY taw Group Handicapped By Shortage Of Mem bers On Initial Session handicapped by a member s. .?r,age, the city’s new planning ; ''-t zoning board will hold its ini pi1 meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday ln city hall. ■a purpose for which the board T'“s. set up by the council early ■ hie summer is the drafting of ? master planning and zoning or dnance. to be submitted to the ^cil for consideration and adop ai)d members of the board '•3 expected to begin work on M task Thursday after electing 6 Mairman. , E ■ W. Houston Moore, prom Physician and civic leader, ;3 • his regrets at his inability S. a!;end to City Manager A. C. 13; is Wednesday and added that ; e Planning board was a matter war and dear” to his heart. He 1:5 been seriously ill since his PPointment to the board. A second member of the board, ic-my p; Emory, executive direc of the Housing authority of • 3 City of Wilmington, is out of town. Expected to be present at the woting are W. A. Fon-delle, May ,f-°ntinued on Page Eight; Col. 5) WEATHER yop_„ „ FORECAST 7;. ;,.‘iCAROLINA: Continued warm Tides For Today Wilmington H'el> Low 8 011 - -a 7 :00s hsioiib,. „ r , , 12:09P 1:1U “let_ 9:06a 3:01a }hr,:. . , 9:13p 3:20p - “let - 9:11a 3:06p ‘■V.v T„„ . , , 9:18p 3:23p IE.. . Inlet_ 9:16a 3:11a 'Vi T,„,. - »:23p 3:30j C - , s Eastern Standard) t. -«ir river stage at Fayetteville, v. 8 a. m., 10.90 feet. '1 MIXED SIGNALS . HANDLED EASILY Test Blackout With Scram bled Siren Blasts Finds City Ready ] “Scrambled” signals provided l little difficulties for Wilmington- s ians Wednesday night with homes j and business establishments observ- , i y ing a 55-minute blackout in which ] j the regular series of siren blasts was changed. j Sheriff C. David .Tones, com- t rnander of the civilian defense i corps, said the Army-called drill i was ‘exceptionally good.” He re- i vealed that the air raid wardens t reported in So “incidents,” the highest number yet reached in a 1 blackout here, and said that emer gency units were dispatched by the county control room. What may develop into a test case of the city’s blackout ordi nance, adopted in January, ‘ 1942. occurred during the blackout when Clarence Bellamy Stanland, of 104 South Sixth street, a 46-year-old department store clerk, was ar rested near Second and Market | streets for smoking a cigarette dur ing the blackout. He was regognized for bis ap- 1 pearance before Recorder H. Win- ' field Smith Thursday morning. The warrant charges (hat °tan- ' land “smoked a lighted cigarette ( upon the public streets of the city after having been warned bv a per- 1 son in auhority to extinguish it,” < in violation of the city blackout or- 1 Idinance. Army observers were present here for the blackout and Tune Rose, assistant state director of ci vilian defense, was scheduled to be here but failed to arrive due to automobile trouble. The blackout timetable showed that the Yellow signal went oul to protective agencies at 9:12 p. m.. the first Blue (a steady blast on the sirens) to the general public at 9:21 p. m. the first Red (a wavering ( blast at 9:46 p. m„ the second Blue at 10:05 p. m., the second Red at 10:08 p. m., the third Blue at 10:16 ! p. m., and the All-Clear (three 15- ’ second blasts) at 10;26 p. m. (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 2> 1 Powerful American Naval Task Force Bombj^ds Japanese Held Marcus Isle: German T aganrog Ar my Is Liquidated CASUALTIES HIGH 41.000 Nazi Troops Either Killed Or Captured By Russians 8 DIVISIONS MAULED 6.000 More Axis Troops Fall Trying To Stem Drive On Stalino LONDON, Thursday, Sept. 2—(/P)—The Red army adv vancing in the Donets basin has wiped out the German Taganrog army, killing or capturing more than 41,000 enemy toops and routing or mauling eight divisions to taling 120,000 men, Moscow announced early today. An additional 6,000 Ger mans fell yesterday trying to stem Soviet armies hacking their way toward Stalino, Poltava,' Bryansk, and Smo lensk along a 600-mile front, said a communique recorded early today by the Soviet monitor. The Taganrog debacle was the greatest single German defeat since Stalingrad. More than 35,000 Germans were killed and 5,100 captured in final liquidation of the encir cled troops caught west of the Sea of Azov city, the com munique said. Withdrawing In Donets German troops were withdraw ing in the Donets basin — Berlin military circles telling Swedish correspondents that Axis fears of an Allied invasion in the west prompted the retreat. German lines also were sagging east of Smolensk, south of Bryansk, and deep inside the Ukraine, the Rus sians indicated. The Germans, in a frantic ef fort to halt the u’ide Russian break through beyond Taganrog, were declared in today’s Moscow com munique to have hurriedly shift ed some of their inland forces to the south. The Russians then promptly went over to the offensive south west of Voroshilovgrad, punching out gains of four to six miles to ward Stalino and Debaltsevo, which lie on the network of rail ways feeding the Germans in the central Donets. Complete erasure of the collaps ing German Donets front appar ently was foreshadowed in a Ber lin broadcast which said the Rus sians were amassing a tremen dous striking force along the stretches of the middle Donets riv er. This area is on the “roof” of (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 6) * TAUNT IS HURLED Nipponese Navy Practical* ly Dared To Come Out And Fight TOKYO APPREHENSIVE Radio Declares That U. S. Units Could Have Raid ed Mainland WASHINGTON, Sept. 1— (/P)—In a direct threat to the security of the Japanese homeland, a powerful task force of the United States Navy has bombed and shells ed Marcus island, outpost guarding the approaches to Tokyo. The audacious raid, in which the Americans virtual ly dared the Japanese home fleet to come out and fight, obviously had a strong psy chological impact on the Japa nese. for the Tokyo radio said: ! The enemy could have raided the mainland if he wanted to, so the people of Japan must further solidify the defense against the ene my.” First word of the raid on Marcus, only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, came from a broad cast Japanese communique, which said the island was at tacked at dawn September 1 —August 31, Washington time. It declared that “many enemy planes raided Minami tou Shima (Marcus) at dawn today, and the enemy shelled the land by naval guns.” Confirmed By Navy This report was substantially confirmed by a Navy statement here a few hours later. It said that a carrier task force raid had been planned against Marcus for September 1 and “is presumably in progress.” , Whether the phrase “in pro gress” meant that the island was still being battered today or sim ply that maneuvers following the assault were considered a part of it was not explained. No details were expected from American sources for many hours since of ficers said the force would not break radio silence until it was safe to do so. Marcus island, which the Japa nese own, lies 900 miles northwest of enemy-held Wake island. It is an air and radio base and because of its strategic location holds domi (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V AKMY ILAKlrlti ZONING DECREE Public Proclamation Num ber 5 Does Not Change Status At Beach Public Proclamation No. five, Headquarters Eastern Defense Command. August 9, 1943 does not, in effect, change the status of protection afforded by the Army in Wrightsville Beach and Caro lina Beach. This announcement was made on Wednesday by Lt. Col. Wm. J. Sutton, commander of the combat team, Carolina Beach. This proclamation, in conformity with action previously taken in other places in the Eastern De fense Command, states that the area seaward of a line parallel to and one hundred yards west of the line of mean high tide of the Atlantic Ocean in the towns of Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Meach is within the restricted area. The remainder of each town is not within tne restricted area. Regulations contained in previous proclamations when applied to this rule state that public roads, boardwalks, residences, hotels, and other public or private build ings are not considered to be with in the restricted area, but egress from said buildings seaward shall not be made during the hours be tween sunset and sunrise. To specifically define the re stricted area in Wrightsville Beach it is that area seaward of the eastern line of North Lumina Ay. enue and South Lumina Avenue, (Continued on Page Two; Col, S) Roosevelt A.urchill War Talk Resumed In Capital | WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.— (,-P - Var discussions which President toosevelt and Winston Churchill idjourned in Quebec eight days igo were resumed here tonight vith the emphasis, apparently, on [reater collaboration with Russia. The British prime minister, ac ompanied by Mrs. Churchill, eached Washington late in the lay on a fourth war time visit. Official silence prevailed on the hannels into which he and Mr. toosevelt were directing their con 'ersations but there was evidence hat the Allied leaders would cen er a large share of their attention in the means of attaining closer nilitary and political relations vith the Soviet Union. Churchill arrived by special rain from Quebec, where, in a moadcast yesterday, he invited roseph Stalin to join with himself tnd the President later in a three ray conference, and spoke of An 'lo-American - Russian talks js ‘most necessary and urgent.” The stress he laid on collabo ration with Russia and on a pros pective invasion of continental Eu rope for which Red spokesmen have been clamoring, accented the idea that these were among the primary considerations which brought him again to Washington. Plans for Allied arms to ham- | mer their way into Hitler’s Euro pean stronghold obviously have been completed, so the political aspects of the war and of the post-war period appeared likely to dominate the war talks at t h e White House. The president and prime min ister said at Quebec that discus- , sions would continue among nu merous interested governments on the problem of administrations for European countries which are to , be liberated from Axis control. Russia would be particularly in terested in the Balkans and in Poland. And, to be effective, any for mula for lasting peace and for (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) ; RECREATION PLAN TALKED FOR CITY ’rogram Designed To Be Effective Now And In Post War Period A general picture of the pro iosed wide-scale recreation pro ram, designed to serve Wilming on during the emergency and nany years thereafter, was ketched by new City Recreation )irector Jesse A. Reynolds before he recreation division of the Council of Social Agencies at City fall. Wednesday afternoon. "We must not lose sight of the uture in our planning,” Reynolds old the group, as he asked for ull development of all types of ecreation within the city—com nercial, private, and public—and ailed for gradual preparation of Continued on Page Eight; Col. 7) Whiteville Attorney To Teach Swimming In Caribbean Area ALEXANDRIA, Va„ Sept. 1. - ^ee J. Greer, former county judge if Columbus county and resident of Vhiteville, N. C., has been sent o the Caribbean area by the Amer can Red Cross to teach classes in wartime functional swimming, irst aid and water safety, both o civilians and the American mili ary and Naval personnel. Judge Greer, who is 33, has a nng record of sports and Red Iross activity back of him. At the Jniversity of North Carolina, from vhich he graduated in 1935, he von distinction in swimming. _,ater, he swam thirty miles up Jape Fear river from Southport o Wilmington—the only person to iccomplish that feat. He was chair nan of Life Saving and Water safety of the Columbus County Chapter, American Red Cross, and >f the North Carolina Corps of _,ife Saving Examiners. The type of swimming which Jreer and his water-safety asso :iates are teaching is a course :specially designed by the Amer can Red Cross to instruct and rain persons of military age in he aquatic skills needed in war ime. Businessman Will Auction Valuables At Bond Rally Fred Willetts, in the role of auc tioneer, will sell many valuable articles, contributed by local mer chants, for the price of substan tial War Bonds, when* Wilming tonians attend the 9 o’clock show ing of “Heaven Can Wait,” at the Bailey Theater next Tuesday night. The picture marks the kick-off of the ambitious campaign to raise $6,058,000 from the sale of War Bonds in New Hanover county dur ing September, month 'f the Third War Loan Drive. Tickets to the performance go free to the per sons who buy extra bonds from their agents at local banks, build ing and loan associations, or any other authorized issuing agent. The auction will be sponsored by the Retail Merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce. Each merchant has been asked to give some non-rationed article from his store to be offered to the highest bidder in War Bonds. The articles ^re to be brought to the Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible. Mayor Bruce B. Cameron is slated to do the drawing for door prizes, the most valuable of which will be a $100 Bond contributed by local banks. The receivers will be the holders of lucky tickets. The High School band will leave the school building and march to the front of the theater, where it will play for 30 minutes before the opening of the 9 o’clock per formance. (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 5) HOSPITAL BIDS OPENED AT MEET City Council Appoints For mer Mayor Yow As Act ing Juvenile Judge. Bids for new equipment for Community Negro hospital, fur nished under a Federal Works agency grant with +he City of Wil mington as sponsor, were opened at a special session of the city council Wednesday afternoon. After the bids were opened, the council meeting was requested un til the bids could be tabulated and the low bidders determined. The meeting will be convened again to award contracts. Juvenile Judge John C. Wessell. Jr., recently commissioned as a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Coast Guard, was granted a 90 day leave of absence by the coun cil. Edgar L. Yow, prominent attor ney and former mayor and city councilman, was named acting ju venile judge during Wessell's leave of absence. Firms submitting bids for the hospital equipment contracts in cluded Smith Drum and Co., of Philadelphia, Pa.; Westinghouse, of Charlotte; Aubrey L. Simpson of Charlotte; Stearnes of Chicago, 111.; Powers and Anderson Sur gical company of Norfolk, Va.; Winston Philip of Durham; Albert Pick company of Chicago; John Van Range company of Cincinnat ti and Winchester Surgical sup ply of Charlotte. The equipment bids were m (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) Walter Lippmann Says: U. S. Must Make Foreign Policy Decisions Soon By WALTER LIPPMANN Although we are advised in high quarters not to think about such things, the war is at a rtage where it is impossible to postpone any longer the making of fundamental political decisions about Europe. The terms of the armistice which will be imposed upon Italy, upon Bulgaria, and eventually upon Germany, are an organic part of the military conduct of the war. They cannot be improvised after the enemy forces have surrender ed unconditionally. For the terms of armistice with the Axis satel lites will determine the next phase of the military operations against Germany. The terms of armistice for Germany will fix the zones of military occupation which will con trol the whole European settle ment. To leave these questions in abey ance would be the certain way to make impossibly difficult an or derly settlement in Europe. With out an orderly settlement in Eu rope, we and our allies will be unable to concentrate all our forc es against Japan. A considerable force will be needed for diplo matic purposes in Europe if we have failed to reach a satisfactory political agreement. In order to participate effective ly in the pre-armistice r. gotiations with our partners the British, our allies the Russians, and with the United Nations, our own first ne cessity is to clarify our own for eign policy. It is today, and has been for more than a year, in a most unsatisfactory condition. On the one hand our pretensions have been enormous; we have been claiming the right to say the last word about the boundaries of Eu rope, about the character of the provisional European governments which are to follow the defeat of Hitler, about the diplomatic rela tion's among neighboring European states. On the other hand, the means behind these pretensions are uncertain: we have an elec tion in 1944, we have no agreed policy, not even in the most gen eralized terms, between the Ad ministration and Congress, we have no formulation of the Presi dent’s purposes, and we have no way, therefore, of saying to our allies, or even to our enemies, what the United States will cer tainly do. Our intensions and our power are unbalanced, and we are un able, therefore, to play effectively the part we should play in the diplomatic negotiations which are now cr.der way. The event will show, I believe, that the President cannot make sure of continuing American sup port unless, taking to heart the lesson of Wilson’s tragedy at Par is, he first reduces his pretensions iContinued on Page Egiht; Col. 3) 1 Berlin Is Rocked Again By Hundreds Of Bombers Hundreds Of RAF Planes Tear Through Heavy Fighter Screen Which Backfires On Luftwaffe; City Left In Flames LONDON, Sept. 1.— <fl) —Hun dreds of RAF heavy bombers are through a powerful German fight er screen last night to rock Berlin with a 45-minute deluge of block leveling explosives that again gut ted sections of the Axis military heart and left flames visible 70 miles away. The British Air Ministry indi cated that this second concentrat ed assault in eight days equalled the 1.800 ton August 23 blow which wiped out entire districts in west ern and southern Berlin, paralyzed utility services, and sped the evac uation of thousands haunted by the specter of the blackened skel eton of Hamburg. Forty-seven bombers, eight of them Canadian, and one fighter were lost in the latest Berlin at saults on airfields and other tar gets in France and the Low Coun tires. Today, at the beginning of the fifth year of war, large forma tions of Allied planes still roared across the Dover straits toward France, while German heavy ar- I tillery in the Boulogne area hurl ed shells across the channel. The British Air Ministry said “great damage” was inflicted on Berlin, although clouds and great fires set by the British and Ca nadian airmen prevented assess ment of the full results. Berlin, however, acknowledged "consider able damage.” A two-hour parade of RAF planes across the British coast line preceded the saturation attack on Hitler’s capital, where the word was given four years ago for the invasion of Poland. The first planes over the capital opened their bomb bays at 11:30 p.m., and the cascade continued into the morning of another year of war. The Germans sprang a new de fense tactic, the Air Ministry said. But this back-fired, and possibly accounted for less RAF losses than the 58-plane casualty suffered in the August 23 raid. Instead of relying wholly on hun Continued on Page Eight; Col. 2) FOE AT SALAMAUA NOW PUSHED BACK 2 Strong Positions Over whelmed By Americans and Australians ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Thursday. Sept. 2.— W* —Japanese in two strongly dug-in positions south and southeast of the Salamaua. New Guinea, airdrome finally have been overwhelmed by American and Australian jungle fighters now closing in on the enemy base. Several days ago, Allied forces approaching the airfield from the west and southwest, supported by artillery, were reported within ri fle range but today’s communique wras the first in more than a week to tell of an advance along the coast. (Last previous advices concern ing the right flank were that the Japanese were holding to Dot inlet as their only position south of the Francisco river which flows below the airdrome into Bayern bay). The communique did not elabo rate on the Salamaua showdown battle but a spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Japanese rearguards were contesting from long prepared positions the for ward-moving Americans and Aus tralians. From ridge positions overlook ing Salamaua, Allied artillery commands most of the enemy's defenses. The sapping of the Salamaua garrison’s power to resist by sink ing supply barges went forward with motor torpedo boats now aug menting bombing planes in New Guinea coastal waters where until recently Allied ships scarcely dar ed venture. Today’s communique said these light surface craft sank 12 barges in the Huon gulf, into which the isthmus town of Sala maua extends, during the week ending August 30. Monday, airforce Mitchells, fly ing along the south New Britain coastline, sank 10 barges. In the vicinity of New Irleand, (Continued on Fage Eight; Col. 6) PISA SHUDDERS UNDER BOMBING Mighty Blow Delivered By Fortresses On Italian Rail System ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept, 3.—MP) — Suddenly switching their hammer assaults to northern Italy, U. S. Flying Fortresses delivered a mighty blow to vital railroad yards at Pisa of leaning tower fame yesterday, while Britain’s big bat tleships Nelson and Rodney led a thunderous shelling of the western Italian toe. The Fortresses, on a 1,000-mile roundtrip, poured bombs onto the center of freight yards at Pisa and the electrified system capable of handling at least 96 trains daily between Rome and Genoa, and also hit the nearby San Guisto airfield and Piaggio aircraft fac tory. Pisa lies 170 miles north of Rome. The raid gave northern Italy a dose of the concentrated destruction poured for days on rail facilities and airdromes in the southern part of the peninsula. The famous tower, completed in 1350, and other historic monuments ■were spared by the bombers. These latter assaults meanwhile continued with medium bombers and fighter-bombers attacking Sa lerno, C'osenza, Catanzaro, Sapri and Cetraro, and American Lib erators from the Middle Ea s t smacking Pescara on the eastern coast opposite Rome. Leading the cruiser Orion and nine destroyers, the Nelson and Rodney boldly steamed into the southern end of the Messina strait and bombarded Italian coastal de - fense batteries with their 16-inch, one-ton shells, meeting only feeble shore resistance. The warships also shelled the area near Reggio Calabria and near Cape Pellaro. They knocked1 out at least one big enemy coastal gun. The shift in strategy for the Fortresses appeared highly effec tive. The unescorted heavy bomb (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) Home Front Campaign’ Planned By OPA Group Members of the community service panel of the New Hanover War Price and Rationing board were apprised at an OPA meet ing in Clinton Wednesday of plans for inaugurating a “home- front campaign’’ designed to promote wider observance of OPA regula tions and better cooperation be tween retailers and consumers. Mrs. Julian Morton, chairman of the local community service panel, said that the specific goal of the forthcoming drive was to exact a pledge of each housewife by the terms of which she will refuse to buy knowingly anything above listed ceiling prices; that she will refuse to purchase ration ed goods without the necessary stamps; and that she will refuse patronage of dealers who persist in charging beyond-ceiling prices. The pledges will take the form of stickers for pasting on windows. New lists of ceiling prices will be posted prominently in all stores and as far as possible will be dis tributed to consumers. Aid of civic club and PTA group members will be solicited in dis seminating correct information on rationing in an effort “to leave no stone unturned in letting the pub lic have the facts.” Office of Price Administration leaders at the session tressed the point that retailers have had their share of difficulties under the ra tioning program, and that under standing on the part of the public could well lighten the retailer’s 'Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
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