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I Served By Leased Wire Oi Thel ---- ASSOCIATED PRESS BFMFM1IFB MEWS AMD FEATURES liLPlLPIBLH wuh Complete Coverage 01 PEARL HARBOR State And National News L--— -I AND BATAAN ~~ -----WILMINGTON, N. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED Establishment Of Air Route Into Wilmington Is FurtJ>-f&f Delayed At CAB ConF Sianuuifc pit-c* coastal cities, including Wil mington. for air transporta tion must be further delay ed. This, in effect, sums up the decision of the Civil Aeronau tic; Board, announced today, concerning the application of five contending carriers to serve an extension to run southward from New York with stops at Wilmington and other centers on the coast having a "community of in terest.” Large Area Affected It mear.s that the Virginia-North Carolina tide water area and the South Carolina-Georgia low coun try. heavily congested because of enormous military and naval ac •ivity, must still be denied, for the time being at least, an inter connecting air service which mili tary and naval authorities agree would make lor greater efficiency in war traffic between the affected cities. Supported by a letter from Presi dent Roosevelt, in which he as sumed the position that the ap- : plication of Colonial Airlines for < service from New York, along the Atlantic Coast, to Nassau is 'in ter-related'’ with the future of service to South America, the CAB decision set forth that a “long range approach” to the develop l ment "necessitates” the defer I ment. f The board did order Eastern Air lines to stop at Columbia as an intermediate point between Char iohe and Atlanta on the line’s so called Route 6. a step urged by South Carolina’s Senator Burnett R. -Maybank to provide north-south -nwLe 10 Columbia, because of military activity at Fort Jackson. The decision also provided lor an Eastern stop at Raleigh at the Line s Route 5, between Richmond 2nd Charlotte. B.it Colonial, National, Pennsyl vania-Central, Eastern and Sea nnard, all vieing lor the contro versial route proposed to extend -‘Om New York through Atlantic • ’ Norfolk, Elizabeth City, New ?arn' Wiimington, Georgetown, -lyrtle Beach, Charleston, Savan *;atl an^ Florida cities, must await . such time as the proper air serv es pattern" for air transportation *0 Latin America is worked out. President Roosevelt’s letter, re iu,ning the board’s “proposed de rision (believed to have favored Colonial’s New York-Wilmington • 2ssau route) without either ap proving cr disapproving it, follows m part: I have read with interest, the Proposal of the Civil Aeronautics ,art* with regard to additional v',.':Ces ai°n§ the Atlantic Sea and to Nassau. I have also or-sidered your request to restore jour active calendar applica ‘•J;S for authorization to engage r loreign air transportation to the Caribbean area and Latin Ameri i am deeply interested in both ^tinned on Page Six; Col. 4) FDR Reported Op„ losing DefermerU Of Fa.thers WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—UP) President Roosevelt was re ported anthoritively tonight to be ready to oppose a pending move in Congress to prevent the draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. Informed Congressional sources said he would make his position clear in a message to tbe House and Senate Friday outlining the progress of the war. Mr. Roosevelt’s plan to send a war report to Capitol Hill was disclosed by his legisla tive chiefs after a White House conference during which they told him many returning members are seriously disturb ed over the plan to induct fathers after October 1. Simultaneously, it was dis closed by the same Congres sional sources that the chief executive’s message would be the first of a series of execu tive communications to Con gress. Others—will deal with such subjects as benefits and reha bilitiation for war veterans, the problems of giving soldiers an opnortunitv to vote in the next elections, and, later, taxes. Whether President Roosevelt will include in his message Fri day a recommendation for na tional service legislation re mained uncertain, although some Congressional sources predicted he would follow that course. The Congressional leaders conferred with the president shortly after a White House tax conference attended by the Ad ministration’s economic and re venue chiefs, among them Treasury Secretary Morgen thau, War Mobilization Direc tor James F. Byrnes and Fred M. Vinson, director of econom ic stabilization. While there was no official disclosure of what was said at that conference, it was learn ed that the Administration probably will not submit a pro gram for raising additional re venue until after’ the current war loan drive has been con cluded. While the president has urg ed that Congress find $12,000, (Continued on Pasre Six: Coi. $) CAMERON FAVORS CITY EXTENSION Mayor Tells Rotarians He Is Behind Enlargement Of Wilmington Mayor Bruce B. Cameron told members of the Rotary club Tues day that he was solidly behind the move to extend Wilmington's :ity limits. "When the issue was being con sidered early this year, I was not strongly in favor of extension. Now hat I have been given the oppor ;unity to watch the operations of xir government, I have concluded hat the extension is necessary to he proper growth and develop ment of our city,” Mayor Cameron leclared. “Tlie city government gets more iriticism from the neople who live >utside than from those within. The situation ought to be corrected. Many of those persons ought to 3e allowed to become citizens of Wilmington so they can help fur lish the leadership, the interest, md the money that is needed to (Continued on Pa^e Six; Col. 5) Close Adviser To FDR Quits Legal Duties To Give Nation Full Time WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, long one of President Roosevelt’s closest ad visers, is quitting the bench to ievote full time to the job. The president announced at his jress conference today that the nan credited with originating nany of the New Deal govern nent reorganization moves is eaving the New York state su preme court to become his special :ounsel. The move brings Rosenman jack to the same official relation ship to Mr. Roosevelt which he leld when the latter was governor jf New York—legal assistant. Operating mostly in private, Ro senman has been a major factor n Roosevelt councils even while le occupied the bench. He has iivided time between New York md the White House. Now 47, Rosenman has been ilosely associated with Mr. Roose velt since 1928. The Office of War Mobilization, which is in effect a home front war cabinet headed by James F. Byrnes, is understood to have been Rosenman’s idea, and also the Of fice of War Information, headed by Elmer Davis.__ JURIST UPHOLDS RIGHT OF PRESS Newspapers May Criticize Judicial Action Is Ver dict Of Court MOBILLE. Ala., Sept. 14.—».7P— The right of a newspaper to criti cize judicial action was upheld to day in a decision dismissing a contempt conviction of Ralph B. Chandler, publisher of the Mobile Press and Register. Probate Judge Norvelle R. Leigh, Jr., hearing a habeas cor pus proceeding, ruled that “after a court has rendered final judg ment any one may criticize such final judgment as he pleases, sub ject only to criminal prosecution and civil suit if his criticism t slanderous or libelous.” The publisher was fined $10 and sentenced to six hours in jail June 11 by Judge Tisdale J. Touart of Mobile inferior criminal court, who objected to an editorial in the Register, morning daily, which termed the court’s action in fixing a peace bond for a man charged with making threats during racial disturbances here “a toss-up be tween conviction and acquittal.” dimissing the case and relieving Chandler of the $500 bond under which he was freed 20 minutes after his conviction by Judge Tou art, held that “all courts who har' the last say have held that before a man can be adjudged guilty o a contempt for criticising a judge or court his criticism must relate to a cause or matter still pending and undecided. In answer to a question by Thomas E. Twitty, attorney f the publisher, Judge Leigh said this paragraph did not mean that a newspaper was necessarily liable for criticisms while a case is pending, since in that case the criticism “must be calculated to disturb or obstruct the administra tion of justice.” Assistant Solicitor Thomas O. Howell, Jr., said the state “is not filing an appeal at this time.” Under Alabama law it must file an appeal with 30 days or the dis missal stands. Judge Leigh held it was not necessary to decide whether the "facts alleged in the editorial were true or untrue,” but agreed with the newspaper statement that charge of “inciting to riot” could have been made by Judge Touart “under the facts alleged.” Chandler gave this statement af ter the decision: “Judge Leigh’s decisions is a (Continued on Page Six; Col. 2) War Bond Drive Pushing Toward Quota D.„-e Thifd War Loan drive is 051 rmn m the direction of the $6,- 1 fount'- g°al set for New Hanover 1 tnemv’ "ar Finance committee i j ers reported Tuesday night. ] farr'n -' Ijaney> co-chairman of the i suits tiP’ saic* that stastics on re Dren, , far bad not yet been i sou. red> but indicated that all 1 difv u were experiencing little i li.’-L- ty in selling War bonds to i Altngt°nians- : tiers °fUga a number of large or- < h0nH v the special Treasury : the r »-a-Ve already been taken, 1 Until e™ficates will not be issued Tre today. September 15. The i e-ghtUry bonds bring seven- 1 t-,,1 s Per cent, two per cent, and 1 ’ and a half per cent interest, i "We are expecting a pick-up in he sale of Treasury notes on Vednesday and thereafter,” Mr. ,aney commented. Orders may be ilaced at local banks and other ssuing agents. . Mrs. Bereniece Stellings, chair nan of the Women’s division of he War Finance committee, re >orted that two Bond booths, one it headquarters in the Tide Water 3ower company lobby, and the ither in Belk-Williams department tore, had collected $12,728.70 for >onds during the past two days. The Belk-Williams booth, which s being operated by members of he Order of the Eastern Star, has aken in $9,148.70, some of the noney realized from uptown solic nations,: tne remainder repre senting the purchases of the shop ping public. Part of the $3,580 reported by the Tide Water booth, operated this week by the Ministering Circle, represents results from the house to-house canvass being made by volunteers and members of the New Hanover County Citizens Service Corps; the remainder was realized from uptown collections. “There is no complete report on the door-knocker campaign to date. But our women are busy at their job,” Mrs. Stellings said. Mrs. Stellings has as her co (Continued on Page Six; Col. 3) I Foe Admits Evacuation Of Bryansk LONDON, Sept. 14.—(#>)— The Germans announced to day that their troops had abandoned the key rail city of Byansk in the face of the mighty Russian offensive but the midnight Soviet commu nique did not claim its cap ture -and a Reuters dispatch from Moscow declared fight ing still was raging in the streets of the city. The Reuters dispatch said Red Army forces were storm ing the bastion while the Na zis fought to gain time while their torch squads attempted to fire or blow up everything that could not be moved. Russians Using: Nazi News Frequently since their forces be gan smashing the Germans back across the Ukraine, rooting Hil ler’s armies out of one strongpoint after another, the Russians have permitted their retreating enemies first to announce ' strategic” with drawals before themselves pro claiming a Soviet victory, frequent ly in a special order of the daj by Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin. In its only mention of the Bry ansk sector, tonight’s Russian wai bulletin said merely that Red army troops in that area ‘‘fought offensive engagements and cap tured several populated places.” The Soviet communique, howev er, told of consistent gains along the entire fighting front of up to 15 miles and claimed the capture of more than 50 more tons, vil lages and rail centers as the on’ rushing Russian armies “contin ued successfully to develop their offensive.” A gain of from 12 to 15 miles was claimed west of Stalino, where more than 150 inhabited places, including eight large towns, fell to the Soviet advance. Smiliar progress was claimed along the shores of the Sea of Azov, with the capture of the district center of Mangush, 12 miles west of Ma riupol, and in the Kharkov and Nezhin sectors where Russian col umns were lancing deep into the rich Ukraine. In Monday’s fighting the Russians claimed destruction of 92 German tanks and 13 enemy planes. Although the Soviets did not claim the capture of Bryansk, to day’s German broadcast told with great detail of the Nazis’ with drawal from the ancient fortress city. The Germans declared they had evacuated the city in good or der after stripping it of military stores aria 111s tana nuns. The capture of Bryansk would be the greatest Russian victory since Kharkov fell August 2. There seemed little doubt that the Rus sians soon would be back in the city, perhaps by dawn. The Soviet command might have withheld an nouncement of the city’s fall to avoid the risk of a premature claim of victory until the Ger mans were hurled back from posi tions where they might be poised for a counterattack. Bryansk is the hinge of the whole German front, and its fall would give the Red army a strong base from which to close the trap door on Smolensk from the south or to broaden their attack upon the weak middle Dnieper defenses upriver from Kiev. “The city of Bryansk, which first became known in this war by the great twin battle of Vyazma and Bryansk in the autumn of 1941, in the course of which Ger man troops surrounded and cap tured several Soviet armies with their entire materiel, was evacu ated by the Germans during Mon day night,” the broadcast said. WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA: Continued coo! today. (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meterological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. TEMPERATURE 1:30 a. m„ 62; 7:30 a. m„ 81; 1.30 p, m„ 80; 7:30 p. m„ 74 Maximum 81; minimum 61; mean 71; normal 73. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m„ 80; 7:30 a. m„ 88 1:30 p. m., 55; 7:30 p. m„ 62 PRECIPITATION Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 0.93 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY Wilmington-10:39a. 5:18a. 11:04p. 5:44p, Masonboro Inlet_8:22a. 2:14a. 8:51p. 2:35p, Moore's Inlet_8:27a. 2:19p. 8 :56p. 2:40p. New Topsail Inlet _ 8:32a. 2:24a. (Elmore’s) - 9:01p. 2:45p. Sunrise, 5:35 a. m., Sunset 6:19 p. m.; Moonrise, 7:42 p. m.; Moonset. 7:23 a.m. Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville on Tuesday at 8 a. m., 9.95 feet. Americans And British Fighting Hand-To-Hand With Nazis At Salerno Leaders Discuss Italian Fleet Surrender Standing on the bridge of an Allied destroyer, A dmiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Allied na- I ! val commander, and Gen Dwight Eisenhower disc uss the surrender of the Italian fleet. They are ob i serving Italian warships in the Mediterranean sailin g to Allied ports after their dramatic escape from I the Nazis. This is an official U. S. Army Signal Co rps Radiophoto. I International Soundphoto.) I Bulk Of Japs Routed AtSalamaua Exterminated By Allied Fighters ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, .Wednesday, Sept. 15.—(IP)—The bulk of the Japanese garrison routed from the air and shipping base of Salamaua, New Guinea, has been destroyed and the small scattered groups which got away into the jungles face certain annihation, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur’s headquar ters announced today. Another triumph of even greater proportions seemed in the making at Lae, 18 miles ! -- W O VlAJTA Colo W\ OllO O r AVI A _ - 3 U. S. VESSELS ANNOUNCED LOST One Submarine And Two Chasers Destroyed By Enemy Action WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—W— Three United States vessels—a sub marine and two submarine chas ers—have gone down in action against the enemy, the Navy re ported today, bringing to 114 the number of the craft lost since the war started. Only the meager statement that the Grenadier “has failed to re turn from patrol operations and must be presumed to be lost” was made by the Navy in announcing the 12th submarine loss of the war. The Grenadier, commanded by Lieutenant Commander John A. Fitzgerald, presumably was one of the many submarines which have been shattering supply lines to the widespread Japanese bases in the Pacific. Less than a week ago a com pilation of enemy losses inflicted by submarines showed that 319 en emy ships have been sunk or dam aged. They included 223 definitely sent to the bottom, 29 probably sunk and 67 damaged in attacks that have reached even into the (Continued on Page ‘Six; Col. 2) Allied Air Campaign Against Nazis Again Gathering Momentum LONDON, Sept. 14.—(fP)—1The Allied air campaign against the continent from Britain gathered momentum again to day with attacks for the sec ond day in a row hy squadrons of Typhoon fighter-bombers on shipping off Holland and a foray across the English chan nel at dusk by medium bomb ers. In a Typhoon attack, a New Zealand squadron roared in at sea level in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire from the shore and ships to attack a small enemy convoy off Cher bourg. They set afire a tug which was left sinking as was a 1,000-ton naval auxiliary ves sel. Two small escort vessels were damaged. Two coastal vessels and a harbor launch were set afire and sunk in a sweep among the islands off the Dutch coast by another squadron which al so damaged three large barg es and a tug. my strongholds crumbled before the weight of forces above and be hind that big air base. “At Salamaua the enemy is com pletely routed and his forces de stroyed,” today’s communique said. “Only small scattered groups re main, "fleeing in hills and jungles many miles northwest of Salama ua itself (in the general direction of Lae.) ‘“Their eventual annihilation is certain. “Quantities of the enemy equip ment, including heavy and field; artillery were captured.” How many enemy troops were wiped out at Salamau was not stat ed but the encircled Japanese ar my in the Lae-Salamaua sector has been estimated to have numbered 20,000 at one time. Many hundreds of dead were abandoned as the Japanese earlier fled ridge posi tions on the coast just below Saia maua. Today’s communique said Lae is under artillery fire. Above Lae. Allied forces which had crossed the Busu river within two miles of the Malahang air drome now have destroyed two enemy strongholds. The other arm of a pincers on Lae also made probress. These forces, brought in by big air transports to move down the Mark ham valley, have captured two prepared positions, headquarters said. Last reports had placed this force in the vicinity of Heath’s plantation, a Japanese strong point on the north bank of the Markham river eight miles west of Lae. Japanese planes attacked Allied forces near Lae, causing minor damage. Some 300 miles above the New Guinea front, Liberators have de stroyed 25 Japanese planes at We wak. It was in Wewak last month that more than 36 planes, most of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) !L DUCE HEADS PUPPET REGIE Germans Claim Mussolini Takes Control Of New Fascist State LONDON, Sept. 14.— UPl —Berlin announced today that Benito Mus solini had taken control of the new puppet Fascist national re gime—then turned out another chapter in the confusing streain of narrations on the recent ad ventures of the No. 1 Fascist. In announcing Mussolini's new role, the Nazis said he had sought to cancel Italy’s surrender to the Allies, and had decreed an end to the rule of the House of Savoy. (A diplomat in Bern said it was expected that Mussolini’s declara tion rejecting the House of Savoy and formally announcing his new regime would be issued within two days.) The addition to the story of Mus solini’s activities since his deposi tion came via the Berlin radio when it told the world that Mus solini had been held on a 9,500-foot plateau in the mountainous Abruz zi e Molise department east of Rome. One third of the German sol diers employed in releasing him “fell into an abyss and have not been seen since,” it was reported. “How many are still living is not known at the present.” This narration, recorded by the Associated Press, topped a long series of almost unconnected tales concerning withdrawal of the pon derous-jawed Mussolini from Ital ian custody to the protective wing of Adolf Hitler. Half Of Tickets Sold Foi On the opening day of the tick et sales to the motion picture, “This is the Army,” to be shown here September 22 in the interest of the Army Emergency Relief, approximately half the number ot tickets were placed, Robert Dan nenbaum, publicity chairman foi the event, announced Tuesdaj night. Mr. Dannenbaum disclosed that many of the tickets to the Bailej theater show were sold for top prices. Brig.. Gen. Bryan L. Milburn, commandant of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery school at Camp Davis will be heard over Station WMFD Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock in further advertisement of the Re lief show. Gen. Milburn will explain to Wil mingtonians the workings of the Army Emergency Relief, which has as its mission the assistance of soldiers and their families in times of stress. Col. Adam E. Potts, Camp Davis post commander, will be heard on the radio at the same hour Friday night. Mr. Dannenbaum said that wom en who attend the Wilmington pre miere of “This is the Army,” plan to wear evening attire, heightening the importance of the occasion. Military equipment in front ot the post office will continue to call attention to the forthcoming at SERVICE DENIED gtudy Of Latin - American Trade Wanted By Gov ernment Authorities FDR SUPPORTS MOTION Board Orders Eastern Air lines To Stop At Co lumbia Airport Bv HOWARD SCTTLE Star News Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. ^Because government air transportation authorities as sertedly believe additional study of the possibilities for future commercial air service between the Americas is nec essarv. action on the long ~4? A 4-1 IS BLOODY FIGHT Kesselring’s Men Trying Hard To Drive Allies Into Sea MEDITERRANEAN ALIVE Warships Pumping Shells Into German Positions; Men Landed ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 14.—(TP) — American and British troops fought hand to hand tonight Avith el ements of three crack Ger man di\Tisions on the Salerno bridgehed as Field Marshal Albert Kesserling made a su preme effort to driA'e the Fifth Army into the sea. During the day and into the night Allied warships poured out everything from machine-gun bullets to shell fire to help protect the nai row beachhead extending 24 miles south of Salerno and the entire Fifth Army was engaged in a grim battle. The Mediterranean was alive with ships and planes as the Allies poured reserves into the Italian fighting un der the direct supervision of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Lt. Gen. Mark W, Clark, +hp lankv commander of the Fifth Army, and his staff were in the thick of the fray. Composition of Army (A German radio broadcast re corded in London by the British Ministry of Information said Clark’s army was made up of the 36th and 45th U. S. Infantry di visions and the First U. S. Tank division; the 46th and 56th British Infantry divisions and a British Tank division. Canadian elements —presumably of one of the Brit ish divisions—were reported “on the northern flank of the Allied bridgehead.”) One hundred miles to the south the methodical Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery pushed his Eighth Army with greater speed, passing Cosenza in a drive to effect a junction with Clark and take some of the tremendous pressure off the Fifth Army. Bari as well as Co senza had fallen. The Allied communique said: “Heavy fighting continues on the Fifth Army front. The Germans are counter-attacking desperately and at certain points have regain ed some of the ground previously taken by us.” The extreme depth of the beach some places. The Mediterranean was alive with ships landing men and materiel and pumping deadly salvoes into the enemy. The city of Salerno (pop. 77,000) remained in Allied hand*. The air was streaked with In cessant dogfights as the Germans i hurled more and more fighter ; bombers into the battle. Allied [ planes, 150 miles from their near est usable landing field, bombed roads and railways leading to Sa lerno, striving mightily to delay or prevent German reinforce ments. (A German broadcast declared Nazi tank formations had swept from the mountain heights before Salerno onto the coastal plains and j were “engaged in breaking enemy I resistance on the coasts of the | sea.” The enemy broadcast claim jed that strong Allied detachments I (Continued on Page Six; Col. 1) ‘Army Show traction. The Junior Sorosis club has opened a booth for the sale of tickets in the post office lobby. Boy Scouts placed posters con cerning the motion picture in the windows of business establish ments Tuesday afternoon. A military parade here at 2:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon started the promotoinal campaign. A composite battalion of anti aircraft artillery troops, made up of the 50th AA Brigade, under the command of Brig. Gen. Clare H. Armstrong, paraded the streets, heralding the opening of Holly wood’s famed GI production. It was completed at the door (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)