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Served by Leased Wire of the ■■■I* -^^-qa a—j ^ — m .^m*. kVrVfr *1 rr™ THE SUNDAY^ STAR-NEWS ™°™ and National News B ■ B BBS BjP BMP B ^B publishes w*^ ■ ■ i^i hi ■ 11 AND BATAAN : - = _^XMII €H1TV®FBB®BBlSi AME) @ILBA8y.BB%g_ _ _ \ 0L. 1^•—XO-_48- _p & WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1943_FINAL EDITION_PRICE FIVE CENTS SPEARHEADS CRACKING GREA T DNIEPER RIVER FRONT A T SIX PLA CES AIMING AT ORSHA Soviet Forces Are Pressing Along Famous Moscow Minsk Highway | MOSCOW CELEBRATES Most Important Enemy Center Of Resistance Freed From Nazis LONDON, Sunday, Sept, 26 —(/P)—Soviet columns pound ed on past captured Smolensk, the Red army’s greatest 1943 victory, in pursuit of the fleeing Germans, Moscow dis patches said today, as some reports said Russian spear heads had cracked the great Dnieper river line at a half dozen points from Smolensk to tottering Kiev. An Associated Press dis natch from Moscow said Gen. Vassily Sokolovsky’s troops I which battered down the last German defenses of Smolensk and Roslavl, 66 miles to the south, pressed on immediate ly along the Moscow-Minsk i highway which Napoleon travelled in and out of Rus sia. They were aiming now at Orslia, 65 miles beyond the fallen central front bastion, and also at Vitebsk on the highway to Latvia. At Vitebsk, 75 miles northwest of Smolensk the Germans have elect ed powerful defenses around the I Vitebsk lakes. Moscow Celebrates Moscow shook with the thunder of 224 guns saluting in the victory and crowds cheered the broadcast of Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin’s order of the day calling Smolensk “the most important strategic center of German defenses in the western direction.’’ A brilliant display of fireworks lit up the chilly streets of the capital as crowds shouted “Smo lensk is Soviet.” The Moscow communique, re corded by the Soviet monitor, said Sokolovsky's troops dislodged the Germans from the fortifications covering the approaches to Smo lensk and then broke into the nor thern outskirts of the once vital Nazi stronghold on Friday. “Fierce street fighting ensued. By the end of the day the whole northern part of the city had been ’ cleared of the enemy. This morn ing the city was carried by as sault. “In this way Smolensk, the most important enemy center of resis tance, has been liberated from the Germans.” Flank Turned The capture of Smolensk turned the northern flank of the Dnieper i river line the Germans once ex i pected to hold as an east wall deep in Russia. No natural obstacles bar a Rus sian westward drive in the area and the Soviet army can continue its advance without risk of a Nazi counter-attack because the left flank will be protected by the pri pet marshes. Henry C. Casskjy, Associated Press correspondent in Moscow, cabled that the highway leading west from Smolensk, the finest in the Soviet union, was reported lit tered with beaten German troops and brokei* machines. The communique also announced continuing Soviet advances north west of Smolensk where 60 towns and villages were captured and over 600 Germans killed. A break in German morale in this area was indicated when 65 Germans came over to the Red Army with their arms. Crossing Dnieper Meanwhile London newspapers, quoting Reuters dispatches from Moscow, said that Russian troops were fighting their way across the Dnieper at several points. They did not make clear, however, whe ther the west bank had been reach ed and held. The capture of Smo lensk involved a crossing of the Dnieper at its headwaters where (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Allies Seize HountaitiTops AroundNaples Airmen Take Toll Of Ger mans Attempting To Flee From Corsica PRISONERS captured More French Troops Land On Corsica And Co operate With Allies allied headquarters in n0RH AFRICA. Sept. 22-(Delay c(j^ _jf._ American and British gjound forces have smashed their ivay to the mountain tops guarding the smoke-filled plain of Naples, headquarters announced today, as Allied airmen took a growing toll of German troops attempting to jee bv plane from Corsica to It aly. The American Fifth army pressed its onslaught day and night against the strong German irountain defense line. The total of Nazi prisoners taken since Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s forces land ed at Salerno rose to well over 2.000. Slow Progress The going was slow for the Al lied attackers, who sweated up steep hillsides with mules carry ing guns and ammunition where neither trucks nor tanks could travel. But the soldiers who toiled on, rooting out German strongholds as they went, had the satisfaction of iooking down from the moun tain tops today on low country where the enemy will lose the defensive advantages he now pos sesses. Nineteen big Junkers-52 trans port planes carrying German per sonnel from Corsica to the main land were shot down yesterday by Allied fighter squadrons, which had downed at least seven such craft the previous day. At least a dozen more of the heavily-laden transports were damaged in the past two days as RAF Beaufighters kept up a vigi (Continued on Page Six; Col. 1) --— v F. W. HELL QUITS DEFENSE POSITION Plans To Return To Post With Large Tobacco Company In Turkey The New Hanover County De fense council has accepted the resignation of its coordinator, Franklin W. Bell, who will leave Monday for Washington and New York to complete plans to return to his executive position with a large tobacco firm in Istanbul, Turkey, after an absence of two years. Mr. Bell has represented one of the larger tobacco companies in the Near East for 25 years. He arrived in America in Septem ber. 1941, for his usual vacation of two months but the war pre vented his return. While in this country he has made his home with his sisters. Misses Mary and Gerlrude Bell in Oleander. With the consent of his company, Mr. Bell has served as a volun teer in the New Hanover County Defense corps, having held the following positions; controller of Civilian Defense Corps, Feb. 1 to March 4, 1942; assistant command er of the corps, May 1, 1942 to [Continued on Page Nine; Col. 6) -V WEATHER north Carolina, south caro UN'a and GEORGIA: Moderate tem perature Sunday and Sunday evening, ♦ 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.. 57; 7:30 a. in., 55; 1:30 ?• p’- "0; 7:30 p. m„ 66, Maximum 72; -'linimum 52; Mean 62: Noimal 71. . Humidity *:30 a. m., 93; 7:30 a. m., 84; 1:30 p- m-. 39; 7:30 p. m.. 50. n. Precipitation iotal for the 24 hours ending 7:30 Tm- 0.00 inches. t°ta] Fince the first of the month, ^ 18 inches. Tides For Today High I.»w Wilmington _ _ 7:27A 2:19A ,, 7:50P 2:32P Masonhoro Inlet _ 5:25A11:31A - 5;40P sunrise. 6;03 a. m.; Sunset. 6:04 p. m.; annrise. 3:18a.: Moonset, 4:50 p. Wape Fear River stage, 11.20 fefet. " '■ininued on Paste Two; Col. 1] “MAROONED” UNTIL OREGON REACHES BOND QUOTA the seven men in the photo above don t know how Oregon’s Third War Bond drive is going, but they hope it’s going well. Set adrift in a lifeboat, 65 feet out in the Willamette River to publicize the state’s $104,000,000 goal, they vowed to remain "at sea” until the quota was achieved. They’re pictured as, on their fifth day as “castaways,” one of them tries to catch some fish to supplement their regular canned rations. Third War Loan Drive I Reaches $5,000,000 Here SHORT OF GOAL Canvass Of Business Estab lishments Will Get Un der Way Tomorrow The huge thermometer in front of the postoffice charting the progress of the Third War Loan campaign moved up to $5,000,000' Saturday and was $1,053,000 short of the goal. Admitting that New Hanover county is “getting behind” the drive in the last days of its run, officials of the War Finance com mittee disclosed that $500,000 worth of war bonds were purchased at the close of the week bringing the total figure comfortably near the quota. Representatives of the War bond committee will start Monday a canvass of Wilmington business houses to solicit the purchase of 7-8 per cent certificates of indebt edness, and Series C Tax Notes, in a last minute effort to boost the thermometer to the top. Let-, ters asking the aid of local busi ness men have been mailed to them by the War Finance com mittee. One Booth Open Only War bond booth to be open this week will be headquarters in the Tide Water building. It will be operated Monday through Thursday by the American Legion Auxiliary, under the supervision of Mrs. J. Carl Seymour. The campaign conducted among trades and profession has resulted in reports already tabulated to $164,250. Reports were made as follows: L. A. Raney, automobile dealers and employes, $49,900; Walker Taylor, fire insurance agents. $62,350: and B. F. Suther land. fertilizer industry, $53,000. The investments in government securities solicited by the Women’s division of the War Finance com mittee to date amounts to $298, 237.95, it was announced by Mrs. Bereniece Stellings, chairman, and Mrs. David Murchison and Mrs. John Hoggard, co-chairman. Block messengers were respon sible for purchases of $91,668.25 worth of bonds, as follows: Mrs. Jas. K. Paul, Forest Hills, $24,700. Mrs. E. L. White, Oleander, $24, 200. Mrs. Herbert Codington and Mrs. Henry Emory, Zone 2, $11, 450. Mrs. A. M. Alderman, Zone 5, $13,462. Mrs. E. C. Hicks, Jr., Zone 1, $6000. Mrs. Leslie Boney, $3,925. (Continued on Page Two: Col. 3) N. C. Bond Purchases Total $110,000,000 WINSTON-SALEM, Sept. 25. — (AP)—North Carolina citi zens have bought S110,000,000 worth of Third Loan securi ties, or 76 per cent of the quota of 8145,000,000, State War Bond Chairman Clarence T. Lcinbach of Winston-Salem announced tonight. Leinbach said reports from local chairmen showed that 27 counties had exceeded their goals and approximately an equal number were near the 100 per cent mark. He did not list the counties which have gone over the top. The state chairman indicat ed that the total amount of bonds actually sold may be even larger than the an nounced total since a rush in bond-buying by individuals had swamped issuing agents and resulted in delays in getting orders into the hands of fed eral reserve banks for tabu lating and crediting to the respective counties. -V NIPPONESE NAVY PULLS IN HORNS No Mention Made Of Sink ing Of Japanese Craft Since August 7 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Sept. 26 (Sunday) —(It1— The Japanese navy nas pulled in its horns dur ing recent weeks of the Allied of fensive in New Guinea and the Solomons. Enemy warships, which once dominated the area, have become so scarce that no mention of the sinking of any of them has been made in the communiques of Ger eral Douglas MacArthur since Aug ust 7. During September bomb hits have been reported on two Japa nese destroyers but both were well back of protecting bases in New Guinea and New Britain. This con trasts sharply with the numerous naval engagements during the first month of the twin-pronged American and Australian drive which started last June 30. American warships and air planes sank five or six enemy cruisers and 13 or 14 destroyers during July at a cost of one cruiser and two destroyers. During the (Continued on Page Six; Col. 6) HULL MAY ATTEND MOSCOW MEETING New Ambassador May Ac company American Dele gation To Red Capital WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Wt— High importance of the Moscow conference on American-Britisb Soviet w?ar and post-war collabor ation appeared increasingly likely tonight to bring attendance ol Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While Hull informed reporters after a meeting with Ambassador William H. Standley and Presi dent Roosevelt that neither he nor the government had reached th( question of whether he would gc to Moscow, some of the secretary’s associates termed his presence “imporative.” It also appeared possible tha a new ambassador would accom pany the American delegation since Standley intends to resigr his post without returning. De termined to get out of diplomacy the admiral said goodbye to For eign Commissar Molotov w'hen he took leave of the Soviet capita a few' days ago. W. Averell Harriman. lend-leas< expediter at London, is expectec to succeed Standley. He attendee the conference with Hull anc Standley which the secretary in (Continued on Page Six; Col. 5) -V AMERICANS RAID ST. OMER FIELD British Attack Rail And Water Transport Tar gets In France LONDON, Sept. 25—UP!—Ameri can Marauder bombers blasted the Longuenesse airfield at St. Omei in northern France today and Brit ish planes attacked rail and water transport targets in northerr France and Belgium and sank a medium sized supply vessel of: Den Helder in north Holland, i1 was announced tonight. Allied Spitfires escorted the U, S. Eighth Air Force bombers or the St. Omer raid which was ac complished without the loss of a plane by the attacking force, a joint British air ministry-U. S. Army communique said. The supply vessel sunk off Den Helder Was hit by a torpedo from an RAF Beaufighter of the coastal command escorted by Spitfires. More than a dozen locomotives and several barges were damag (Continued on Page Six; Col. 7) F. D. R. Asks Nation To Note ‘Victory Fleet Day’ By Purchasing More Bonds WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—(JPh~ Shipyards will celebrate ‘ victory fleet day” on Monday — second anniversary of the launching of the first Liberty ship — and Pres ident Roosevelt asks that all Amer icans join in the observance by buying war bonds. ‘‘Every American can become a builder of ships,” the president said in a statement today, ‘‘by pur chasing an extra war bond on vic tory fleet day. That would be a tribute to the men and women in our shipyards, and inspire them to greater efforts.” The first Liberty ship was the Patrick Henry, launched at Balti more Sept. 27, 1941- Thirteen oth er ships also went down the ways at various shipyards that same date. Since then some 2,100 other merchant ships have been con structed and launchings now av erage five a day. Monday’s observance will be car ried out without any interruption in production schedules by the mil lion workers in 70 shipyards and 350 allied factories. Many yards will launch vessels. This pledge, to be prominently displayed in yards and factories, will be signed by the workers; “On this victory fleet day, I sol emnly pledge that I will pour into the production of ships for victory so full a measure of my muscle, mind and money that the fighters of our United Nations will never (Continued on Page Six: Col. 6) F. R. Names! Stettinius To Welles’ Post -i, Leo Crowley Heads New: Office Of Foreign Eco nomic Administration LEHMAN APPOINTED Named Special Assistant To Make Plans For Relief Meet Nov. 9 WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—(if)— Prgsident Roosevelt, ir. a three way move to bolster his foreign policy and foreign economic ad ministrations, tonight names 42 year-old Chicago-born Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., as undersecretary of state to succeed the Sumner Welles, who resigned. At the same time, he grouped all foreign economic activities of the government, except those un der Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-American Affairs, under an other Midwesterner, 53-year-old Leo T. Crowlev of Wisconsin. THIRD STEP The third step was the appoint ment of former Governor Herbert Lehman of New York as special assistant to the President to per fect plans for the Nov. 9 meeting of United Nations on relief, the President said Lehman will be ; urged by this government to be i come director of the international relief set-up. In announcing Welles’ resigna tion, which had been reported un officially for several weeks, the President said Welles asked to be relieved because of his wife’s health. Reports of differences be tween Welles and Hull, however, have been current. Mr. Roosevelt expressed "sin cere regret" at Welles’ departure and said the New York-born dip lomat career man had served the State Department and this gov ernment with "unfailing devo tion” for many years. Welles was not mentioned for any new as signment. Stettinius. as the new No. 2 man at the State Department, moves over from the lend-lease administration where as admin ■ istrator he has supervised the spending of billions for Allied war 1 aid. ELEVATION Associates of James F. Byrnes, war mobilization chief, who was 1 reported as having been a main* ■ spring in the new administration shake-up, said the transfer of Stettinius to the State Department was considered an elevation of a loyal administration worker who stands in well with Congress and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V JAILED UAW CHIEF ORDERED RELEASED CIO Official Found In Con tempt Of Court By Jud^e In Texas AUSTIN. Tex., Sept. 25.— (£>) — Chief Justice James P. Alexander of the Texas supreme court to night granted a writ of habeas cor pus for the release of R. J. Tho mas, president of the United Auto mobile Workers (CIO', from Tra vis county jail. Thomas was found in contempt of court today by Judge J. Harris Gardner in 53rd district court and assessed three days in jail and $100 fine. Justice Alexander said hearing in Thomas’ case had been set for Oct. 20. Judge Gardner declared there was no question that Thomas had violated a temporary restraining i order preventing the union officials i from soliciting membership in a union without a license as required by Texas law. Following his rul ing on the contempt issue the jurist made permanent the temporary restraining order. Thomas addressed a labor rally in Pelly Thursday night, in defiance of the tempoary restraining order. The union leader said he came ; to Pelly to test the constitutionality of the Texas law, and that he “be- < lieved that could be most effec- j tively done by exercising my Amer- t ican right of freedom of speech.” ] As Thomas was escorted to the county jail Attorney Ernest Good- i man of Detroit said he would seek i his freedom on an application for writ of habeas corpus before the 1 state supreme court. i Germany Features Peace Talk In Propaganda Drive LONDON, Sept. 25.—</P)— While the breath of military disaster blew cold upon their necks in Russia today, the Germans went to work on an other propaganda campaign featuring peace rumors from Many quarters. Highlighting the Nazi-inspir ed web of rumor was the re port from neutral Spain that the satellite Rumanians had sent representatives to Tur key to negotiate an armistice with the Allies. The main purpose of the weekend campaign appeared to be to frighten the Allies in to the belief that some sort of Nazi peace with Soviet Rus sia was possible. A report that Germany itself was thriwing out peace feelers “in every direction’’ was brought to London by a trav eler from the Mediterranean area. The London Daily Express, under the heading “Goebbels Starts New Peace Lie,” re ported that the Germans had begun to whisper in the Balk ans that they were withdraw ing from Russia by agreement with the Soviet government. Having withdrawn to a short line between Russia and Po land—so ran this German sto ry—Hitler would be in favor able position to talk peace with Premier Stalin and draw 2,000,000 men out of the east to confront the Allies in the west and south. This was described here as “sheer fantasy.” There was not a single bit of information suggesting the existence of any (Continued on Page Six; Col. 4) Australian Troops Near Japs’ Finschhafen Base SET UP BEACHHEAD Outnumbered Lightnings Turn Back Strong Ene my Air Formation ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sun day, Sept. 26.—W—Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today that Australian troops have fought their way against Japanese oppo sition across the Bumi river with in three quarters of a mile of the enemy air and supply depot base of Finschhafen, New Guinea. The south shore beachhead was firmly established and the Aussies drove steadily toward the town, which is on the Huon peninsula only 75 miles from Japan’s stra tegic island of New Britain. Ene my resistance was bitter. Turn Back Planes The Japanese airforce, which lost more than 40 planes last Wed nesday trying to break up the Aus tralians in their amphibious land ings six miles north of Finschhaf en, tried to hamper the drive but outnumbered Lightnings turned back a strong enemy formation. “Our ground forces in the face of enemy opposition effected a crossing of the Bumi river and are driving south towards the town,” today’s communique said. “Four fighters intercepted a force of nine enemy bombers cov ered by 30 fighters approaching to attack our ground troops. The enemy planes were forced to jetti son their bombs harmlessly before reaching the target. One enemy Eighter was shot down and anoth er probably destroyed. We lost two fighters.” This air action occurred Friday after the Bumi had been crossed. Progress south of the river has neen slowed up by difficult coun ;ry as well as the enemy oppo sition. The communique reported air ’orce action against Japanese ship aing. In a favorite hunting ground 'or enemy vessels near Kavieng, Slew Ireland, four-engined recon laissance planes sank a 2,000 ton ;argo ship. Off the same island near Cape 3t. George, an enemy cruiser was attacked and three medium cargo vessels were bombed in the North Solomons area but these were light actions and results were not letermined. America Suffers $,497 Casualties At Salerno WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.— (API—The War department reported today that American casualties at Salerno up to and including September 15 to talled 3,497 killed, wounded and missing. The announcement noted that this period includes “Sep tember 14, the date of the German announcement that 8,000 to 10,000 American sol diers had been killed” and "an equal number captured.” The period covered by the report includes the time dur ing w'hich the Germans made their eounter-attaoks on the Allied beachheads. On September 16 Allied forces took the initiative. FLORIDA SHIPYARD RESUMES ACTIVITY Disagreement Over Em ployment Of Wilmington Man R^norled Settled JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 25. —(JP)—Full scale operations were resumed today at the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company yards after a three-day work stoppage resulting from a labor dispute. An agreement reached late last night between unions and the managements resulted in more than 95 per cent of the 15,000 men and women workers reporting back to work. Tne shiypard builds car go carriers for the U. S. Mari time Commission. A statement issued by the ma nagement and union officials said “the interpretation of the ‘senior ity’ and ‘promotion’ clauses of the existing labor agreement will be the subject of arbitration in ac cordance with the terms of the agreement.” Union leaders indicated that em ployment of J. R. Haunton of Wil mington, N. C., whom they describ ed as an “outsider,” as superint endent of shipwrights, was the ba sis of the disagreement. No wage questions were involved. Report On Rail Workers’ Raise Plea Given To F. R. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—<3>>— tn emergency board created to lear demands of approximately 00,000 railroad operating employes or a 30 per cent wage increase ubmitted its report today to ’resident Roosevelt. Indications were the report and ecommendations would not be aade public until next week. The board held hearings in New 'ork last may, receiving volumi iOus testimony from the five | transportation brotherhoods in sup port of their request, which in cluded a provision for a minimum increase of $3 a day. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme court headed the board which brought the report to the White House. Other members are I: L. Sharf man, head of the economics depart ment of the University of Michi gan, and Frank M. Swacker, New York lawyer.
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