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_ _— — • -. T" r^Tuased Wire of the f k|H|l|M AVENGE ASSOCIATED PRESS | LlC f' PEARL HARBOR ^^nLITn.™' I Ilk --. , 1^" T1 W AND BATAAN fWl__ ^tmie ig>@n5*tr eiiw @f i?>E?®®i5Egs &Kiii> E>iusA8MBiQg yef3r*°- 5L WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1943 FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS City Approves Set Of Rules for Employes Establishes Uniform Basis for Handling All Per sonnel Matters EfFECTIVE AT ONCE pr0Vide Leave, Service Ratings And Discour se Political Activity seeking to bring the personnel :cv 0{ the City of Wilmington F l.;e with that of other progres ®,‘ municipalities, and in order f establish a uniform basis for v-ndiine all personnel matters. ” r -ules arid regulations affect re,' Qje city's 308 full-time em !te- have been approved by the F..,’ c0l,r,cil and will be put into b immediately. A. C. Nichols. c-v manager, announced Saturday. r;-e new regulations have al dy been distributed, and have thoroughly explained to de triment heads in conference, Mr. j'ichols said. The rules apprise regular, full .-•e citv employes that they may rfceive ’ two calendar weeks of ial leave in each fiscal yea-; , calendar day of sick leave for month of service: will re ■ -e semi-annual service ratings: 1 are directed to refrain from engaging in municipal political ac rvities. Flexible Despite the definiteness with which the personnel policy has been written, it allows for flexi bly- and takes into consideration the disposition of the individual department heads with reference ja their workers. It also invites suggestions for improvement, and permits employes the right of a hearing in the event that discrim ination or unfair treatment is al leged. Mr. Nichols pointed out. A resume of the contents of the e;°bt-page set of rules: Legal holidays for the city will be Xew Year s Day, Washington s Pu'ihduy. Memorial Day. Indepen dence Dav, Labor Day. Thanks giv'ng Day. and Christmas Day.. The two weeks' annual leave will be —anted full-time employes who bnv" worked for the city one year c* longer*, time lost by an em ploye by reason ot leave of ab se-ce without pay. or time other w*ce not worked or paid for, shall no* be considered, vacation sche dules shall be developed by de partment heads subject to appro tCo'tinued on Page 5; Column 2) -V \m BOND SALES TOTAL S6,756,834 Latest Report Shows New Hanover Surpassed Quota Bv $703,834 The War Finance committee an nounced Saturday that the latest report from the Federal Reserve bani; discloses that New Hanover county has soared above its Third War Loan drive of 86,053.000 to $6, 756.834.75. This figure was as of the close of business October 13. and though ■! shows that this county’s quota ■as surpassed by sales amounting 0 S703.834.75. officials expressed be opinion that even more gratify results will be reavealed wher inc final report is released. This is expected next week as the Iasi count is to be made through Oc tober 16. b.ew Hanover reached 85 per cen' 1 ^ ctuota of purchases of Series and G bonds, and officials de ‘Continued on Page Three; Col. 2 Waw Chief Christens New Carrier A group of Wave officers watches the new U. S. aircraft car rier Franklin float out of her bulking docks at Newport News, Va. The new cruiser, fourth U. S. warship to bear the name, was chris tened at her launching by Commander Mildred McAfee, comman dant of the WAVES. Lewis Calls On Striking Miners T o Resume W ork - ★_ SENDS TELEGRAMS Believes WLB Will Ap prove Industry-Wide Contract Soon ■ WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—OP> John L. Lewis, asking striking coal miners to go back to work, told them today he thought the War Labor Board would approve next week an industry-wide con tract lengthening the working day and boosting average earnings about $1.75 a day. In telegrams sent to local un ions in Alabama and Indiana, the United Mint Workers’ president declared that this was his “con sidered personal judgment” as to the board’s probable action. He urged the 25.000 miners idle in the two states to go back to work on Mbnday. WLB called on Lewis last night to ask the striking coal miners to return to work, and followed up today by sending orders to the miners to “return to work forthwith.” Lnautnorizea The union had not authorized the strikes which followed the government’s return of the mines to the owners. Some miners called the walkouts a protest against working for private owners with out a contract. About 22,000 were out in Ala bama and about 3,500 in Indiana. In his telegram, Lewis said he had definite assurance that the board would rule on the “pend ing contract” next week. This is a tentative agreement with the Illinois Coal Operators Associa tion which calls for revision of the historical method of figuring the miner's time on the basis of time actually spent at the coal seam. It would make the work day for underground men 8% hours including all time required in traveling from the portal of the mine at the beginning of the shift until the miners emerge at the end of the shift. The wage rate, now $7 for a 7-hour day, would be straight time for the first 4C hours of the week and time and one-half thereafter. It would give an average ol $8.75 a day for- a 5-day week. WLB has approved concessions (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) ^ir Raids Point Toward New Plans For Invasion WASHINGTON, Oct. 16-<3>> 6 aenal offensive against Ger ,, apepars now to be entering AHiph*"~hreParation for an S Illvasion of western Eur forci -nrt constantly increasing in be expel l’erenCy probably can those induct,-f 0m n°W on aSainst sential and arsenals es ment of Cermany’s develop campa? 'Tl* f0r the critical start when across the v arrrues thrust This !, .Engllf Channel. s°me observe°r«C uS'0n drawn by •tmericsn sir i here from the day on the greaTCballShaUlt ThUrS‘ Action center i beannS Pro Germanv w-, at Schweinfurt, y< Widespread concern over the fact that the operatior cost 60 Flying Fortress bombers evoked from official sources enough information to show tha the damage done was worth the cost. Consequently the Schweinfur raid is down in the books as the most important single accomplish ment to date of American bomb ing over Germany—an operatior required by major strategic con sideration and made possible ty American ability to replace the losses which were suffered. Ranking almost equally in im portance is the raid made on th< oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania which also proved very expensive in heavy bombers. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2 Mine Strike Reduces Alabama Steel Output BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct.16 —(P>— Steel and iron produc tion in this center of heavy industry dropped to its low est rate since Pearl Harbor tonight as John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers chieftain, urged some 22,000 idle Alaba ma coal miners to return to work immediately. Seven blast furnaces and five open hearths were order ed banked in the Birmingham district because of the fuel shortage, thus reducing iron production here to 60 per cent of capacity and reducing steel output to 70 per cent. The walkout of miners, which began Wednesday fol lowing announcement of the release of the shafts from fed eral manageship, left only three mines operating in the state today. -V SHRINE LAUNCHING PROGRAM PLANNED — Sudan Temple Members To Take Part In S. S. Ka thay Ceremony Launching ceremonies for the S. is Kathay, scheduled for Tuesday : afternoon at 4 o’clock, will in clude a program conducted by thf | Sudan Temple, Order of the Mys ! tic Shrine. ; Colorful with its ceremony, Tuesday’s launching will be spon sored by Miss Julia May Raney, daughter of L. A. Raney of Wil mington. Her attendants will be Miss Jean Whitley of Windsor, Va., and Miss Barbara Cuthrell of Goldsboro. The Shriners will conduct a cer emonial earlier, at 1 p. m., in the City armory Registration of its members will begin at noon, fol lowing which the Shriners will hear Past Potentate T. L. Sim mons. The christening program will (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) -V WEATHER rAUPPAST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA: Colder east portion and continued cold west portion Sunday and Sunday evening. Marine Forecast Small craft warnings displayed south of Hatteras to Jacksonville. (Eastern Standard Time) (Bv U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. TEMPERATURE 1*30 a. m.. 68; 7:30 a. m., 71; 1.3C p m.. 76; 7:30 p. m., 61. Maximum 78: Minimum 60: Mean M^Normall 6a. 1-30 a. m.. 97: 7:30 a. m., 90; 1:3C n m , 44; 7:30 p. m.. o0. p precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7.31 P Total "since” th*S first of the month 0.00 inches.iDES FQR T0DAY ;T/M^c^tie«w . . . 12:10a 7:14: Wilmington - 12:37p 7:53j _ 10:17a 3:58: Masonhoro Inlet - 10:41p 4:34i Sunrise, 6:19 a. ,mivr(fo'ris£d! lo’?18I>a. , Moonrise. 8:oo P-, - Fayettevill: ' cape Fear River stagey Fay ^ on October 16. at 8 a. m„ ) (Continued on Faye Three; Col. *) Rail Pay Raise }$m Is Given r!oNew Board Trio Will Consider Request Of Million Non-Op erating Employes F. R. SETS DEADLINE Operating Brotherhoods To Ascertain Sentiment For Strike Action WASHINGTON, Oct. 16— Ufl — The year-long effort of more than 1,000,000 non-operating railroad employes ( clerks, shopmen, etc.) to obtain a wage increase was tossed into the lap of another em ergency board by President Roose velt today. This action came as the time neared for a meeting of the operat ing brotherhoods (trainmen, en ginemen, etc.) to ascertain senti ment for strike action in protest against a four cents an hour raise. The president named Ehvyn R. Shaw, Springfield, 111.; Richard F. Mitchell, Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Walter C. Clephane, of this city, to reconsider the demands ■of the 15 non-operating unions which have been pending since September, 1942. Sets Deadline He gave the board, second of its kind to tackle the case, until Nov. 15 to report and said its re commendations, which must be within the limits of his stabiliza tion program, v/ould take effect 15 davs after that date unless changed by Fred M. Vinson, econ omic stabilization director. The first board reported last May, recommending an increase of 8 cents an hour in contrast to the 20 cents sought by the work ers. The workers were not en titled to a further increase un der the little steel formula limit ing wage increases to 15 per cent of the January, 1941, levels. But he proposed instead a grad uated scale of increases based on the elimination of sub-standards and asked the emergency board to reconsider on this basis. This it refused to do and the board dissolved. May Consider Old Report In creating the new board today, t.he president asked it to submit recommendations in conformity with Vinson’s opinion of June 30. He also said the board “may give such consideration as it deems ap propriate" to the report flied by the board last month which pro posed the 4 cents an hour increase for the 300,000 operating brother hood members. The operating unions had ask ed an increase of 30 per cent or $3 a day, whicnever was the high er in the case of each individual. The 4 cents amounted to a 4 1-2 per cent raise, the board holding there were no substandards of liv (Continued on Page 5; Column 5) - \T MANGUM IS NAMED HEAD OF HOSPITAL ! _ I Succeeds Winston As Su perintendent Of James Walker Institution « ■ Charles Mangum. of Newport i News, Va., and a member of the ! staff of James Walker Memorial j hospital for the past several j months, has been appointed super intendent of the institution, J. C. Roe, chairman of the board of managers, announced Saturday. Mr. Mangum succeeds M. E. Winston, who has retired from hos pital work due to ill health. The new superintendent has had extensive experience in the hos pital field in North Carolina and Virginia. ALLIES CAPTURE TWO VITAL ROAD JUNCTIONS, 10 TOWNS IN ITALIAN FRONT ADVANCE ■——-- • Germans Mount 21 - Division Front Against Guerrillas In Yugoslavia BY E. C. DANIEL LONDON, Oct. 16.—UR—'The Germans have mounted a ma jor front with perhaps 21 di visions against guerrillas who are threatening to over-run Yugoslavia’s main east-west communications line, and have placed two top generals in com mand of the drive, it was re ported today. Field Marshal Gen. Baron Maximilian Von Weichs arriv ed in Belgrade to establish headquarters under the overall command of Field Marshal Er win Rommel, and there was evidence of a determined drive by the liberation army of Tito (Josip Broz) to disrupt or seize control of the Sava river valley and its vital railway. The valley, along which runs the Zagreb-Belgrade railway connecting with western Eu rope’s rail network, bisects Yugoslavia from east to west. To combat Tito’s effort to carve out an invasion bridge head for American - British armies, the Germans were re ported from Istanbul to have put 12 German divisions into Yugoslavia, plus nine Bulgari an. The Istanbul dispatch was broadcast from Cairo and re corded by the Associated Press. These figures, if true, would mean that the Germans were exerting nearly as great an effort against the Yugoslavs as against Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark and Gen. Sir. Bernard L. Montgomery in Italy. In Lon don, however, it is estimated the Germans still have fewer than 20 divisions in all the Bal kans, and about 25 in Italy. The main aim of these for- j ces undoubtedly will be to clear the guerrillas from strongholds on the Dalmatian coast, where an Allied invasion might be landed, and rescue the Sava river-railway line from Tito's depredations. Today’s Yugoslav communi que said large-scale operations I were successfully underrvay in Slovenia and lower Styria, writh the heaviest battles being fought for a railway bridge over the Sava river at Sevnica, 40 miles east of Ljubljania. It declared 4,200 Nazis have been killed or wounded so far in that sector. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) | -—-I Russians Gaining Over Nazis In Bitter Fight For Melitopol __- .. _ - . -* 4 ARGENTINE CHIEF HITS ‘TAMPERING’1 Employes Who Asked Re turn To Constitutional Democracy Fired i BI'EXOS AIRES, Oct. IS.—<-?’>— Prescient Pedro Ramirez today dis charged all government employes who signed a manifesto published yesterday which called on- the go\ - ernment to return to constitutional democracy and to fulfill its interna tional obligations in the hemisphere solidarity program. The order, which was directed to all government employes whether they occupied salaried or honorary positions, followed a statement by Ramirez in which he said the gov ernment “won’t tolerate any tamper ing.” The presidents order discharg ing the governmental employes said the declarations in the manifesto “were Incompatible with the hon orable discharge of public func tions.” VA iUUIHCVlUCU uiopaiv.il *■**—'' Ramirez's cabinet, which was re shuffled this week after three min isters regarded as pro-democratic resigned, was regarded now as even more reactionary than its predeces sor and that it was plain the nation alist government plans to stay on indefinitely and to harbor no intru sion from outside its closed ranks.) Commenting in yesterday’s mani festo, Ramirez said in part: “A group of peasons calling themselves representatives of a thing decrepit and non-existent pub lished yesterday in some newspa pers a manifesto demanding funda- i mental solutions to some of the na tional problems, x x x “The revolution was conceived and achieved by armed forces with national moral support and will not permit under any circumstances a return to the conditions which ex isted under the former regime as wanted by those who led the peo ple and the republic to the deplor able position well known to all. “Meanwhile (the government) em phatically calls attention to the fact that some of the signers of , the manifesto addressed to the Ar gentines are foreigners . Some of them were born in far-off lands; (Continued on Page 5: Column 5) CIO Labor Dispute Halts Work At Cramp Shipyard PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16. — (If) t — Thousands of workers at the I Cramp Shipbuilding company, c which operates one of the largest { shipyards on the east coast, stay- i ed away from their jobs today in ( a dispute with the management, \ and the Company said production c was at a standstill. The work stoppage developed < yesterday when 2,000 employes 1 left for lunch and failed to return. ] The company said “virtually all” ' workers joined the stoppage to day. ] Meanwhile Rep. Michael J. Brad- , ley, Philadelphia Democrat, dis- . closed that he had suggested to j the Navy on Wednesday that Navy . intervention in the dispute might j be necessary. Philip H. Van Gelder, secretary rea surer of the Industrial Union of farine and Shipbuilding Workers f America (CIO), said the stop iage “was provoked in the first nstance by the company dis harge of a union shop steward without observing the regular pro edure prescribed by agreement.” A spokesman for Henry E. Ros ell, the company president, asked o discuss the cause of the stop lage. said the company could make 'no concise statement.” Rossell said in a formal state nent that the management met pith union officials this afternoon ind assured them that “once the nen were brought back to work, ill grievances would go through the iroper channels and would be sub [Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) KILL MANY GERMANS belief Army Captures Sev eral Hamlets In Advance Toward City BY JUDSON O’QUINN LONDON, Sunday Oct. 17—<®— Sen. Feodor Tolbukhin’s south Russian army wrenched fiercely resisting Germans from block aft ?r block of battle-shattered Melito pol, gateway to the Crimea, killing 2,000 Nazis as one of the bitterest struggles of the war today entered its fifth day. Fifty miles to the north of So viet relief army, slugging its way toward Melitopol, captured several hamlets in an advance of three to six miles. There was new fighting at the Soviet bridgehead southeast of Kremenchug on the middle Dieper where Soviet units were declared to have cracked th German lines and captured several settlements and over 250 prisoners. Kepuise tounier-AUiiuRs North and south of Kiev where he Russians were fighting toward :he Ukrainian capital, over 1,000 Hermans were wiped out, said a Moscow communique recorded by he Soviet Monitor. In one week’s 'ighting there the Russians said hey beat back over 200 German :ounter-attacks, wiped out over 8, )00 Germans in a step-by-step ad vance, and detroyed 176 tanks, 187 'ield guns and over 400 machine ;uns. Gomel was another objective of leavy fighting as the Russians dosed on the White Russian town tom the north and south. Eight mndred Germans fell yesterday, he bulletin said, and big guns duel ed throughout the day and night. The Melitopol fighting, which ri valed Stalingrad for intensity and doodshed, saw the Germans hurl ng waves of men and machines nto the Maestrom despite their los ses. Forty German tanks were de stroyed in the southwestern part c (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) -V-— RUSSIA PREPARING FOR ALLIED MEET Is Willing To Discuss Post War Political And Eco nomic Problems MOSCOW, Oct. 16—(.*■)—Russia s willing to discuss post-war po itical and economic problems as veil as military issues at the forthcoming three-power confer ence in Moscow, but holds that the matter of “the second front” should come first, the official gov ernment newspaper Izvestia indi cated today. In a front-page article reflect ing assurance that an accord can ae reached on both political and military questions, Izvestia de clared the Allies are cooperating successfully and expressed confi lence that they would continue to do so. The article appeared amid grow ng indications of a generally warm atmosphere for the conference of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) CANNON OPPOSES U. S. SALES TAX Tells Ways And Committee That Government Must Have More Revenue WASHINGTON. Oct. 16 — Iff) — The House appropriations chair man told the tax-writing ways and means committee today that the government must have more reve nue to fight the war—but he does n’t think a federal sales tax is the way to get it or that economies can meet the bill “The real struggle for the army is just beginning,” declared Rep. Cannon (D-Mo). “If the army and navy say they need more funds, we’re going to risk furnishing too much rather than too little too late.” He cautioned the committee against counting on any sharp re duction in military expenditures, and said non-essential spending already has been cut to the bone —a reply to republican demands that the government can cut bil lions of dollars from its present cost Cannon agreed with the admin istration assertion that more tax income is vital. He did not. how ever, put his own approval on the treasury's program to bring in $10,500,000,000 in new revenue largely through much higher in come, corporation and excise taxes. _-\r_ Hurricane Is Moving Toward New England BOSTON, Oct. 16.— [JP)—The Bos ton weather bureau announced to night that a hurrican. “moving rapidly northward,” probably would pass the southern New England coast 150 to 250 miles offshore to morrow morning. The report said the hurricane, lo cated approximately 320 miles west northwest of Bermuda at 10 p. m., was moving northward at an accel erated rate of speed and shoukl pos sibly pass the southern New Eng land coast some time tomorrow morning. UPSET NAZI PLANS Beat Off Counter-Attack* Designed To Permit Or derly Withdrawal CERRETO CAPTURED Germans Attempt To Re duce Bridgeheads Used By Clark’s Men BY EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, ALGIERS, Oct. 16— (IP)—Allied troops smashing forward all across the Italian front have wrested twro vital road junctions and ten other towns from the Germans, who ■were reported officially today to be counter-attacking savagely and renewing their aerial support in a desperate effort to break away from close quarter combat. The battle north of the Vol turno river reached a new high point of fury as the Ger mans lashed out repeatedly with terrific counter-assaults designed to disrupt the Allies long enough to permit an or derly Nazi withdrawal, but the American Fifth army struck back with such speed and power as to upset the enemy’s plans. (Radio France at Algiers *aid in a broadcast recorded in London that the Germans north of the Volturno were in full retreat.) Plank Movement Both the Fifth army in the west and the British army in the east threatened to outflank the Ger mans’ Volturno river line after hurling the stubbornly resisting en emy forces back with lightning ad vances ranging up to seven miles. In a northward thrust which carried them five miles beyond the Calore river, Fifth army for ces captured Cerreto, nine miles northeast of the point where the Calore meets the Volturno, to in crease their threat to the enemy’s Volturno flank. Crashing swiftly through stiff opposition, Eighth army troops some 25 mile's to the northeast pushed ahead six miles to capture 1he important road junctions of Campobasso, virtually in the cen ter southwest. With the fall of these two points the Allies gained control of vital inland rail and highway communi cations and were in a position to menace the whole flank of the German defenders on the Volturno line by a penetration deep behind that fighting front. Several of the enemy’s fiercest counter-attacks were launched in the region of Caiazzo. a mile north of the Volturno, but the Fifth ar my finally routed the German* in grim fighting there and now has the town firmly in its posses sion. Also Take Amorosi Amorosi, five miles east Caiazzo on the east bank of the Volturno, also fell to the Fifth Army, which gained control of the high ground in that important sector. The tak ing of Amorosi enabled the Allies to straddle the Volturno along two miles of its northward bend above its confluence with the Calore. At several other points the Ger man lunged out toward the river in attempts to reduce the bridge heads through which Lt. Gen. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) Australians Make Gains InUria, Faria Valleys ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sun day, Oct. 17 —— Australian troops moving toward the Jepem ese base of Madang, New Guinea, rave scored advances in the Uria and Faria Valleys, General Mac Arthur reported today in a com munique. In support of the troops, Mit chell Medium bombers strafed from Sio to Saidor, dropping 35 tons of bombs. Writing from an advanced New Guinea post, Associated Press iVar Correspondent Robert Eunson said the Mitchells skimmed the coast above Finschhafen at no ligher than 150 feet to deal death m Japanese retreating northward from that Allied-won base. “The strike hammered villages | to the ground,” Eunson said. Places where Japanese might he hiding were razed, including a mission building on tiny Sio is I land. i In the most advanced of the j newly won central Solomons, .Vella Lavella positions of the Americans were raided by Japan ese planes, the communique said. In the sector northwest of Aus tralia, Liberators bombed the Japanese-held Aroe islands and destroyed an intercepting fighter. Japanese bombers made weak raids on Finschhafen and Cape Sudest, New Guinea. In the South Pacific, to the northwest of Vella Lavella in the Solomons, light naval units down ed an enemy float plane over Shoiseul.