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lls, tlmtttgtmt fBnrmtuj §>tar ™* V0I, <^:^— _ _WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 ~ HKMr urriLtK PREDICTS THAT FOE WILL ATTEMPT , TO STRIKE V. S. Pi/MTS f -- ----_____ V* award is given kihy]-Dow Guards Honor ed For Outstand ing Effort VIGILANCE IS NEEDED Colonel W. S. Pritchard Charges Men To In crease Alertness Warning that the enemy vj]i redouble its efforts tc ;uike at the source of indus Lj?j production because the failure of its submarine cam aign. Colonel William S. Ltchard. commanding offi cer of the North Carolina district. Fourth Service Com pand. presented the Army Fvcehence guidon to the Plant Guard of the Ethyl raw C h e m i ca 1 company I Thursday afternoon, and 1 r.»ed its member to main t»iB stern vigilance against I pwiMp sabotage. IVar Department Order Be award by the War Depart kh was ordered through Major General William Bryden, com ir.anding general of the F curth Service Command at Atlanta, Ga.. and presented to the guard for gen eral excellence. Addressing the guard Col. Pritchard said that it Fas for the purpose of protecting industry at its base that the aux vary was formed. “The strong arm of the U. S. Army is near to protect the plant in the event of r.n attempted armed invasion, blit it is the purpose of such organiza tions as the Ethyl-Dow guard to apprehend the individual sabo teur.” he added. He concluded that not only the guard but all Americans, in and cut of armed services, must awak en to their responsibility of pass ing on to the next generation a heritage of freedom untarnished by neglect of duty. Twenty - one smartly gray - uni formed guards with metal gleam (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) ) m CAMPAIGN TO nm NOV. 1 No Definite Goal Has Been Established By Committee Although a definite campaign foal has not been set for the an rj?l Community War Chest cam paign, the drive will begin Novem ber 8 and continue through No 'ember 23. X. E. Drexler, general ^airman of the drive announced Thursday. Tire executive committee of the f”est is expected to complete its studies and announce the goal for Wilmington and New Hanover ®ty later this week, he said, ne first part of the intensive IlVe be held among busi es establishments and will be Wowed with a thorough busi L " °'busmess and house-to j',_ 1 s°bcitation beginning dur ' 'he week of November 15 and AHHitmued on Page Ten; Col. ?) rrentiss Brow ^signs As Price Control Chief WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — (JB — Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown resigned today, telling President Roosevelt he thought the main task he set out to do—halt an upward trend in the cost of living—had been accomplished. Mr. Roosevelt accepted the resignation after first urging Brown to stay on. He is expected to nominate Chester Bowles, now general manager of OPA, to head the agency. Brown has left policy making largely to Bowles for the last two months and in offering his resignation told the President that OPA is in "competent hands.” A 54-year-old former senator from Michigan, Brown took over OPA last January, succeeding Leon Henderson, an economist who had held van'ous posts earlier un der the new deal. At the time the agency was under fire in Con gress with many members sharply critical of Henderson. Brown told friends then that he did not want the post, but was undertaking the job at Mr. Roose velt’s request. He also said pub licly that he wanted to adminis ter OPA on a "common sense” basis, and to show the American people and Congress that price control is not an imposition but a protection. In his letter of resignation, he expressed the opinion that price control has been a success and that it is appreciated by the coun try. Brown left Washington today without saying what are his plans for the future. There has been speculation that President Roose velt might offer him anotheT as signment, possibly a place on the Federal Reserve Board. Brown was a banker and lawyer in St. Ignace, Mich., before election to Congress. His defeat last fall in his campaign for reelection to the (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 1) -V YOUTHS DISCOVER OLD CRAVE STONE Marker Dated 1820 Found At Site Of Recent Excavation A new development was disclos ed Thursday regarding the skele tons which were unearthed in the excavation for the new Atlantic Coast Line office building Wednes day. A grave marker bearing the in scription, “In memory of Mrs. Mary Hanson, wife of Mr. Alijah Hanson, who departed this life August 6, 1820. Aged 25 years. Also her daughter Mary Eliza who de parted this life September 15, 1820. Aged 3 months.” The marker was discovered Thursday afternoon by two Wil mington youths, Billy Crotts and Earl Buck, at the north end of the excavation. The boys report ed that the stone was found lying unobtrusively in a pile of debris turned up by the steam-shovel. The dirst from the excavation is being hauled away from the pro ject in trucks and several persons declared that many similar pieces of evidence may have been haul ed away to different parts of the After the fact was established that these bodies were actually buried and the time of burial es ablished, many “old-timers” ad vanced the opinion that these peo ple were victims of the Yellow Fever epidemie which swept the lower Cape Fear region at ap proximately that time. WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA: Continued mild today. ,Eastern standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday, ending /eMPEBATURE p/m0, 80, ™:305p. L?6s!'Bfaximum 83, Minimum 53. Mean ^Normal 64. 1-30 a. m., 92, 7:30 a. m., 97, 1:30 P-ra”45’7&piTAilON . ^ Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 P Total “stace"-first of the month, °0° inchesTIDES FOR TODA^ Low Wilmington-t%p. _ , . 2*19a. 8:24a. Masonboro Inlet - 2:37p. 9:07p. 2 ‘24a. 8:29p. Moore’s Inlet - 2-42p! 9:12p. _ , , o.oQa. 8:34a. New Topsail Inlet-;47 g:17p. (Elmore’s ---VtY^Sard) (All times Eastern Standard) ^ Sunrise, 6:23 » 2:15 p. Moonrise. 12:15 a., M°JfSaetVayetteville Cape Fear River at9j5 feet, on Thursday at 8 a. m., Water Tank Truck Schedule Will Be Ended Here Today The tank truck which has been making a tour of the city in an effort to alle viate the city water situa tion will be discontinued Fri day, City Manager A. C. Nichols announced Thursday afternoon. Nichols stated that the sa line content in the city water supply is on the decline and is approaching normality. The salt content hit its high level last week-end and since that time has been slowly de creasing, Nichols disclosed. A noticeable difference in taste has been in evidence, and that coupled with the fact that the water has no harmful effects on the body, was given as the reason for the eliminating of tank truck deiiveriies. -V DOUGHTON SAVES WAR TAX PI NS N. C. Solon Says Adminis tration Promises To Economize WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — W— The effort to write new wartime tax legislation was saved from the brink of defeat today after Rep. Doughton (D-NC) declared that Administration officials had pro mised to bend all efforts to econ omize. On the assurance that expendi tures would be “streamlined,” the House Ways and Means Com mittee, which originates all re venue legislation, voted to con tinue to work on a tax bill, but it gave no hint on how much, if any, additional revenue might be channeled to the Treasury. Pre viously it had been indicated the committee might not write any tax bill. The cornmjttee ignored the Ad ministration’s proposal to raise $10,500,000,000 additional through higher individual and corporation income taxes and larger excises on so-called luxuries. In the midst of the sizzling tax controversy, friends of Randolph Paul, Treasury general counsel who handled Administration tax matters, said he had indicated he would resign when the current tax bill is out of the way. They quot ed him as saying “I’ve handled three tax bills, and I think that is enough.” The Ways and Means committee ballotted on whether to proceed further with a new bill after Chair man Doughton (D-NC) told the members that persons close to President Roosevelt “have assur ed me that they will make every effort to locate and eradicate all unnecessary expenditures.” He said that he had been “urging ques tioning and demanding with them. The committee vote to continue consideration of new tax legisla tion was reported unofficially to be 16 to 9. Republicans, in revolt against further tax increases, contend $10, (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) ___ ——■——~ "v alter Lippmann Says: Connally Post-War Bill Jos Many Sound Ideals c 1 ~~ tee ha, t iConnally’s sub-commit anri har aken a *ong time about it, Urging Tt®med to need a lot °f presafnn i“s has given the im tion a 'hat tbe Connaliy resolu falis shr,''veak compromise which Pione«s°r n°frthe proposals of lba Ball, H-tph ^ongress—of Messrs. Senate a? Bu/ton and Hill in the 'be House Mr‘ Fulbright in taH 1 and^I ^ r®’ 1 think’ mis‘ shown that m bebeve 11 can be iion is so ,r’ Connally’s resolu Mr. Ball’? deJ aPd wiser than complete thindn/r'hat il is more PTh* seC n?nMr- Fulbright’s. Anally red,ni?agraph 01 the main defect ,? remeclies the ^bright ??,?. weakness of the ?s Plainly that°heMr- C°nnally ?r8anize the ?at he Proposes to '"S with our ?ace by co-operat vthat is to omr?des in arms” nations. United r‘w hand left itnghbon th« eIt u much vaguer and more general as to who as a matter of fact was to have the practical initiative and was ac tively to assume the responsibility. His resolution speaks only of the “nations of the world.” Though there is no doubt that Mr. Fulbright himself in fact be lieves that the allied nations <n the present war should become the founders and primary guardi ans of the future peace, it is highly important that the Senate should say so definitely. The defect of the Ball resolution is that it implies, though in am biguous phrase, a well meant but, 1 think, unwise, undesirable and unconsidered proposal to establish an international army. His reso tions military force,” but what Mr. Ball means by this is—and I am sure he would confirm this be cause these are his owg words— “a true international force, rep (Continued on Page Three; Col. X] Red Forces Roll Nearer Krivoi Rog 1,500 Germans Die As Rus sians Sweep Up Fifty Dnieper Villages ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY Soviet Communique De clares Foe Suffering Im mense Casualties LONDON, Friday, Oct. 22 —(/P)—The Red army plung ed to within 23 miles of the industrial center of Krivoi Rog yesterday, rolling over 1,500 German dead and through 50 more Dnieper riv er loop villages in a six-mile stride toward the Black Sea, Moscow announced early to day. “The enemy is sustaining enormous losses and under the blows of our troops is re treating, abandoning arms and stores of war materials,” j said a midnight communique supplement broadcast by j Moscow and recorded by the i Soviet monitor. Berlin Admits Plight While a Berlin spokesman ad mitted the southern German army was in an “extremely dangerous” plight, enmeshed in a giant Soviet pincers, tne Russians also announc ed the capture of the center of embattled Melitopol, Crimean gateway far to the southeast, and southwest of Gomel. in memopoi, iasi major axis po sition east of the lower Dnieper which is holding up the other arm of the Soviet pincers, the Russians said their units wiped out 1,000 enemy troops and smashed Ger-1 man reinforcements in violent fighting. The streets of the city were de clared strewn with German dead , dozens of wrecked tanks, huge] 88 mm guns and other abandoned enemy equipment. The Germans, however, still hold the northern side of the city, and Moscow dispatches said whole divisions of enemy troops still were rushing northward from the Cri- ^ mea in an effort to hold the Rus- ( sians. Battering their way toward Re- • chitsa, 28 miles west of Gomel in . lower White Russia, the Russians j knocked out six more German j strongpoints, the communique said. In apparently belated reference to this Russian sweep across the 1 middle Dnieper above Kiev, Ber- 1 lin broadcasts acknowledged that 5 120,000 Russian troops supported by * hundreds of tanks had smashed ‘ through German lines on a three- ] mile front. Berlin has never ac- ‘ knowledged this new Russian cross- 5 ing of the Dnieper, and the broad cast merely located the battle as 1 “northwest of Chernigov.” The latest Soviet communique £ announced that Red army troops i flanking Kiev on the north still t were fighting to widen their posi- £ tions across the Dnieper in that £ area. But battlefront dispatches t relayed from Moscow said the Russians already had established \ airdromes on the west bank, and 1 Soviet airmen were pounding Ger- 1 man reinforcements from those t new bases. 1 Stockholm dispatches, quoting t Berlin spokesmen, said the Rus sian drive across the Dnieper loop t toward the Black Sea was t h e t greatest show of Russian strength , of the war. The German spokes- 1 men also were quoted as saying < the Germans still were withdraw- < (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) I HOPE OF EARLY CONQUEST OF ROME FA DES AS FIFTH ARMY SLOGS THROUGH MUD Hull Greeted By Molotov Upon Arrival In Moscow Vyacheslav Molotov, (left), Soviet Foreign Commissar, greets U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull upon the latter’s arrival in Moscow for the tripartite conference and past-war matters. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Moscow) Foreign Ministers Nearing End Of First Phase Of War Parleys LEIPZIG STAGGERS UNDER RAF RAIDS lig Night Bombers Fly Into Heart Of Nazi Homeland LONDON, Oct. 21.— W —The tAF’s big night bombers flew into he heart of Germany last night .nd attacked Leipzig, third most mportant Nazi industrial center, nd a key railroad junction for upplying the German armies on he Russian front. A large force gave Leipzig ill; irst large-scale blasting of the yar with a loss of 17 planes, the ame number as lpst over Han lover on Monday. Simultaneously he RAF’s indefatigable and fast Win-engined Mosquitos again har issed Berlin and other western Jerman cities in a campaign to ‘keep the sirens going-’ between ;nockout saturation raids. Leipzig, a city of 700,000, lies lmost on the Czech border 100 niles southwest of Berlin and more tian 500 airline miles from Lon on. Only Berlin and Hamburg re more important industrially to te German war machine. Not since its sixth raid of the /ar—which was as long ago as fov. 23, 1940—had Leipzig been ombed. Since then many bomb d-out plants in the Ruhr are be ieved to have been transplanted o the more remote Leipzig. The city is known to have been uming out airplane engines and o be assembling twin - engined unkers-88 fighter-bombers — the ype of craft making nuisance in ursions into England—and Mes erschmitt 109s, one of the Nazis’ Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) MOSCOW, Oct. 21—(A5)—The American, British and Russian foreign ministers met again today, with U. S. and British military leaders once more in attendance, and a British spokesman said they were nearing the end of their “very frank and full” discussions on the first topic of the agreed agenda. Maj. Gen. John R. Deane, new head of the permanent America military mission to Russia, and British Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, chief staff officer for Prime Minister W.X CIIWCICU me cuiuei ClilC with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and Commissar for For eign Affairs Vyascheslav Molotov. Their presence for the second straight day and the British spokes man’s declaration suggested the delegates were winding up the military subject—which the Rus sians have been »o eager to dis cuss fully and at the beginning of the historic conference. Col. Gen. Filip I. Golikof, a high Red army general, presented Rus sia at the first conference yester day in which the military men participated. He headed a Soviet military mission to the U. S. in 1941. “These discussions,” said the British spokesman, “have been very frank and full.” British Foreign Secretary Eden was reported as pleased over the progress to date. The reaction of Secretary Hull was not learned immediately, in keeping with the American policy to divulge noth ing until the sessions end. Nor was the Soviet attitude dis closed. but to judge by all the usual signs there was no doubt about the friendliness of the whole atmosphere in Moscow today. Hardly at any time in the history of the Soviet Union have relations been so cordial with the United States and Britain. Moscow newspapers continued to highlight the news of the con (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) Kirke Simpson Says: Germans Appear Prepared To Flee Northwest Russia Preparations for a Nazi retreat from all northwestern Russia as well as from the Crimea and the Dnieper bulge in the south are indicated in Berlin advices to Swe dish papers. They report German fortification of a defense line “south of Narva in Estonia” in anticipation of a Russian offensive in the north to match the Red army blows being struck in the south and center. There would be no necessity of such a defense line if the Ger mans hoped to hold in the north. Narva Res just within the Estonian borders on the Revel - Leningrad rail and highway system close to the Gulf of Finland coast. It is also on the Naroova river, the sea outlet from the Peipus lake chain that forms most of the Russian Estonian frontier, leaving the nar row Narva isthmus as the only land bridge between the two coun tries above the Pskov gateway, south of the Peipus lakes. f German military experts were said to predict a new Russian at tack in the Leningrad area inte grated with a renewed westward push from Nevel, 150 miles south of Pskov. The reports to Sweden added that Estonians had been warned by the Nazis of an ap proaching “national emergency.” There seems no question that the first onslaughts of the third Russian winter offensive, into which the spring - summer - fall drive from the Volga to the Dniep er is merging, will come along the Leningrad-Vokhov-Lovat front in the north. With the Nevel com munications keystone lost_ the whole German left flank to the Baltic is potentially in as tight a trap as are Nazi forces in the Dnieper bulge and the Crimea. That front has seemed badly over extended. It is dominated by two critical communications gate (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2| (FIVE JAP PLANES DOWNED BY ALLIES Several Thousand Soldiers Battling For Fins chhafen Base ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday, Oct. 22.—(A5)— Five Japanese planes have been shot down while raid ing Finschhafen, New Guinea, the jungle sector north of which fierce ground fighting is in progress. There were 30 enemy planes in the raiding formation. There were no indications in to day’s communique that the Japa anese had pushed any farther in their drive from Sattelberg. 15 miles north of Finschhafen, in an effort to forge a solid line all the way to the coast above that Allied held base. Several thousand troops are in volved in this fighting. To the northwest, Thunderbolts shot down six enemv float planes taking off at Wewak. In the Solomons, eight Japanese fighter planes were downed in a (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) 6,774 Americans Lost In Italy Before Fight For Voltumo Started WASHINGTON, Oct. 21— <A>> — American forces in Italy lost 6,774 men killed, wounded or missing before the Volturno fighting be gan, Secretary of War Stimson announced today. The total is con siderably less than earlier esti mates indicated. The secretary told a news con ference 879 Americans were kill ed, 3,047 wounded and 2,848 miss ing between September 8 and the opening of the battle of the Vol tumo. Advices earlier in the month estimated the total at 8,307—511 killed, 5,428 wounded and 2,368 missing. No figures are available on the Volturno fighting, Stimson said, but indications are that British losses will be heavier than those of the United States. The War Secretary described how ■ a company of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry led one of ; the Italian mainlandattacks and , now is “fighting in the battle ■ line along the road to Rome.” ; The soldiers were bom in Hawaii : of Japanese parents and Stimson ] described them as typical Am- 1 erican “Doughboys.” i , \ - PROGRESS IS HARD Capture Of Eternal City Placed Considerably Into Future SLIGHT GAINS NOTED Allies Have Only Made 21 Miles In Equal Num ber Of Days ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Oct. 21—(/P) — Hopes of a quick Allied conquest of Rome faded to night as Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth Army slogged forward at a slackened pace through muddy terrain a little more than 21 miles north of Na ples, just 21 days after en tering that important port. An average of a mile a day in country that was grow ing increasingly difficult and against German resistance g r o w i n g correspondingly stronger placed the capture of the eternal city, 100 air line miles away, a consider able distance into the future. Yesterday Clark’s augment ed forces registered only slight gains north of the Vol turno river as patrols probed into the enemy’s new 27 mile-long defense line that follows the rugged Massico ridge from the sea to Ven> fro. The soggy, devastated agricultural terrain posed terrific transport problems for the American and Brit ish allies. (The Berlin radio said Thursday night that “the possibility that the Allies are planning a further land ing in Italy is envisaged” in Ber lin. “German military quarters point out.” said the broadcast, “that the Allies probably desired to make up for lost time and to compensate for the delay which has arisen in the south of Italy.” Mediterranean shipping has been ‘unusually lively” since the be ginning of October, Berlin said. Fighting 2,400 feet above sea level along Italy’s mountainous backbone, Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s Eighth Army cap tured the village of Busso, about four miles west of Campobasso, and Oratino, a few miles to the north. Storming of the high ground west of Campobasso against strong Nazi resistance was essential for the movement of Montgomery’s forces along an important road to ward the highway and rail Junc tion of Isernia. From Isernia a lateral road leads southwest to Venafro, and any push along this road by the Eighth Army would threaten to flank the inland anchor of the Nazis new defense line. Apparently encouraged by h 1 a troops’ sucdfessful delaying action, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the German commander, has brought fresh forces into the fray and is offering greater resistance along the line, particularly on the Eighth Army front. Unlike the Tunisian campaign, there is little chance of trapping (Continued on Page Five; CoL S) Prices Have Risen Here Despite OPA’s Control Despite the announcement by Prentiss Brown as he tendered his resignation as OPA administrator that the upward trend in the cost of living has been halted, a sur vey Thursday night disclosed that food prices in Wilmington have risen nearly 100 per cent in the past three years. While no official figures were available, a check on grocery ad vertisements in newspapers of Oc tober, 1940, as compared to those appearing in publications this month, reveal that a large increase in the retail price of all food items has been effected. For example: round steak, a common item on nearly every housewife’s table before rationing, sold for 33 cents a pound three years ago. Today, if one is for tunate enough to locate a pound of the elusive delicacy, it will cost in -the neighborhood of 50 cents. Not only in the food line has a general price rise been noted. As evidenced by the advertisements, practicall everything has suffered a temendous increase. The same grade of automobile tire which solt for $7.95 in 1940 now retails at 111.95 up. Clothing prices show a grneral upward trend and there is lardly an article listed which does not show some gain in price. A table listing a few compara tive prices of several foods was conpiled Thursday night from the advertisements as follows: Pork chops: 1940-21 cents a pomd; 1943-37 cents a pound. Hans: 1940-19 cents a pound; 1943 34 cents pound. Fryers: 1940-30 celts a pound; 1943-57 cents a pomd. Sutter: 1940-32 cents a pound; 1843-60 to 65 cents a pound. Mar girine: 1940-10 cents a pound; 1943 2', cents a pound. Potatoes: 1940 $1.50 per hundred pounds; 1943 $J.80 per hundred pounds. Grapes: 1140-5 cents a pound; 1943-15 cents pund; 1943-41 cents pound. Lard: 1840-8 cents pound; 1943 2. cents a pound. __
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