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["served By Leased Wire Of The ^ ^ --- Issh Utlmtngimt fHimratg §tar -5S T7,7~~7U—NT0. 249 " ” ~ --— -—-—-—----— -' —j ___WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1943_ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Reds Racing To Kherson; Seize Towns Don Cossacks Wiping Out Remnants Of Fleeing German Army VITAL sector taken More Than 80 Cities And Hamlets Fall To Ad vancing Russians LONDON, Nov. 3.—Rus ci'in troops raced today to within 24 miles of Kherson, Black Sea port at the mouth f the Dnieper river, as they cleared the faltering Ger mans from the vast steppes between the Dnieper and Karkinit bay on the Black Sea. Moscow announced to jlore than 80 towns and hamlets fell to the Russians, who advanced more than 10; nli!es in the last 24 hours to sweep up the town of Bol sb.oi-Kapany on the Kherson pevekop railway in their most direct threat to Kher so11 Don Cossacks, under plane (7 v and supported by tanks v,-’'p wining out the last rem r"1* of the German army r - ir> disorder. ! Other Areas Captured Soviet forces to the north in the Dnieper bend captured at least seven more populated places south 's, est of Dnepropetrovsk, said the < •• Moscow communique, record ed by the Soviet monitor. The communique for the second dry made no mention of the Cri mea. hut German reports said the Russians, by-passing the sealed-off peninsula, '"ovc using amphibious j combat hams of land, sea and i civ forces which wiped the Ger mans from the Caucasus to attack the Crimea. They reported a landing south oi the Kerch peninsula on the eastern side of the Crimea, caus ing the German 17th army con siderable difficulty. Berlin broad casts admitted stubborn resistance to the Nazi counterattacks. Berlin earned its forces had reduced tlwe I size of the bridehead. , The Russians also failed to men tfontinued on Page Three; Col. 2) ; -V SOLDIER KILLED , IN STREET FIGHT —- ( Servicemen Battle; One : Thrown Through Plate ] Glass Window 1 One soldier is dead and another under arrest following a street fjht. Tuesday night near Front and Grace streets, it was report 'd Wednesday by police headquar ters. Acting on a request by Military . oace' the names of the two men involved are withheld from publi cation pending a full investigation, i A was learned. According to the police report, ‘ ■e pair became involved in an argument in a iocal news dealer’s P and after one of them struck ■ ’ e other with a bottle, both were ejected from the store. A street then started and one of the i"icuers threw the other into a ,aate glass window in the Singer ' ,'.laS Machine company office. -hei hurling his opponent "!°ugn the window, the assailant ‘ ®a,c‘ to have grabbed him and nave thrown him into the re continued on Page Two; Col. 6) j WEATHER North _, FORECAST: today ' cAROLNA; Continued cool uuErteni stal"lard Time) Meteornu "rather Bureau) - •:2 °; 8,ral data for the 24 hours 6 p. m., yesterday. i.o0 Temperature P. m., 65 7:30 a- m- 60. 1:30 Minii cq. °,,p' m- 60. Maximum 76; Jm 50: Mean 68; Normal 59. i i,i Humidity P- 'ni, % 7:30 a* m-» 72, 1:30 ; ■’ v,> ‘.30 p. m., 62. Tnfai t Precipitation ‘ft. 0.6™ inchest ^ ePding 7:30 "“"hichls"06 tlle lirst of the month, TIDES FOE TODAY ‘"’mington HI«H LOW ,, 2:09A. 9:34A. tlasonboro Inlet 2:55P- 10:21P .. ‘-12:01A. 6:14A. Woore's Inlet 12;45P. 7:12P. K. -- 6:19P. Topsail Inlet 12:50p- 7:17p 'Elmore'.. ‘-12:11A. 6:24A. times Eastern'«^V-i?:55P- 7:22p , Sunrise 6-35 » n? *Sdard) > ' f. " ' '■ i24« Sunset, 5:1’ p. m., Fear Rive?"s(eJ °nsct' 11:28 P "c'li i da , at a lagC 81 Fayetteville at 3 a- m„ 9.34 £eet. I Three Jap Destroyers, Eight Merchantmen Sunk By Allied Fliers SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Thurs day, Nov, 4—UPi—Gen, Douglas MacArthur’s air arm inflicted the worst defeat yet adminis tered to Japan’s sea borne pow er at the New Britain strong hold of Rabaul Tuesday, send ing three enemy destroyers and eight large merchant vessels to the bottom of Simpson harbor. The devastating attack ac counted for 94,000 tons of ene my shipping—50,000 tons sunk outright and 44,000 severely damaged—and, in brushing off frantic enemy interference In the air, the Allied bombers shot down 67 Japanese planes. Nine teen of the raiders were lost. Only 260 miles southeast of Rabaul in the top-most Solo mon islands, U. S. Marine as sault forces expanded their beachhead on the west central shore 0f Bougainville where landings were made at dawn Monday. The raid on Rabaul nipped a Japanese counter-attack which was being prepared to contest the Bougainville invasion, Gen eral MacArthur said. PLANS UNDERWAY IN CHEST DRIVE Executive Council Meeting Held In General Chair man’s Office The Executive Council of the Community War Chest Campaign met Wednesday night in the office 3f the general chairman, N. E. Drexler. Each division chairman was asked to report on the pro gress of his division, and Mr. Drexler said that plans were well ander way for the entire drive and that all divisions would be set and ready to move on sche dule. The campaign of the North Car olina Shipbuilding company is set :o open next week and will con :inue for two weeks. The Atlantic Coast Line division will open its campaign intensively he week of November 15, The industrial, commercial, aublic employe, national firms and :bain stores, and schools divisions are completing their individual init organizations this week and iext week, and will start their active solicitation the week of No /ember 15. The military division has start 'd its campaign, and the Men’s md Women’s divisions will open heir intensive drive on Wecines lav Nnvpmher 17 The country division will open ts intensive drive Monday, No vember 15 after a “kick-off rally’ cheduled for that evening. Mr. Drexler announced that ail iivision leaders have been selected, md that they were actively set ing up their own leaders. These division leaders are: Spe ial Gifts division—E. L. White; forth Carolina Shipyard division— itorer P. Ware; Atlantic Coast jine division—Robert Scott; Com nercial division—J. G. Thornton; lhain Stores and National Firms— lanald Stewart; Industrial divi ;ion—Walker Taylor; Schools divi :ion—H. M. Roland; Public Em ;!oye division—H. R. Emory: den’s division—Warren Johnson: Vomen’s division — Mrs. W. G. Whitehead; County division—The lev. H. S. Strickland; Military di vision—Col. Dyke F. Meyer; 'legro division — The Rev. R. Irv ng Boone; Speakers bureau—J. J. LeGrande. MEDAL AWARDED LONDON, Nov. 3—W)— Lt. Col. Frank Capra, motion picture di rector, was presented today a Le gion of Merit medal by Le. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, commander of United States Army forces in :his theater, for outstanding work in planning and producing a series rf motion pictures for an Army orientation course. UMW Orders Miners Back Into Pits; Lewis ^nd Ickes Agree On Wage Pact; Alii 0 Puncture Massico Ridge Sector NEW RETREAT IS Enemy Confronted Witl Necessity Of Forming New Line APPIAN WAY GRASPED Clark’s Fighters Follow Closely Behind Gre nade Attack ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Nov. 3.—(IP —The second of a series o: major German defense linen before Rome — the Massic< ridge bastion — has beer punctured at two points br Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Allied Fifth Army, head quarters announced today confronting the Nazis witl the imminent necessity o: falling back at least 14 morn miles to new mountain posi UUI1S. Clark’s fighters made se rious breaches in the ene my’s front by slugging then way onto dominating height! both of Massico ridge anc San Croce mountain, foui miles to the north. The ad vance made the valley be tween the two slopes unten able for the enemy and gave the Allies possession of an other stretch of the vital Ap oian way to Formia, Terra cina and Rome. Artillery Moves Up Following closely behind th< grenade - throwing infantry, Fiftl Army heavy artillery moved ont< commanding positions from whicl to hammer the enemy’s expectec withdrawal across the Garglianc river valley toward the 4,600-foo' Aurunci mountain range. There was scant prospect, how ever, that Allied troops could move out into the mine - strewn vallej swiftly pnough to trap any sub stantial portion of German forces retreating from Massico ridge. (Continued on Page Three; ol. 5) Germans Order Drive To Keep Kotor From Being Invasion Gate LONDON, Nov 3 —<-T>— In an ap parent effort to keep the great Yu goslav port of Kotor from becom ing an invasion gateway to the Balkans, the Germans were re ported today to have ordersd £ fresh drive to crush patriot re istance from Dubrovnik to the Greek frontier. Both Partisan ana Yugosla\ government sources confirmed tha' strife between the forces of Gen Draja Mihailovic and Gen Josip Broz had surged up in blood} form, but despite this internal division, heavy Nazi forces are tied up in thus far futile efforts to stamp out Guerilla, activity. Besides carefully nurturing strife between Tito’s Partisans and the Chetniks, the Germans alsc are spreading false reports of Al lied landings and patrio successes to lure more Yugoslavs into oven resistance so they can be trapped, the Yugoslav information office in Cairo said. — - Senator Byrd Demands Punishment For Lewis Under Anti-Strike Law WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—«S— Senator Byrd (D-Va), declaring the coal strike is in violation of the Smith-Connally anti strike law, demanded today that John L. Lewis “be punished like any other citizen who has de fied his government in time of war.’* “Had an industrialist sabo taged the war effort to even a fraction of the degree that John Lewis has done,” Byrd assert ed in a statement, “the presi dent would have held him up to ! the most severe public con , demnation as a traitor to bis country. ! “But all officials of the gov i ernment treat John Lewis with such awe and unctuous defer ence as to make the ordinary citizen wonder: ‘Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he had grown so great.’ ” OAKES FAMILY TRAGEDY BARED . Crown Rests Case Against de Marigny As Wi dow Testifies NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov 3.—W Sir Harry Oakes’ widow told her story of a bitter family tragedy today in a highly-emotional climax to the trial of Alfred de Marigny, and the Crown rested its case against the son-in-law who is charged with the murder r,of the ; aged multi-millionaire, j The calm, poker-faced de Marig , ny almost immediately started for the witness stand to defend himselt i against the accusation, but Chief Justice Sir Oscar Bedford Daly de cided to postpone his appearance , until tomorrow. Thirty-four witnesses had testi fied and the deposition of another . had been read when Attorney Gen eral Eric Hallinan announced at 3:18 p.m.: “That’s the Crown’s case, your honor.” Sir Oscar gave de Marigny the choice of remaining silent, of giv ing an unsworn statement from the barred prisoner’s dock, or of testifying under oath from the wit ness stand and submitting to cross examination. . “I will testify,” came the clear, loud voice of the defendant from the dock. The first witness for the defense was surveyor John Cox, who in troduced a plan of de Marigny’s Victoria street cottage. As he fin ished his brief testimony, de Ma rigny arose in the dock and made ready to go to the stand and tell the story he had signalled report ers that he was anxious to reveal. Sir Oscar decided, however, that jurors first should see the cottage, and they were taken there upon the immediate adjournment of court. The courtroom was a bedlam as the crier announced adjournment, and spectators realized that the most dramatic day of the sensa tional trial had ended. For 14 days of de Marigny’s trial, Hallinan had built his case of circumstantial evidence, and to day he called upon the broken, grieving woman best able to tell the jury about the family under currents which might establish a motive for the crime. Lady FJunice Oakes—her voice occasionally breaking with the sor row which came to her when her husband’s beaten and burned body was discovered here last July— (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Community War Chest Facts Scattered all over the world are 30,000,000 refugees from the Axis needing friendly help to re-establish themselves. These and other, needs on the Unit ed Nations front and the home front are served by the 27 agencies participating in tho Community War Chest Cam paign of Wilmington and New Hanover county that opens during the week of November 8. J *- — I Coal Is There—But Miners Are Not Under the deserted loading tippies of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal company mine at Covercale, Pa., gondola cars stand ready to receive coal vitally needed by the nation’s war industries. Japanese Declared Geared For Five Years Of Battle By RAYMOND P. CRONIN and RUSSELL BRINES (Copyright, 1943, By The Associated Press) PORT ELIZABETH, UNION of South Africa, Nov. 3. —(/P)—The Japanese people are well geared for war and despite hardships at home are firm in morale, ready to fol low their leaders for at least another five years. These leaders are convinced that Japan eventually will lose the war, but the masses are kept in the dark and preparations are being made for a “last man” defense of the new Oriental empire with the hope that Tokyo at the peace table, by her show of strength, will be able to remain a first class power. These are the salient points of Japan’s situation as we see it, based on accounts of travelers recently in Japan, upon advices filtering through the strict Japanese censor . ■' ---Jishin nnH nnnn nnr ovnorioneop or GIANT U. S. RAID BATTERS GERMANY Wilhelmshaven And Other Points Smashed In Mighty Attack LONDON, Nov. 3.—Iff)—The lar gest force of heavy bombers ever sent out by the U. S Air Force —probably 500 or more Flying Fortresses and Liberators — bat tered its way with Lightning and Thunderbolt protection through strong German opposition to smash the important port and naval base of Wilhelmshaven and other tar gets in northwestern Germany to day. Without detail, a DNB dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio and recorded by Reuters said the RAF attacked Cologne, Germany's most bombed city, after nightfall. The Rhineland industrial center previ ously had been raided 122 times. The American raiding force de stroyed 34 German planes, 18 fall ing to the heavy bombers and 16 being shot down by the escorting fighters. In other daylight oper ations over occupied France and Holland Spitfire pilots knocked down 12 German fighters, and Ma rauder bombers two, bringing the total loss for the day tc 48 for the Nazis. The total Allied losses for the day were five heavy bombers, two medium bombers and three fight ers, a joint Air Ministry and U. S. Air Force communique said. The cross-channel air war con tinued after dark with a short alert in London—indicating Eng land’s 13th German raid in 19 nights—and German radio stations went off the air, often a sign that the RAF is raiding the continent. The record raid by the Fortress es and Liberators followed earlier sweeps over the continent by the Eighth Air Force Marauders es corted by RAF, Dominion and Al lied Spitfires in attacks on enemy airfields at St. Andre de L’Eure and Tricqueville in France and Amsterdam-Schipol in Holland. In other operations Typhoon bombers raided shipping along the French coast, damaging 12 barges and four boats. Today’s attack was the sixth American raid on Wiihelmshaven and the third assault on which es corts went all the way to the tar get and back with the bombers but i (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) ; far eastern correspondents and as war prisoners of the Japanese. Now that we are released from internment and our meals of crack ed wheat mush and stews, now that we are away from the pov erty and filth of the Orient and have arrived in a clean and friend ly land of automobiles and tele phones—short, now that we are fiee-we can tell the story. The best evidence indicates that the Japanese militarists are put' ting all East Asia on a total war fare basis with a sharp eye out in anticipation of attacks by the Allies, constructing a series of de fense lines and using as fully as possible the great manpower re sources of the lands they have overrun. Japan boasts of naving all the raw materials she needs, but she is sorely lacking in high octane gasoline and high grade lubricat ing oil, neither of which is avail able from the Netherlands East Indies oil fields. The people of Asia are being assailed with propaganda attack ing British and American “imperi alism” and are being told that long, defensive battles lie ahead for them, under Japan’s benevo lent guidance, to prevent their be ing strangled by the Allies. Nippon’s militarists anticipate a big land smash against Burma but expect no trouble from Soviet Asia. Nevertheless large JaJpanese forc es are kept along the borders of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) I t - $1.50 A Day Increase Provided Fo r Workers Amount Disapproved By WLB Will Be Brought Under Formula By Cutting Lunch Period In Half WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—{£>)—'The United Mine Work ers and Secretary Ickes agreed tonight on a wage contract ending the nation-wide coal strike, and providing $1.50 a day earnings increase for soft coal miners. T„. The $1-50 figure — amount asked by the union in the Illinois agreement and disallowed by the War Labor Board —would be brought under the WLB’s formula of allowable REPUBLICANS SEE VICTORY IN L .4 Trend Of Elections Give GOP New Cause For Hope WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—OP)— The Republican party’s sweep in yesterday’s off-year elections in New York, New Jersey, and Penn sylvania and its close race for governor in normally Democratic Kentucky encouraged most G. O. P. leaders today to predict victory for their party in the 1944 national elections. Simultaneously, the stock of Gov. Dewey of New York for the Republican presidential nomina tion appeared to turn upward de spite Dewey’s press conference statement that nothing had hap pened to change his intention not to be a candidate. A main issue in the New York election was Dewey’s record at Albany and the outcome of the balloting led to a renewal of “draft Dewey” talk. New York Republican county leader, W. Kingsland Macy, said the vote “should increase the already spontaneous demand over the country for him (Dewey) to take the Republican nomination for the presidency.” However, Wendell L. Willkie, G. O. P. standard bearer in 1940, is one of those who believe Dewey will not run under any circum stances and that no one else at this time is a serious contender against him (Willkie) for the nomination. New Deal Democrats were not saying much about the elections, but they had previously express ed confidence that President Roosevelt could halt the Republi can trend, if he runs again with the war still on, as he did in 1940 after the Republicans had scored heavily in the 1938 elections. James A. Farley, New York Democratic state chairman who broke with President Roosevelt over the third term issue and is quietly opposing a fourth term, was the first Democrat to com ment. He said the American peo ple are “still dissatisfied for any one of a number of reasons.” He expressed hope that the results would “have a sobering effect on those who guide the destinies of the nation.” The Republicans now hc*/e 298 House members, counting the two they elected in yesterday’s voting in New York and Pennsyl vania, against 221 Democrats. Hence, they would need only to hold their own and unseat six or seven Democrats next year to (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) unci eases uy cutting in nalt the 30-minute lunch period. The agreement was an nounced first by the United Mine Workers policy commit tee which made public a tele gram instructing striking miners to resume production of coal “at the earliest pos sible moment." Satisfactory Agreement Telegrams sent to local unions said a satisfactory wage agree ment” has been executed between the government, through Secre tary of Interior Ickes, and the United Mine Workers, effective immediately and continuing through the period of government operation of anthracite and bitu minous mines. “Let every member recognize that the nation's imperative need for coal requires the most prompt action in restoring the mines to full production,” the telegram said. They were signed by John L. Lewis, John O’Leary and Thomas Kennedy, officers of the UMW. The Interior Department then made public a “memorandum of agreement.” It increased the soft coal miners’ earnings $1.50 as originally proposed in the Illinois agreement. The War Labor Board had trimmed that sum by 37 1-2 cents a day, which will be restor ed by using half of the lunch pe riod in productive work. The agreement is subject to War Labor Board review. The exact effect in dollars and cents of applying the Illinois plan to the other producing areas will depend upon the figures that are (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) STATE ACCLAIMED INDUSTRIAL AREA Manufacturing Publication Stresses N. C. Rise In Nation Sound acclaim was given the state of North Carolina in the Oc tober publication of the “Manu facturers Record,” industrial sur vey magazine, which devoted it self almost exclusively to a com prehensive study of the industrial and agricutral might of this state in the present global conflict. The publication awarded praise to all phases of North Carolina’s war time economy with special men tion being made of the North Car olina Shipbuilding company located here in Wilmington which has pro duced 126 victory ships in 19 months. Geographically, North Carolina is a state of amazing variety (Continued on Page Three; Col. 41 Kirke Simpson Says: Fresh Disasters Impending For Foe Just Year After El Alamein Battle It is just a year since the ebb tide set in against the Axis at el Alamein in Egypt—and fresh dis asters are impending fo” what is leP of that bloody fellowship in Russia, in Italy, in the far Pacific, in the Bay of Bengal theater—and on the German home front. Within the 12 months since the British Eighth Army break-through at el Alamein November 3 last, Nazi victory hopes have plunged from their highest crest to t h e depths of despair. The signs are many and portentous that German morale is beginning to crack, that Japan’s leaders know the doom that awaits them and the nation they have sacrificed to forward their military ambitions. Next Sunday, November 7, is the anniversary of American and British landing in French North Africa to clamp down the westerr jaw of the vast Mediterranear pincer attack that has sheared It aly away, totally eliminated dan ger of a Nazi-Japanese junction, and paved the way for the de veloping three-way Russian-Allied advance on Berlin It was on No vember 3, a year ago, however, that the grim curtain raiser for the stupendous drama came at ei Alamein. The British army of the deserl victory, now linked with the Anglo American Fifth, still is pressing the pursuit that began at el Ala mein. It is storming up the Adri atic flank of the Italian peninsula with 2,000 miles of unbroken vic tories behind it and Rome all but in sight. Just ahead of the center of the Allied line in Italy where the Fifth | and Eighth armies merge, the i main communication keys to the | Nazi defense front for Rome, Ven. [ afro and Isernia, have been i brought under gunfire from cap ! tured heights. Westward the Fifth has cleared the crest of the Mas sico ridge and taken Mount San Croce, foreshadowing quick col i lapse of the coastal anchor of the Massico-Vasto Nazi front. Allied troops have set foot on the upper main highway to Rome, less than 90 miles distant along the Naples-Rome road. In comparison to the vaster mil itary disasters dogging Nazi arm ies in Russia all the way from the Ealtic to the Black Sea, such a new Allied break-through in Italy would be just another creeping, I (Continued on Page Three Col. 3) r Walter Lippmann Says: United Nations Facing Revision Of Policies Because Congress is about to make a new declaration we must not suppose that the United States alone needs to alter its foreign policy. Britain and Russian, each in its own way, and all the other United Nations as well, are faced with the need of revising as radi cally as we need to the guiding lines of their pre-war policy. None of the three powers at Mos cow can look back upon its course since 1918 and fail to see how very nearly it led to disaster—Britain’s to a war for which she was un prepared and without sufficient al lies, Russia’s to a war which brought upon her one of the most devastating invasions in history, America’s to a war in which we have suffered humiliating defeats end have at gigantic cost to fight all over the world. It. must not then be said, and it must never be thought, that the declarator by Congress and Secretary Hull’s voyage to Moscow mark a change in American policy alone. If, as we have reason to hope, Moscow is a new beginning, it will be onlj because all the United Nations have learned something importan' from their mistakes. We now know that their com bined power is needed in order tc defeat the German-Japanese plar of conquest. It is therefore evr dent that if their power had beer combined before the war begar they would either have preventec the war or would have won H morequ’Ckly and .t cost. United now, we stand to wr a complete victory over our ene I (Continued on Page Ten, Col. 4)