SANK CLEARINGS
PASS 1942 MARK
First Ten Months Of Yeai
Show Figure Of
$395,663,363
In the first ten months of this
year, Wilmington’s banks have
handled over $33,000,000 more han
they did throughout the entire
year of 1942, D. M. Darden, secre
tary of the local clearing house
#isociation, announced Wednesday
Banks have cleared the stag
gering total of $395.6663.363.33 Jan
uary through October, whereas in
the previous 12 months, when an
all-time record for the city was
established, the four institutions
Watched a monetary turn-over of
$362,603,183.62.
Thus, the year 1943 will repre
sent a spotlighted period in Wil
mington's financial history. More
than likely, according to Darden,
it will be the peak of the current
financial upturn prompted by the
"In 1942,” Darden commented
“we were in the midst of a grow
ing period. Our war-born indus
tries were still developing rapid
ly In 1943, we have witnessed a
leveling off and a stabilizing of
those industries and our other busi
ness.”
Mr. Darden noted that the en
ormous pay rolls of the North Car
olina Shipbuilding company, Camp
Davis, the Atlantic Coast Line, and
other military installations and in
dustrial firms have, in large meas
ure, boosted the amount of money
filtering through the local banks.
He also credited the two heavy
war loan drives and the flurry of
tax -• anticipation note purchases
with helping to force the figures
upward.
The average amount of money
cleared each month of 1943 is ap
proximately 40 million dollars, Dar
den said, as contrasted with the
25 to 40 million-dollar average for
1342.
The local banks handled $37,
046,352.70 in October; in September
the figure was $48,298,410.89.
In the first 10 months of 1942,
the clearings amounted to $259,
791,790.60—100 million dollars less
than the 10-month total for the cur
rent year.
REPUBLICAN^SEE
VICTORY IN 1944
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win numerical control of the
reuse. Their prospects of win
ning tiie Senate are very slim.
The Senate line-up now is 57 Dem
ocrats. 33 Republicans and one
Progressive.
The election of State Senator
.Toe R. Hanley, Republican, as
lieuteant governor in New York
by nearlv 350,000 compared with
a p'urality of only 53.000 scored
by the late Lieut. Gov. Thomas
W. Wallace. Republican, over the
then incumbent, Charles Poletti,
Democrat and American Labor
Party nominee, in 1942. Dewey
himself won over a split ticket in
19d2 by only about 250,000.
Dewey was alone among his
party's leaders in taking a ccji
servative view of the results.
Asked to interpret the seven-state
returns from a national view
point, he said they “generally in
dicate confidence in the Repub
lican candidates who were elect
ed.”
Willkie said the returns all point
one way — “the country is tired
very tired of the present national
administration.” Gov. Jrf.n W.
Bricker of Ohio, another presi
dential nominee possibility for the
G. O. P.. believed they “presage
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), a Bricker
defeat of the New Deal in 1944.”
supporter, commented: “The Re
publican tide is running so strong
ly that the party will win in 1944,
war or no. a'ar.”
National Republican Chairman
Harrison E. Spangler and House
Minority Leader Joe Martin also
read 1944 victory in the results,
while former Senator John Town
send of Delaware, chairman of
the Senate Republican Campaign
Committee, remarked that if the
Republican trend continues his
party will “come tnightily close
to gaining control of the Senate”
while electing a president and a
majority of the House.”
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OAKES FAMILY
TRAGEDY BARED
(Continued From Page One)
laid bare the troubles which beset
one of the world’s wealthiest fam
ilies after her 18-year-old daugh
ter, red-haired Nancy, was mar
ried last year to the debonair,
twice divorced de Marigny.
Only the sound of her trembling
voice was heard in the jammed
courtroom as she related how “we
tried to make the best of a very
bad situation” once she and Sir
Harry learned of the marriage.
But soon Nancy fell deathly ill
of typhoid fever in Mexico, and
before she was recovered “we
learned that she was pregnant, and
for her health it had to be termi
nated.” There were two operations
to achieve the purpose, Lady
Oakes aaid.
“Sir Harry was terribly resent
ful,” said the widow, who once
started a sentence “the accused”
but covered her face with her
hands and added: “I’ll not use
that word. I hate it ”
“How did you yourself feel about
this matter?” softly asked Halli
nan.
"I felt as any mother would un
der the circumstances,” and her
voice at this point was steady and
direct.
“I had told Alfred to take the
utmost care of Nancy.”
She confirmed previous testimo-!
ny that Sir Harry threatened to!
kick de Marigny out of a room 1
he had reserved next to Nancy’s I
at the hospital with a plan of un
dergoing a tonsillectomy.
Nancy, who had listened tear
fully to the same testimony at a
preliminary hearing, was not in
the courtroom to hear her mother
today. She will testify later for
her husband, and may not be ad
mitted earlier.
When she left the hospital. Nancy
came to Nassau with de Marigny.
Last June. Lady Oakes said, she
eceived a letter from Nancy in
which the daughter "said they
would have nothing to’do with the
Oakes family until Alfred was re
ceived into the familv circle.”
Then, she said, she found in the
pocket of her son, Sidney, who in
herited his father’s title, a letter
from de Marigny.
“You read this letter?” asked
Hallinan.
“I think it is the most diabolical
letter a man could wtite to a child
of 15 about his parents.” the wit
ness said, her eyes flashing.
Next to the stand, as the Crown
moved rapidly toward the end of
its testimony, went suave Walter
W. Foskett. Sir Harry’s Palm
Seach attorney and long-time per
sonal friend, who told about a let
ter de Marigny’s second wife Ruth,
from whom he was divorced a
short time before he married Nan
cy. had written to Lady Oakes.
Foskett said he described the
contents of the letter to de Marig
ny, and the accused man assert
ed: "The charges are all lies” and
added that “Ruth would do any
thing to injure me row that I
am married to Nancy.”
Last February, Foskett said, de
Marigny came to him at Palm
Beach, and complained about his
relations with the Oakes family.
"He said he was stopping at
their home, but was not being
treated properly.” the attorney tes
tified. “He said he was being ig
nored and indifferently treated in
a manner quite anneying He told
me that he was Nancy’s husband
and he wished to be accepted and
treated that way.”
-V-_
REPORT CRUISER SUNK
i LONDON, Nov. 3. —Iff)— The
Berlin radio broadcast a claim by
the Japanese imperial command
that an Allied cruiser was sunk
today during a landing attempt in
tne Japanese-held island of Mono
ir. the Solomons.
The broadcast said another Al
lied cruiser was damaged.
There has been no confirmation
from Allied sources.
-V—
CAUSES OF CASUALTIES
About 90 per cent of all bomb
ing casualties in an air raid are
not caused by direct hits of bombs,
but by flying splinters, debris, and
falling sharpnel and bullets'from
Olie’A Aiua flnna
I.
UMW Orders Coal Miners
Back Into Full Output
(Continued From Page One)
finally agreed upon as travel time
in each of the areas.
With respect to this, the memo
randum of agreement said:
“In applying the opinion of the
War Labor Board to the areas
other than the Illinois areas, the
parties have assumed an average
travel time throughout the areas
of 45 minutes per day in accord
ance with the assumption by the
War Labor Board in the Illinois
case. This assumption is made
solely for the purposes of this
agreement and is limited there
to.”
At another point the memoran
dum says: “Using the Illinois ba
sic rates purely for illustration,
this is intended to provide a basic
daily wage in that area of $8.50
a day” (for an 8 1-2 hour day.)
This would be an increase in
daily earnings of $1.50 a day, for
which the miners would work (ac
tual production time) one hour
additional.
The present scale is $7 for a 7
hour day figured on the basis of
time actually spent at the coal
seam or face. The 8 1-2 hour day
would be “portal-to-portal” —
from the time the miners entered
the mine entrance until they em
erged above ground.
The sections covering the an
thracite miners also provide for
a similar reduction in the lunch
period, thereby adding 37.8 cents
per day to the earnings of all day
and monthly men in addition to
the 32.2 cents increase allowed by
the War Labor Board last week.
“All (anthracite) contract min
ers, consideration miners, and
contract mine laborers will re
ceive an increase of 37.8 cents
per start,” the agreement says.
“The proportion of the proper
share of the increase for this 15
minute additional productive work
in respect to contract mine labor
ers is to be paid by the opera***
in accordance with established
custom and practice.”
Virtually all the 460.000 hard
and soft coal miners had ignored
today President Roosevelt’s direc
tive for them to return to work.
Some members of the AFL Pro
gressive Mine Workers union
joined, in fact, in the strike.
Meantime, the shortage of coal
cut into steel production. The Car
negie-Illinois Steel corporation an
nounced it had shut down 30 of
its open hearth furnaces in the
Pittsburgh district mills.
By midnight at least 49 were
expected to be down, the company
said.
With the shortage of fuel becom
ing acute, the United States Steel
corporation announced it would
bank within 24 hours nine blast
furnaces in the Pittsburgh and
Youngstown districts, and leave
closed a furnace now shut down
for repairs but due to come back
into production this week. The
moves will cut its iron production
25 per cent.
In Alabama where coal walk
! outs October 13 preceded the gen
JAPS SAID READY
FOR LONG BATTLE
(Continued From Page One)
Soviet Siberia in a precautionary
protection of the rear against Rus
sia.
At home the Japanese are en
gulfed by a wartime fanaticism
ond jingoism which makes them
an effective part of the war ma
chine, despite such hardships as
a wartime doubling in living
costs, meals poor even to these
normaliv frugal people, and scar
cities of coal, clothing and other
necessities.
The people are dedicated to the
war, vflth nearly everyone enroll
ed in one or more of scores of
patriotic societies of varied types,
some traditionally secret, all build
ing the conviction that Japan is
fighting a “holy war’’ to free Asia
from the West.
Persons recently in Japan and
whose information and judgment
we trust, say that the Nipponese
leaders, although convinced that
Japan will lose to the Allies in
the present war, anticipate anoth
er war a generation later in which
they will lead the Asiatic races to
victory over the white races. To
this end, the Japanese are said
to be sowing the seeds of brother
hood among the Asiatics now,
along with seeds of hatred for the
whit ps.
Premier Tojo, himself, Is pic
tured as changing his war atti
tude, veering away from his old
idea of a 100 per cent military
govenment and spendng the past
six months trying to anorase the
financiers, business men and in
dustrialists who originally 'were
largely ignored.
These latter groups were greatly
dissatisfied with the cold shoulder
treatment, and are said to be re
sponding to Tojo’s present efforts
only weakly.
Tojo's aim is believed to be to
get some of these once-snubbed
groups into the government to help
absorb the shock of the full-fledged
Allied offensive when it hits Japan.
Despite these signs that the mili
taists are now grooming civilians
tr accept governmental responsi
bility for what may be efforts to
ward a negotiated peace in the dis
tant future, there is no evidence
that Japan's present leaders and
their jingoistic adherents have
abandoned the idea to fight “to
the last man” in defense of the
empire.
Only seious territorial losses,
particularly the Netherlands East
Indies or Malaya, or destruct;on
of Japan’s industrial production
would force the Japanese to con
sider suing for peace, according
to repatriates who are familiar
v.’ith Japanese politics.
The recent elevation of Mamoru
eral shut-down of last Monday
eight blast furnaces and seven
open hearths are out of produc
tion. cutting the Birmingham dis
tricts iron and steel production by
more than one-third of capacity.
Many war plants elsewhere re
ported only a few days’ supply of
fuel on hand.
Shigemitsu to the post of foreign |
minister is considered a step to- (
ward a long-term replacement of
the present tight military grip by
a government with civilians who
would take the rap domestically
for a negotiated peace.
As a former ambassador to Brit
ain, Shigemitsu was regarded as
favoring the democracies in the
years before the war, but his pres
ent sentiments are unclear.
The Japanese always have been
opportunistic, and it would be con
sistent with their history for the
leaders, when the going becomes
really tough, to attempt to save
a worsening situation with a face
saving compromise.
It is doubtful whether an unfa
vorable armistice could at present
be sold to the people, who are
drunk on war. There is some rea
son to believe that the intelligent
Japanese who can read between
the censored newspaper lines are
realizing that the retreats in the
South Pacific do not indicate vic
tories, but they would be relatively
few and they probably would keep
such opinions to themselves.
Recently, a few careless remarks
indicated that some Japanese at
least have considered the almost
sacrilegious thought of being beat
en, one remarking that “those
American soldiers are getting
tough” and another telling friends
that he rrjust go to Japan after
the war “whether we win or lose.”
The young militarists see it dif
ferently, and they set the keynote
for many. “If we are defeated
I won’t be there,” they say, mean
ing that they would jo;n the “last
man” stand. There are thousands
of soldiers and semi-militaristic po
licemen, war workers and young
students who seem attracted by
the thought of a suicidal defense
of the homeland.
They are the fanatics who make
it difficult for Japan to stop fight
ing while she Still can.
SOLDER KILLED
- IN STREET FIGHT
(Continued From Page One)
maining pieces of glass still fas
tened to the molding of the store
front.
A civilian came to the rescue
of the injured soldier and assisted
him to a cafe near Front and
Grace streets where aid was sum
moned. The police report pointed
out that a Military policeman took
charge of the injured man and
shortly thereafter, the soldier col
lapsed while awaiting transporta
t'.on to the hospital.
He succumbed to his wounds I
about 5:30 p. m. Wednesday.
Both men were from the Wil-1
mington Army Air Base, the re- j
porter stated.
RESIGNS POST
RALEIGH, Nov. 3. —UP) —A. B.
Harless, head of the State Agri
culture Department’s Market News
Service, has resigned effective
November 15 to become an official
of the Albemarle Peanut company
at Edenton, Agriculture Commis
sioner W. Kerr Scott said today.
GIANT U. S. RAID
BATTERS GERMANY
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it was the fighters’ longest trip.
The other two-way trips were to
Emden, a little short of Wilhelms
haven.
Vigorous opposition by groups of
as many as 75 German fighters
were reported by the fliers, but
they were unanimously enthusias
tic about the way the two-engine
twin-tail Lightnings—flying close to
the bombers while the Thunder
bolts provided high and surround
ing cover—kept the Germans on
the run.
The raid on Wilhelmshaven was
the first operation by the long
range Lightnings with the heavy
bombers here since a year ago,
-vkm they flew on two raids before
ic'ning the North African invasion
force. They re-appeared in this
war theater on the last foray of
the medium Marauders.
With special disposable fibre
gas tanks, the Thunderbolts have
increased their range and now
are believed capable of a 1,000
mile round trip.
The use of the Lightnings and
the specially - equipped Thunder
bolts as escorts for the Fortresses
and Liberators was interpreted as
the Eighth Air Force’s strategy to
cut the bomber losses as they push
deeper into Germany.
The few casualties today con
trasted 1c the 60-bomber less Oc
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tober 14 in a raid on Schwei^.
in which smaller forces we- P
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day were the 13th and Hi','
attacks the medium bomoers ■
made in over three and • "a"!
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