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Served By Leased ffire 01 ^ I REMEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS nwiuimKii KEWS AND FEA TORES PEARL HARBOR With Complete Coverage Of anil giT>>« Slate And National News AND BATAAN /PL- 76 —NO. 251___,_WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1943___FINAL EDITION_ESTABLISHED 1867 WLd Locked In Arguments On Coal Wage No Indication Seen When Vote May Come On Latest Row IN CLOSED SESSION deliberations Resumed By Board After Day Of Indecision WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.— (ZP)—The War Labor Board ’vas locked in argument to night over the Ickes-Le*jf; coal wage agreement, and there was no indication when g vote might come on the question of approving it. A vota originally had been scheduled for 11 a. m. (E. W. T.) Members said last night after all-day study of the proposal that there was an agreement to take a ballot at that hour this morning. In stead. the board remained in session behind closed doors all the forenoon, recessed for \ lunch, and then resumed de I liberations which went on in ■ i. p IV Board Must Okeh Plan The board must approve the agreement if it is to become ef fective. and reports from the coal fields said many miners were de fying a return to work until it acts. Partial operations were re amed in major producing states. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, ordered the strikers to resume production as I quickly as possible after he and [ Secretary of Interior Ickes. as gov I emment operator of t h e seized ! mines, agreed Wednesday on a working contract for the period of government operations. One WLB member said tonight at the start of a dinner recess (6:50 to 8:30 p.m. EWT) that the board hoped to reach a decision - on the agreement within hours. This contract embraces essential teatures of the pi-evious agreement negotiated between Lewis and the IB'mois operators association but j ! tamed down by the WLB. To meet > VTB objections to the SI.50 a day increased earnings provided in the Illinois proposal, Lewis and Ickes proposed to increase the working fee 15 minutes by cutting the 30 Einute lunch period in half. It would mean a basic wage of 5550 a day for an 8 3-4 hour “por tsi-to-portal” working day. The scale has been $7 for a 7-hour bay calculated on the basis of time spent at the coal face or seam. Anthracite miners, adding 15 ma ntes to their 7-hour working day by a similar cut in the lunch pe riod. would receive 37.8 cents a M; increase in earnings. With coal production reduced by the series of earlier scattered strikes as well as the general shut down beginning last Monday, there were increasing reports of fuel shortages. Governor B. B. Hiokenlooper an nounced at Des Moines that the h'wa siate capitol was so nearly ;tit of coal that a half-time heat ln- program was being instituted. At Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the - cart of the anthracite belt, it was decided to extend the Armistice Jay school holiday until the fol ov. mg Monday because schools 5re short of fuel. Reports on the progress of re ^.Mung the mines to production in cluded agreement, but op (Contmued on Page Five; Col. 6) FDR ANNOUNCES CHINESE TALKS Momentous Conference May Herald New Drive Qn Japanese WASHINGTON. Nov. 5.—(FI—In -nomentous conference at Chung ring, American, British and Chi nese military men have reached complete agreement on the conduct and supply of continental oper ations against the Japanese, Pres ident Roosevelt announced today. Mr. Roosevelt told his press-ra dio conference that the conference was extremely successful but he could not go into details. He did say that among those at tending was Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Allied supreme commander in Southeast Asia. This suggested that the conference was primarily concerned with coordina tion of all forces for the reconquest nl Burma which, it has been made clear, is the primary task assigned to Mountbatten who has establish ed headquarters in India. There was nothing to indicate, however, whether a move against Burma is now imminent. In other discussions of the war, the president: 1. Indicated that the island-hop ping stage of American operations in the Southwest Pacific is in its last phases. He said that in at tacking Bougainville island the American forces are getting set to knock out Rabaul. the key Jap anese base in that whole area. Ra baul is on New Britain island to (Continued on Page Five; Col, 5) HOSPITAL UNIT GETS NEW BEDS Impossible To Determine Exact Date Of Ex tension Opening Beds for equipping the new three-story addition to James Walk er Memorial hospital arrived Fri day and are being unpacked, it was learned from Superintendent Charles W. Mangum. The beds are of the Gatch type, complete with raising and lowering devices. Although other equipment such as wheel chairs and dressing car riages has also arrived within the last few days, it is still impossible to determine the definite date of occupation of the addition since many items of essential equip ment are still lacking. Articles such as sterilizers which require the use of much critical material will probably account for delay as the local institution must await its turn in delivery of these items. The switchboard for the annex ! is being installed this week so that when the building is finally ready for occupancy it may be connected with the communication system of the main building with out delay. As materials and equip ment arrive they will be put intc place insofar as possible so tha1 occupation of the building will no1 he unnecessarily delayed. The Board of Managers of the hospital met Thursday with re presentatives of the County Com mission and the City Council foi preliminary discussions of opening (Continued on Page Two; Col, 4) City Council Planning New W /®r Battle - £ jn Of Fight For Bluff Line * V f Is Slated # - vf/ORTS CONSIDERED Delegates To Washington Hearing Return With New Data The city council elected to continue its fight for exten sion of the water pipeline to King’s Bluff Friday at a spe cial session when members voted to appeal the decision of the War Production Board which denied Wilmington’s latest plea for materials for construction of the project. Appeal To Be Prepared After considering the reports of W. B. Campbell, city attorney, City Engineer J. A. Loughlin and Con sulting Engineer W. C. Ilsen, who returned Friday from a trip to Washington where they presented the city’s project to the War Pro duction Board for a hearing, the council instructed Mr. Campbell to prepare the appeal to be forwarded to the Appeals and Review Board of WPB. Mr. Campbell said Friday the data would be arranged and the appeal prepared without delay and sent to Washington. There is no fixed time for action by the board on the appeal, but Mr. Campbell estimated it might take two weeks for a reply to this latest move by the city. Meanwhile, city officials an nounced plans to compile a com prehensive report on the entire pipeline project problem for sub (Continued on Page Five; Col. 8) MARIGNY’S LIFE - BARED IN COURT Defendant Remains Calm Under Attorneys Cut ting Queries NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 5—W— The cutting questions of Attorney General Eric Hallinan laid bare Alfred de Marigny’s private life today before the Bahamas Su preme Court jury which is trying him for the murder of Sir Harry Oakes, his rich father-in-law. In a voice seemingly soft, but razor-sharp with sarcasm, the white-wigged Crown's attorney sub jected the poker-faced defendant to a, merciless, hours-long cross examination directed at breaking down his testimony that he was asleep at home the night the el derly Sir Harry was struck on the head and set afire. _ Even as he told intimate de tails of his part under Hallinan’s goading, de Marigny remained calm and sure of himself, his temper under control. The handsome husband of Oak:** eldest daughter Nancy managed to parry with some thrusts of his own, while every spectator whc could squeeze into the tiny court room listened in tense silence t.c the heated exchanges. Only the insistence of stern Chiei Justice Sir Oscar Bedford Dal^ and police that traditional Britist court decorum be observed kepi the session from being turned intc a circus-like field day. Outside the courthouse police halted the sale of soap boxes offered at two shill ings (40 cents) apiece for use as seats inside, and officers held back a crowd. Sir Oscar barred camp chairs from the chamber, and permitted (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) _\r_ WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA: Cloudy and warmer today. (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., 51, 7:30 a. m, 50, 1:3( p. m., 71, 7:30 p. m., 57. Maximum 73: Minimum 47, Mean 60. Normal 59. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 78, 7:30 a. m., 81, 1:3( p. m., 71, 7:30 p. m.. 83. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:3( p. m., 0.01 inches Total since the first of the month 0.01 inches. Sunrise, 6:36 a. m.. Sunset, 5:15 p. m. Moonrise, 2:15 p.. Moonset, 12:34 a. Tides For Today Wilmington - 4:19a. 11:40a 5:00p. .. _-p. Masonboro Inlet 2:19a. 8:34a. 2:56p. 9:16p . Moore’s Inlet .. 2 24a. 8:39p. 3:01p. 9:21p. New Topsail Inlet 2:29a. 8:44a (Elmore's) . . 3:06o. 9:26p I (All times Eastern Standard) HALFWAY TO ROME Americans Stream Through Shattered German Defenses BRITISH SLASH AHEAD Montgomery’s Forces Plunging Toward Main Supply Area ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Nov. 5.—(/P) —Halfway to Rome from its bloody Salerno beachhead, the American Fifth Armv streamed through shattered German defenses to the flood ed mouth of the Garigliano river on the Mediterranean today, while the hard-driving British Eighth Army slash ed on toward the enemy’s main supply lifeline to the Trigno river sector on the Adriatic. The two armies together overran more than a score of towns and' villages in their advances yesterday, it was disclosed at headquarters to day. FIGHTING NEAR VENAFRO American troops were fighting on the heights overlooking Venafro, a central anchor of the Nazis' collapsed Massico ridge line, and the city’s fall was believed im minent. All along the Fifth Army front German troops were falling back under continous, heavy pressure toward their next stand along the Auruuci mountain range. (D. N. B., German news agency, announced that Nazi troops had evacuated Venafro.) Hope was revived that Allied forces would fight their way into Rome, now only 75 miles away, by Christmas or New Year’s. After days of savage fighting, in which numerous Nazi tank-led (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) Gelsenkirchen Rocks Under Terrific U. S. Aerial Bombing Raid LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 6. —UP)—A great force of Amer ican heavy bombers—as large as the record fleet of 700 which hit Wilhelmshaven Wednesday —bombed Gelsenkirchen, site of three of the greatest syn thetic oil works in Europe, yesterday, and attacked the vital railway yards at Muen ster. a With a bountiful escort of Thunderbolts and Lightnings swelling the American forma tions to upwards of 1,000 planes the Fortresses and Liberators pounded the two important western German cities during what was apparently one of the heaviest ailacks ever made on Germany. Possible !V>00 tons of bombs were loosed on the two cities, to equal the amount dropped during the raid on Wilhelm shaven. Ten heavy bombers, two medium ones, and five fight ers were missing from the day’s operations, which includ ed attacks on military targets in northern France and Bel gium. The attack on Wilhelmshaven had cost five heavy U. S. bombers. KIEV OUTFLANKED BY REDS DRIVING FROM THE NORTH; ALLIES OVERRUN NAZI LINE CITY SURROUNDED Russians Suddenly Pounct Down On Ancient Ca thedral Town MANY VILLAGES TAKEN Priorka Is Captured And Svyatoshin Also Seiz ed In Drive LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 6. — (/P) — Soviet force* swarmed down from the north into the northern and western suburbs of Kiev to outflank that historic cathe dral city and surround it on three sides in a major new Russian drive that broke through two German defense lines, Moscow announced to day. Entrenched for more than a month on a Dnieper river island a few hundred yards from the eastern cliffs of Kiev, the Russians suddenly pounced down on the city from their bridgehead in the north and in a 16-mile ad vance in 24 hours broke the German defense lines one af ter the other. A number of strongly for tifed settlements fell to the victorious Russians as large German forces fled, a mid night bulletin said. Railway Is Severed The Russians captured Prlorka, three miles north of Kiev, and then smashed into Svyatoshin, four miles to the west, cutting first the railway io Korosten, 82 miles to the northwest, then the road to Zhitomir, 80 miles to the west. “Large enemy forces were rout ed,” said the Moscow midnight communique supplement recorded by the Soviet monitor. “The enemy is desperately try. ing to halt the advance of the So viet troops. He is hastily bringing up reserves of infantry and tanks and throwing them into the battle from the march. “Eleven Hitlerite counter-attacks were repulsed with heavy losses to them. About 3,000 German of. ficers and men were wiped out.” The Russians said their troops wrecked 28 German tanks and many guns and trucks in their ad vance, and in one sector captured 45 field guns, 72 mortars, 140 ma chineguns, nine large supply dumps and other war material. The Germans now could escape only to the southwest and the city appeared doomed as the Russian drive gained momentum. The Germans were expected to begin evacuating the centuries-old “mother of Russian cities" shortly, if they have not already begun their retreat. “The battle for the possession ot Kiev is now in progress," a Berlin broadcast had said earlier. Cleaning up in the south between the Dnieper river and the Blacls Sea. The Russians “completely cleared the German Fascist invad ers from the territory of the penin sula south of the Dnieper delta,” the communique said. Thirty towns and hamlets were taken back by the Soviet troops who now were opposite the mouth of the Bug river 30 nvles due south i of Nikolaev and 50 miles across the Black Sea from Odessa. East of this position, where the Dnieper comes down from its wide bend, (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) -- -- * Rabaul—Allied Objective | The real test of Jap fighting strength in the southwest Pacific is near at hand as Allied forces push closer to the big enemy base at Rabaul, New Britain. The tempo of the Allied march through the Solo mons has speeded up considerably in the last two weeks. Santa Isabel, Kolombongara, Vella Lavella, the Treasury Islands, Choiseul, Bougain ville — are all names that tell a story of mounting Allied strength and waning Jap fighting force. The relationship of the vital enemy base to the Solomons is shown in the lower map. (International). Japs Reinforcing Rabaul To Offset Allied Drives SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Saturday, Nov. 6.—(/P)—Presaging heavy naval and air battles to come, Japan is rushing both heavy and light cruisers from Truk to Rabaul in a frantic effort to halt the Allied drive up the Solomons, headquarters disclosed today. It appeared likely that at least five such convoys now are southbound over the 800 miles from Truk toward Ka _vin'onrr Alour Trolond o nrl Unbnul PUBLIC IS URGED TO FOLLOW LANES Chief Of Police Calls On Drivers To Obey Traf fic Rules Police Chief C. H. Casteen Fri day afternoon called on citizens of Wilmington to cooperate in re ducing traffic hazards by prop erly using the traffic lanes on city streets. The lanes, the chief pointed out. are plainly marked off by white lines painted onto the surface of the pavement. The purpose of the lanes is to eliminate traffic haz (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) f———— New Britain. The largest convoy spotted by Alied reconnaissance planes in cluded five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, five destroyers, two corvettes, a whaling ship and three freighters of which one probably is a transport. General MacArthur said the Jap anese are trying to "retrieve the situation at Rabaul” where Amer ican planes in eight raids since October 12 have sunk six destroy ers. damaged two heavy cruisers, a destroyer tender, a submarine, a submarine tender, as wef! as sunk a consideerable tonnage of large merchant vessels. In those raids, more than 700 Japanese planes have been destroyed or damaged. These heavy blows have kept Rabaul largely neutralized and un able to effectively cope with the invasion of Bougainville, 260 miles to the southeast at Empress Au gusta bay. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 8) More Bureaucratic Abuse (An Editorial) The main question has not been whether there is enough water at Hood’s Creek to meet Wilmington’s re quirements but whether it is salt-free the year around. When the War Production Board refuses to release enough material to extend the pipeline to King’s Bluff, on the ground that the Hood’s Creek supply is suffici ent, it sidesteps the main issue and does Wlmington a disservice. Apparently it is content to know that water may ■ flow through the city’s mains at all times and doesr' give a hang if it is nauseating when the rainfal1 small and autumnal tides are high. Repeated surveys have shown that the only source of flowing water adequate for this growing city and free from salt is behind the dam at King’s Bluff. The dam offers a barrier to salt, however high the tide may rise or far up the Cape Fear it may infiltrate. There is no assurance that the water from Hood’s Creek will not become brackish again as it has in the past. Signs of salt are plain to see there. Yet the WPB refuses to attach any weight to the city s claim to salt-free water and seems to think con sumers ought to be grateful for any water at all, whe ther drinkable or not. Wilmington has been persistently mistreated by bureaucrats snce they came into power. Its people have been subjected to unjust discrimination in food and the necessities of life in general. They ought to be used to bureaucratic persecution by now, and experi ence no particular disappointment at this new evidence of Washington’s antagonistic attitude, and it may be that they are so hardened by adversity that the ruling on water does not shock them. Abuses like an abscess, sets up its own immunity, for a time. Even so, there is no good excuse for them to take it lying down and metaphorically grovel under Wash ington’s lash. When Washington turned thumbs down on Henry Kaiser he went ahead anyway. Wil mington needs no better example than is offered by him. Let it “go it alone” as he did and take it’s chances with the bureaucrats. They could not defeat him, as his fleet of ships proves. With equal determination they cannot beat Wilmington. It would cost less to fight them through the courts than it does to replace plumbing and boilers ruined by the salt water the WPB says is good enough for this benighted community. W alter Lippman Says: Achievements Of Moscow Conference ’ Are Beyond Expectations Of World (hat H?n be sa'd with confidence Cr he achievements of the Mos ■conference are constructive 1 or.d the fairest hopes of any tj,t lre qualified to judge them, hut tden\ Mr Molotov and Mr ,'ave *n fact done everything is now possible and all that ■ j.‘ necessary. They could not aie done more. tb.; c measure ol their success is as a kfre now exists not on paper Eo]r0blUfcpiint but in reality as a w'iiph concern> the organization orde” V,i11 end the :var- will restore v, ' and can maintain the peace. ulai^e °,nh we do not have to spec abM«a,b°Ut pIatls and to debate ial r!i.C 4 .pr°P°sals the fundamen 1 ■. ill !" Stlon bef°re all men of good n°w .s how they can best de fend and most effectively develop the actual institutions which were founded at this conference. From now 0:1 the choice is this establishment for the peace of the world—improved and perfected as time and circumstances permit and demand—or chaos, anarchy, and another series of wars. Here in being as working agreements is the essential substance of the Connally resolution, the Fulbright resolution, the Republican party’s declaration at Mackinac, of what Mr Willkie. Governor Dewey, Mr Hoover have asked for. Those who would dwell on the differences are more interested in their own ad jctives and punctuation marks than in realities. The inner principle of the Mos cow agreement is exL.ceciin&j.y bim pie It is that Britain, Russia, China and the United States car maintain the peace because they will be, when our enemies are de flated and disarmed, the only powers capable of waging great wars. As long, then, as they re main united to prevent war, there ™ be no great war. Therefore, on all questions which conceit them and could divide them, they E agreed that they w.U no, cease to seek agreement If any one asks wnether they It any js a conclusive were smcer , t have tQ mak( answer They dM did not meai Ithese pledge* Jh y ia did n0 I to live up to triem I (Continued on Page Two, Kirke Simpson Says: Ne ws F rom Washington Bodes T rouble For Japs While Germany Is Reeling There was bad news for Japan last night (Friday) from Washing ton as well from the South Pacific, while Germany reeled under mul tiple blows by land, sea and air. On top of the Moscow conference from which was born the vitally significant Anglo-American-Chinese war arid peace pact, an Anglo American - Chinese operational agreement has been worked out at Chungking weeks or months er than had been hoped for in Washington and London. It is de sooner than had been hoped for in definition, to unify United Nations operations against Japan through out the whole continent of Asia from Burma to the Russian bor der. Bracketed with a Washington de signed, by President Roosevelt’s American super-bombers — B-29 — is ready for battle action test. The Chungking agreement takes on special significance. The undis closed but substantially increased radius of action and stepped-up gun power of ihe mcnster-bombers ear-mark them for the Pacific Asiatic theater, where distances are the greatest. Nazi held regions of Europe, in cluding all Germany itself, are already under Allied fire, from west and south, that overlaps, the present Fortress and Liberators, hereafter to be styled “light heavyweights” of the Allied ail I armadas, are adequate by ever} sign for the final devastating aerial blasting of Germany. The big fellows, a year and mor« under development, may see ac tion for special long-range mission* in Europe as the war there come* to its final crisis. But it seem* unquestionable that they were de signed and will be used primarily to carry the fight to Japan. This writer more than a year ago was allowed to see one of th« B-2bs in a hush-hush restricted area of a major airplane plant. He with others witnessed tests for wing elements of the ship and its land ing gear that gave astounding evi dent of the staunchness of con I (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3)J Community War Chest Facts Between 5,000,000 and 7,000, 000 Chinese are facing starva tion. For 6 years China has suf fered the devastation of total war. Through these 6 years Chinese undaunted courage has withstood every onslaught and has taken a toll of those who are our enemies. China is an indispensable ally. The United China Relief is just one of the 27 agencies in the Community War Chest of Wilmington and New Hanover county. , S t t.
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