Served By Leased Wire 01 The ^ ASSOCIATED PRESS * 1 + 4 + v j 55 tUmttgfcm nrmttg mwc -—1 ' “ --WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1943 . FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Labor rounds On Doors Foi pay Increase Senators Accuse WLB Of Surrendering To John L. Lewis raises inevitable Byrd Says Action With •Miners Wilf Create New Trouble WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.— (/p)—Organized labor pound ed harder at the door to pay increases today while Sena torial accusation sounded that the War Labor Board has “surrendered” to John L. Lewis and thus cracked the barrier against uncontrolled inflation. Chief criticism came from Senator Byrd (D-Va) who declared that the board’s sanction of a wage raise to Lewis' United Aline Workers makes general pav increases and a boost in living costs almost inevitable. Batfile Rages Hotter Labor's battle to push up the ceiling raged hotter as spokes 3r. for more than 1,100,000 non nesting rail workers appealed t- rzens for support of legisla I :n permit a flat eight cents rt'-.ir increase. rmultaneously. the Congress of H'-trial Organizations news ser ; e asserted that Congress has feed to adopt a sound tax sys rtem. "blocked effective action to roctroi prices” and, as a result, is partly responsible that “living cost have risen far beyond the level "f the little steel formula -e freeze.” The CIO organ renewed a de mand for scrapping of the little steel formula and “an upward ad justment of wages.” Commenting on a complaint of some VLB members that the board lacked adequate means of forcing compliance with its orders Senator Connally (D-Tex), one of the co-authors of the, anti-strike act. said the teeth in that law seemed plain to him. "Why don't they tell us speci fically what they want?" he de randed. “I’ll face the issue if fev will do that. I won't dodge V Byrd remarked that he was I .’’rely disappointed that the board I LB not seen fit to employ a sec tion of the act which makes it un lawful for any person to instigate w encourage a strike. He suggested that WLB “could at least have ordered an investi gation" to determine whether Lewis, the United Mine Workers* thief, was encouraging a strike and observed that “they certainly should not have approved a con tract while the miners were out on strike.” "No action taken by the Admin istration in a long time.” he ad ea' W'N have the far reaching and disastrous effect of this sur render to John Lewis when he was openly defying the government. is decision giving the min-! .1* wage increase of about $1.501 a day means that there will be a i followed mu ease in wage scales, cost of r D'V an increase in the demands T”2 and then by more ithe i f05 ,wage increase until ^controHed ■’lnflati0n "’iU become a brood*} ?rkers appeal was in wrk byCaStr0Ver the NBC net president n?TS* M* Hat*rison Hailway n! ithe Brotherhood of ber2 ,ks’ and Donald Rich i unions, o™ f°r.15 non-operating the j-. * °ressional adoption of cerfifvit'cr an*Crosser resolution, ft°nr increi}!.1 the. eight-cents an S1abi!j2afi ase conforms with the Bit. their 2 Program' would per hrepared speeches said, ontmucd on page Five. Col 4) TTt_ ' FATHER tc®evfih“ Partly cloudy and ,let -Monday. Hv ?'™ Standard lime) •MeteoroloeiVai‘ " eather Bureau) tiai!’-g t:20g o „data for the 24 hours p- m., yesterday. 1:30 s. temperature «t- 56. 7:30 n 7:30 a- ®» 39, 1:30 '-‘‘■nun, 38 \,p: 51. Maximum 64, -uean pi. Normal 56. 1:3(1 a Humidity f m' 26. 7:30 p0.’ mf47a; m- 62, 1:30 _ Total inr PreciPitation ''Tot",0 00 thehes?4 h°Urs ending 7:30 ,R inchesCC the first °£ the month, ,,'From theTT?H FST 1'0d»y s- Coast Tand , Published by v.. and Geodetic Survey.) ll!r,ington _ High JLow Kl,s°nboro inter • 13;09P V:27p . 9:44a 3:26a ji4 H'45 n ^ c 10:08p 4:04p V ,lrh" 8 -21 „ "Vi St'nsel, j :08 p. m . p P-» IVToonset %»•*?? a S =tTa.Sm8.? 9.8 ^tt'ev“te \ RAF Mosquitos Sting Berlin In New Series i Of Attacks On Morale LONDON, Nov. 14—(#)—Brit an’s swift and elusive Masquito j bombers dropped explosives on : Berl,n l*st night for the sec | ond night in succession in a new series of “morale” attacks on the German Capital. Other groups of the ply wood, twin-engined planes hit targets in western Germany. The raids all were carried out without loss and were the only air activity of the night an nounced by the British. It was the fifth straight night the Masquitos had been over Germany keeping the sirens go ing. They went out in darkness following a heavy daylight bat tering of objectives in the Ger man port of Bremen yesterday by American Fortresses and Liberators which together with escorting fighters shot down 43 German fighters, Fifteen bomb ers and nine fighters failed to return. „ The Germans broadcast that 29 Allied planes were shot down when “strong North American bomber formations attempted to raid northwestern Reich terri tory Saturday,” and that five more Allied aircraft were downed in daylight raids on western occupied territory. In the comparative lull in air activity today Britons recalled that it was three years ago to night that German planes in great numbers blasted the heart out of Coventry, in the British Midlands ANTI - POLL TAX AFNDIPNT SET Curtains Jerked Back For Quick Look At New Filibuster WASHINGTON, Nov. 14— (#) — Jerking back the curtains for a quick preview of a filibuster in the making, two Southern Senators an nounce tonight iney are preparing “several hutndred amendments” to the anti-poll tax bill and esti mated that weeks will be required for their consideration. The two, Senator Sastland (D Miss) and Senator McClellan (D Ark), said they would join “a large number of other Senators from every section of the country” in combatting the House-approved bill which would eliminate payement of a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in elections for Federal of ficials. They chaiged the bill is spon sored principally by the Commu nist party and ‘also the radical hybrid American Labor party in the Democratic organization.55 It was approved Friday, 12 to 6, by the Senate Judiciary Committee and, beginning tomorrow, is sub ject to being called up by any member of the Senate. With filibusters threatened open ly in half a dozen quarters, efforts are under way tc avoid weeks of random talk in the midst of war. Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) be lieves he has the solution with his resolution calling for anti-poll tax constitutional amendment. He pointed out that only eight stales—Georgia, Tennessee, Missis sippi, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, South Carolina and Virginia—make payment of a poll tax a voting quaulication, ana saw it was like ly that tne amendment would be zatJiied oy most of the other 40 states. The Judiciary Committee dead locked 9 to 9 on the O’Mahoney resolution Friday but agreed to consider it tomorrow. If it - were called up and passed ahead of the House poll tax repealer, the lat ter probably would remain quies cent on the calendar. Advocates of the bill declare no one should have to pay in order to vote. Opponents say the bill is an attempt of the Federal government to take over the states’ rights to specify the qualifications of their voters. Waiting for a break in the con troversy, the Senate tomorrow tackles the Bankhead bil which would direct the Treasury to spend $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 for paid government war bond advertising (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) i --- House Moving Toward Vote On Subsidies Supporters Of Bill Pin Hopes On Comprom ise Measure VETO MAY BE USED FDR May Step In If Hold The Line Plan Rebuffed WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. —(A5)—The House moves to ward a verdict this week in the long controversy over the Administration’s use of sub sidy payments to keep down the size of grocery bills. Amid indications that the issue will have a part in next year’s elections, subsidy sup porters pinned their hopes on a compromise but counted also upon a presidential veto if Congress again rebuffs the Administration’s method for carrying out this portion of its “hold-the-line” program again'f inflation. Showdown This Week The showdown will come Thurs day or Friday on a measure to ex tend the life of the Commodity credit Corporation. The House Banking Committee wrote into the bill a stringent ban against future use of subsidies and a clause pro hibiting the fixing of ceiling prices on food below production-incentive levels. Even the most ardent backers of the subsidy program admitted that their chances are slim in the House and Senate unless they can muster new strength behind a compromise which would postpone a final deci sion by extending CCC and subsi dies for a limited period. “The chief trouble,” said Rep. Monroncy (D-Okla) advocate of rubsidies, “is that the public does not reaiize just what this pro gram is doing to combat infla tion. If subsidies are removed, the grocery bills are going to get big ger. If the bills increase, you are going to get demands for higher wages. That’s how the spiral of inflation begins.” Against their argument, repre sentatives of the Farm Bloc argued that food is just as important in! the war effort as munitions, that | removal of subsidies will allow the: price of agricultural products to I ries to their “natural levels” andj (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) ! Jap Plane Transport, 6 Merchantmen Sank By American U-Boats WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—Iff* —American submarines in new raids on Japanese supply lines have sunk a plane transport and six merchant ships and damaged two other merchant vessels. Boosting the total of enemy vessels sunk or damaged by submarines to 496, the Navy issued the following communi que today: “Pacific and Fa East: “1. Li. S. submarines have reported the sinking of seven enemy vessels and the damag ing of two others in operations against the enemy in waters of these areas, as follows: “Sunk: One plane transport, one large freighter, one me dium cargo transport and four medium freighters ‘Damaged: One large freight er, one medium freighter. ‘f2. These actions have not been announced by any pre vious Navy Department com munique.” Japanese ships successfully attacked by America’s under sea raiders now stand at 346 sunk, 36 possibly sunk and 114 damaged. Nazis Believed Shaping New Winter Offensives MADRID, Nov. 14 — Iff) — The Nazis are readying a surprise win ter operation from southern bases, probably a counteroffensive in Italy, in the opinion of persons re cently returned from extensive tours in Germany and occupied Europe. They base their belief partly on recent southward troop movements and on Germany’s urgent need of a victory for its effects both on the home front on an satellite Europe. The German hierarchy is torn by inner quarrels, these travelers say. I but the German war machine has i plenty oi punch left. They insist there is something more than mere propaganda in the Nazi claim that the defensive strategy on the Rus sian front makes more reserves available than Germany had at her command last winter. These reserves are estimated at 150 divisions. Few of them, the Germans are said to believe, will be needed in the Balkans because of differences among thAnti- Ger man elements there. rhe Frfnch are rated as incapable of leal le volt, according to the informants. (Continued on Page live, Gol. 8) Doughboys Join Marines On Bougainville _i___ ^NfW IRELAND 0AIIW ,0,e, , NW ^BOUGAINVILLE BRITAIN SOLOMON IS. Go‘mo'° eJrm^PHOisfui MONO" V*1 ujlSA?//) Vella Lo'%lloC?.