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flSTl ilmtngtnn iHanting Star ["■ ^OLjti.—NO: 261 __WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1943_ FINAL EDITION_ESTABLISHED 1867 MW MART MADE ON ACCORD WITH COAL PRODUCERS _ Or parley is noted Lewis And Operators Sit Down For Talk In Ickes’ Rooms MEETING SLATED Conferences To Continue; Contract Terjned Essential WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. __,£>* a new start was made today toward negotiation of . contract between John L. Lewl?' United Mine Workers al!(l owners of soft coal mines. . . „ \t the invitation ot becre tary of Interior _ Ickes, now operating the mines for the government. Lewis and oper ator? representing a majori ty of the soft coal tonnage sat down together in a con duce room at the Intel ioi Derailment. They talked for two hour? in a haze of bine cigar smoke and agreed to rapPi ""oi'n tomorrow. Other Reports Heard if the ssme time, there were reports that: Anthracite operators are ready !■ undertake negotiation of a con tract and may meet with UMW representatives next week. Some operators are ready to withdraw from t h e Appalachian wage conference, which has been fiie principal agency for negoti ation of soft coal wage contracts, and a new agency may be estab lished tomorrow. Ickes has indicated that the U'.vlW and mine owners must agree on a contract before the govern vnent will relinquish control of the mines which it seized after the general strike of November 1. Since any contract agreement rr. ‘ te submitted to the War La ter Board for approval, the re newal of negotiations may mark the first step too, toward a new coal crisis. (Continued on Page Two: Col. 4) -V 1 HE HEARINGS SLATED BY OPA Four City Market Retail ers Among Those Up For Penalty torn- City Market farmer retail ors and one retail establishment ■•re scheduled to appear for hear 155 on OPA charges before T. Nel 111,1 Pai'her, hearing commission w. here Thursday. Frank P. Spruill, Jr. OPA at r,;Oey. said that the hearings— . , . mark the third day’s OPA Ration hearing docket—will ask re‘ailers to show cause why J should not be restrained from ,?“? for ,0PA Price-ceiling and ra tioning violations. 8 heaiValVi0 !oUowinS would be aaa net d uhat 0PA charges gainst each were as follows: (Market J5,Ckm?n- °f Bolivia- City iiw fUer' 13 charged with sell 34'’ centc P°rk raiddling meat for <Wire vtivf1" p?URd: failing to re sole-.,. rat,ion Points on meat snd Mint ,fa,‘ure t0 P°st Prices L J 011 meats sold. Mar!teNeUpaIps- °f Supply’ City if? fre~i 61' ls charged with sell " i pork hams at prices on Page Three; Col. 51 Acute Coal Shortage Is Reported In Many Widespread Sections By The Associated Press An acute shortage of coal was reported yesterday (Wednes day) by many widespread com munities and a survey indicat ed supplies in dealers’ yards were meagre almost every where. In Dayton, Ohio, the short age was so stringent that the Portland Cement company shut down its plant there, laying off 160 workers, and H. B. Doty, district manager for the War Production Board, ordered a survey of the fuel situation of other plants. New regulations governing distribution of anthracite in 12 Eastern states and the District of Columbia were announced during the day by the Solid Fuels Administration, and in formed sources said distribu tive controls over bituminous coal probably would be issued later in the week. The new anthracite regula tions require a written state ment from a purchaser as to his stocks on hand and annual requirements — something not demanded under previous reg ulations. CITY IS GIVEN TWO RARE MAPS Old Cartographs Of Wil mington Presented By J. 0. Carr J. O. Carr, United States dis trict attorney for the Wilmington area, has presented Mayor Bruce Cameron two unusual reproduc tions of early maps of Wilmington to hang in the city Hall. The cartography of the earlier map is somewhat crude, judged bv present-day srandards and the edges are frayed and time-worn. It shows the lay of the land of Wilmington from Corey (now call ed Queen) street on the south to Water street on the north, and east and west from Front to Fourth streets. The hand inscribed legend reads: •‘This plan represents the town of Wilmington as laid out by the original proprietors of the same in the year 1733 ac which time it was agreed upon by the said pro prietors to begin the survey of their plan at a place where now lies the threshold of the north door of the house next the river now possessed by Mr. Hugh Blanning, and from thence running north half a point, west tnree poies wnicn is the middle of Market street. The course of the said street is east one-half a point and north 108 poles from th? river and of the breadth of six poles. The 12 streets parallel thereto are of the breadth of four poles each. Front street intersects all the aforesaid streets at right angles and is of the breadtn of four poles and 368 poles in length beginning at Dyers line running from thence north half a point west to the governor’s line. “The other three streets paral lel thereto are each of the same breadth and length with Front street except third street from the river which is six poles in breadth. At the place where Front street intersects Market are poles fixed exactly in the angles and lines of the said street." (A pole was 30 and one-fourth yards.) The second map presented by Mr. Carr was surveyed and drawn in Decembei 1769 by C. J. Sauthi er. Scaled by fathoms instead of Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Lt. Colonel At 24 r. - . .di. : Lt. Col. Frank A. Hill, 24, a fighter pilot with the U. S. Army Air Forces, rides on top of the auto taking him to reception giv en by his home town, Hillsdale, N. ,T. The young hero has been on lnS missions over Europe. He enlisted as a private in 1940. (International) BREAD COST PLAN STRIKES A SNAG Storm Of Protest Against Subsidies Rises To New Fury i __ - WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.— W — \ The broadest food price subsidy program yet—a $9,00U,000-a-month I plan to hold down tht cost of bread —ran head-on into specific opposi tion on Capitol Hill today while the storm of Congressional and dies in general rose to new fury. Senator Reed (R -Kas.) tackled formal announcement, saying the farm protest against food subsi understood the subsidy to millers was planned at about ' 14 cent a bushel and adding: “I'm still opposed to it. It’s just part of the subsidy program to which Congress is overwhelmingly opposed. But that doesn’t seem to make any difference to those birds.” It was learned that the bread program, including a ceiling price on hard wheat, awaits only the signature of Fred M. Vinson, eco nomic stabilization director, ex pected this week. Meanwhile, opponents of pay ments to cut consumer prices add ed new force to their attack with a parade of state agriculture com missioners and farm leaders be fore the Senate Agriculture Com mittee. E. H. Everson, South Dakota sec retary of agriculture, led the drive, contending that the end result of consumer price subsidies is infla jments anti - inflationary, arguing ! tion. OUUSlUj' ucui LJL1C that they are necessary to hold the line on living costs as a bar to demands for compensating wage increases. E'verson, Republican former president of the Farmers Union, recalled Presidert. Roosevelt’s comparison of a little inflation and the first shot of opium. 1 “In asking for a continuation, and broadening of subsidies is not the president asking Congress for more opium?” he asked the com mittee. “Has he nof already been given too many such shots?” He contended that the $800,000, 000 subsidy progran is the “prin cipal source” of excess purchas ing power and that the failure to hold the line on living costs has been in defense plants — not on farms. Subsidy opponents built up their Senate case while Administration strategists, conceding defeat in the House, based their plans on hope of a presidential veto such as blocked anti - subsidy legislation last summer. Tire anti -subsidy (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) ————■ ' Ti a^er Lippman Says: Trouble In Lebanon Shows Necessity [Tor Action On Moscow Agreement s'ratp. , le Lebanon demon ic t lr urf?ently necessary it ^4"lo,anmg »at °nce on the Wt ° . the Moscow agree Pea*"nn, 1S tbat while the four I ■IJ"ers who signed the dec • ; n Provide the nucleus of diev „J8dlnft great aggression, without'rir0"- make settlements C,ls other S. mt0 th6ir C0Un‘ French ™d Yebanon were under a 0{ Nations30,, jte *rom the League trade an 'ar"dvhen Yichy France II 1940 the Fro ^ Wjth Germany 9'-d LebanIle"ch ™l«s of Syria Fetain B, ?? cho!e to adhere to ; o connUd® at rrog°f 1941 Yichy 10,1 into Svrf German mfiltra ' >na as Vichy had agreed to the Japanese pincers movement that was to meet in the Indian Ocean, thereby isolating Russia and China and breaking apart the British Empire. To forestall this grandiose plan an army composed of Free French Belgian, British and British Im perial troops entered Syria in June, 1941, and, after a campaign against the Vichy French, occu pied the country. By this bold and successful move they closed the back door to Turkey, Egypt and the whole Middle East, and so made secure the base from which more than a year later Alex ander and Montgomery attacked Rommel. Sii < t Syria was a French man date the political administration was given by the British to the Free French, and General de Gaulle appointed General Georges Catroux as High Commissioner to the Middle East. In his declara tion of June 8, 1941, to the people of Syria and Lebanon, Catroux an nounced that he had come to put an end to the mandatory regime and to proclaim you free and in dependent. . . Your independent and sovereign status will be guar anteed by a treaty in which our mutual relations will be defined. After that the history is obscure and tangled. But it has long been known that the British and French (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) y REDS THROWN BACK NEAR ZHITOMIR; GERMANS TAKE TINY LEROS ISLAND; A/j&SD AIRMEN BOMB SOUTHERN FRANCE . _ * .. -_ y v VtR IS USED _ Luii. % Pounds British And Italians On Do decanese Hold MANY PRISONERS HELD Foe Claims 3,200 English And 5,350 Others Are Captured CAIRO, Nov. 17.—(IP)— The tiny but strategic island of Leros has been captured by the Germans in five days of heavy fighting despite a “most determined resistance” put up by its British and Italian defenders, the British Middle East Command an nounced today. The Allied forces were un able to beat off the Nazis, who subjected the island’s 28 square miles to a terrific pounding from the air, mean while continuing to land re inforcements by boat and by parachute. The battle, which began with a German land ing Friday, ended last night. Use Old Air Tactics The Germans’ tactics were si milar to those used in their capture of Crete in a major victory in this area 2 1-2 years ago, and they won for Hitler the second Dode canese island in three weeks. The British announced on October 26 the evacuation of neighboring Cos, 20 miles south of Leros, under si milar German assault. (Adolf Hitler used the Leros vic (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) PARENTS WARNED ON DELINQUENTS On Old Statute Gov erning Children Judge Winfield Smith in Record er’s court Wednesday issued a crisp warning to persons respon se for, or allowing children un der the age of 16 to. be adjudged delinquent. Reviving an old statute. Judge Smith sentenced Daisey and Pres ton Washington, Negro, to 60 days each to be assigned to the county farm, for violation of the welfare law. The Washington children first be gan their visits to juvenile court for delinquency back in 1934. Since tnat time two of the boys have been arrested nine times each, one has been picked up six times, one (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) rCommunity War Chest Facts Sponsored by the American Friends of Yugoslavia, Inc., this campaign is the first comprehen sive American appeal in behalf of the Yugoslavs. Thirty-five or more Axis divi sions are kept away from other fronts by the brilliantly executed guerilla warfare of the Yugoslav Patriots. For nearly two years the Yugoslav forces have stood alone as the only fighting armies of the United Nations on the European continent west of Russia. The greater part of this fund will provide invalid food parcels, sanitary items, and specialized aid of various kinds to the 140,000 or more Yugoslav prisoners of war in Germany and Italy. The re mainder will be used for medical supplies for Yugoslav children who can be reached inside Yugoslavia and outside their own country and for emergency aid to Yugoslav sea men, refugees and traines. The work for prisoners is to be done for the most part in cooperation with the American Red Cross and the International Red Cross. The United Yugo-Slav Relief Fund is just one of the 27 agencis included in the Community War Chest. Allies Warn French Of Massive Aerial Attacks On Country By The Associated Press The OWI overseas branch and BBC joined last (Wednes day) night in a special warn ing to the eFrench that the Al lies were going to unleas new and massive aerial assaults on Nazi war plants in France. Thirty-six places, including the Paris area, were listed as liable to be attacked and the fact many are deep inland suggested that whip-sawing tactics involving North Afri can squadrons as well as those based in Britain would be used. Among the areas listed aside from Paris were Gennevilliers, Colombes, Argenteuil, Ivry, Courbevoie, Nantes, Lemans, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Clermont, Metz and De nain. LONDON QUERIES LEROS DISASTER Observers Puzzled To Un derstand Why Is land Is Lost * LONDON Nov. 17—UP)—German seizure of strategic Leros island in the Aegean sea and the threat to the now-exposed neighboring base of Samos subjected British Eastern Mediterranean tactics to sharp questioning in London to night. The capitulation of the island, said the German news agency, DNB. “put the cornerstone back into the Nazis’ southeastern Eu ropean defense system.” London observers were puzzled to understand why the British command, with virtual dominance of the Mediterranean and with thousands of idle troops at its dis posal. was unable to secure thei’ hold on the string of islands which help bar the way from British Middle East invasion bases to the Balkans. The islands were taken at small cost when Italy surren dered. T8he only conclusions reached here were either that the British command has other plans for deal ing with the Balkans or else is land-grabbing operations are more ! difficult than they appear from a 1 distance. British commentators said the ! Allied command apparently found it impossible or undesirable to re inforce the British-Italian garrison on Leros, but neverthless it was believed the Germans suffered heavy losses of picked batle-test ed shock troops as well as weak ened their Balkan. Russian and Italian front forces to recapture the Dodecanese. The British attributed the Ger man success—as on Crete—entire ly to air superiority in an area too remote from Middle East bases for fighters to give protection against Stuka dive-bombers from Nazi bases on Rhodes. Crete and Cos. Allied naval forres ‘?d ■»wv» W-tii im uuu * mu i/win bardments without air cover since the nearest British am baser are 400 miles away in North Africa. The press criticism of the cam paign was coupled with somp talk of replacing Gen. Sir Henry Mait land Wilson, British Middle East commander, but this found no sup port in official quarters. Military circles showed no great alarm at the turn of events. A DNB commentator. Martin Kallensleben. said "Samos now is isolated.” and presumably this Greek island near Leros is next on the list of the German cleanup forces. WEATHER FORECAST • NORTH CAROLINA: Fair 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, 41, 1:30 p m. 50, 7:30 p. m, 46. Maximum 61, Minimum 40, Mean 50, Normal 55. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 59, 7:30 a. m., 54, 1:30 p m 21, 7:30 p m, 44 Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 062 inches Tides For Today High Low Wilmington - 2:00a 9:10p 2:24p 9:52p I/tasonboro Inlet_11:58a 5:44a 6:27p Moore’s Inlet _—_-—— 12:03a 5:49p 6:32p New Topsail Inlet -12:08a 5:54a (Elmore’s) _ 6:3*p (All Times Eastern Standard) Sunrise, 6:48 a m.. Sunset, 5:07 p. m., Moonrise, 10:58 p., Moonset, 12:12 p. Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville on ■Wednesday, at 8 a. m., 9*70 *eet» ATHENS IS ALSO HIT Enemy Airdromes Smashed By North West Afri can Forces GROUND ACTION LOW Allies Are Inching Along In Extremely Poor Weather Area ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Nov. 17. — (fP)—Attacking on a front of more than 1,000 miles, bomb ers of the Northwest Afri can Air Force struck their heaviest blow of recent wreeks at the Nazi Air Force yesterday when they smash ed enemy airdromes near Marseille in Southern France and in the Athens area in Greece. Blistering onslaughts by Flying Fortresses and Ma rauders against fields at Is tres le Tube and Salon near Marseilles were aimed pri marily at the destruction of licets ui uvLiuvr-&n ana uni er German long-range bomb ers that have been harassing Allied shipping in the Medi terranean. Many grounded bombers were left flaming at the two enemy bases and a tremendous explosion indicat ed an Ainerican bomb found an ammuntion dump. Large Fires At Elevsis Another force of Mitchell me dium bombers whipped eastward from their Italian bases to blast the Elevsis airfield near Athens tor the second straight day in fu tile support of Allid ground troops defending Leros island in the Aege an sea. Ten fires were started at Elevsis in hopes of reducing the Nazis' striking force in the Aegean, but the fight for Leros aheady was in its last hours and 'Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) ALL PORK RATION POINT COSTS CUT Hogs Moving To Market In Heavy Numbers; Temporary Slash WASHINGTON. Nov 17— UP) — With hogs moving to markets in heavy numbers, the government tonight slashed ration point costs of all pork products b> two points. At the same time to keep farm ers’ returns on hogr from being driven too low, it extended price supports a all hog markets here tofore, such support has been in effect only at Chicago. The reduction in ration point costs of po'-k, described by Price Administrator Chester Bowles as temporary is effective at 12:01 a. m. Eastern War Time, Friday, November 19. Bowles noted that the cut will make some pork items point free. The higher-valued cuts will be reduced at least 20 per cent, or from 10 points to 3 points per pound. Over the list as a whole i (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) li--— 2 Jap Merchantmen Pounded By Allied Bombers At Rabaul SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL L I E D HEADQUARTERS, Thursday, Nov. 18. — — Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney’s Fifth Air Force, centering its at tacks on Japan’s hard-pressed merchant marine, have scored damaging blows on two more merchantmen, General Mac Arthur’s headquarteres reported today. Catalina flying boats, whose recent night-flying activities have resulted in heavy damage to an enemy cruiser and the enforced beaching of a 9,000 ton cargo ship, both in the general area of Rabaul, went after an enemy convoy near there and left a 6,000 ton merchant ship in sinking condition. The convoy, consisting of two destroyers, two merchantmen md two corvettes was attacked during Monday night and early Tuesday 23 miles north of Ra baul, moving northwest. A 1,000 pound bomb and a 250 pounder landed forward of the bridge. When last seen, the ship was lying low astern. MARSHALL ISLES AGAIN ASSAULTED Makin Also Comes Under Bombardment By U. S. Army Fliers PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Nov. 17. _(£>)— Continuing their aeria offensive in the Central Pacific Army Liberator bomber raided th( Jaluit and Mille atolls in the Mar shall isands and Makin in the Gil bert group the afternoon of No vember 15, Admiral Chester W, Nimitz announced today. The communique gave the fol lowing results of the attack, the second on those islands on succes sive dates: One enemy ship set on fire and three others possibly hit an Ha mit harbor. Many fires started in hangars, shops and fuel dumps at Imieji (Emidj) and Jabor islands of the Jaluit atoll. Several fires started at Mile atoll. Clouds prevented accurate ob servation at Makin. It was the third successive day on which Liberators of Mai. Gen Willis H. Hale's Seventh Air Force had struck against Japanese bases in the Central Pacific area in an offensive which the general said would be continued until taey be come “completely untenable There was no enemy interception at any point in the November IE raid and no damage to American planes or personnel. Intense anti aircraft fire was encountered a1 Mille, but it was weak at Makin and Jaluit. The text of the communique fol lows: “Late afternoon raids were made on enemy positions on Jaluit and Mille Atolls in the Marshall is lands and on Makin island in the Gilberts on November 15, West Longtitude date, by Liberators oi the Army’s Seventh Air Force. “At Jaluit many fires were started by our bombs in hangars, shops and dump areas and at sea plane bases on Imiegi and Jabor islands. Of five ships anchored in the lagoon, one was left burn ing and three others were possi bly damaged. IS FIRST SETBACK Soviet Troops Kill 2,000 Enemy Soldiers In Dnieper Bend FOE USING TANKMEN Large Forces Concentrated Against Reds To Force Retreat LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 18.—(A*) — A mounting Ger man counter-attack with a field force reported to total 15,000 men sent the Red ar my into reverse yesterday in the Zhitomir - Korostyshev region of the northern Uk raine — a small sector of the vast Eastern front — in the first admitted Soviet set back since the Russian of fensive began four months ago. However, in the Dnieper* bend Soviet troops killed 2, 000 Germans and seized sev eral towns and in the Koros ten rail junction area 60 more towns and hamlets were cap tured. Advances were also made in the Gomel-Rechitsa area and a new Soviet drive was reported under way near Orsha. The unusual announcement of the Soviet retreat came in the Moscow communique, re corded from a broadcast by the Soviet Monitor, and in the later midnight supple ment. 1,500 Germans Killed The Germans concentrated large forces of tanks and infantry on a narrow sector of the front, the communique said, and after kill ing 1,500 Germans and destroying 80 tanks and troop carriers, the Russians “under pressure of the numerically superior enemy forces abandoned a few populated places and entrenched themselves in new positions.” The German counter-attack was seen in London as purely a defen sive move and the Berlin radio itself, while talking of “growing German counter-pressure,” said the Russians were forced to carry out “a certain backward move ment which at the moment is not very considerable.” The Nazi push was directed at the underside of tire Red army’s westernmost salient at Zhitomir, an important rail junction announc ed captured Saturday, and Koros tyshev, 15 mile seaslward on the znitomir-Kiev highway. One Berlin report said the high, way had been reached by a Ger. man spearhead and a Reuters Mos cow dispatch said Field Marshal Gen. Fritz von Mannstein had thrown 150.000 men and hundreds of tanks into the counterblow. The thrust also appeared aimed direct ly at Zhitomir itself. The German attack appeared to have a two-fold purpose. One was to keep the Russians from clos ing the German escape route from the Dnieper bend area in the south. The other was possibly a Nazi attempt to cover preparation of defenses behind the Bug river for the next stand. The Bug is about 50 miles southwest of Zhito mir at Khmelnik where the river, coming from Proskurov, turns to the south. In one area of the raging bat (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) - . Kirke Simpson Says: British Reverse On Leros May Bring Repercussions From London Circles By The Associated Press Collapse of British effort to pry open the Aegean route to the Balkans is indicated in the Nazis recapture of Leros island in the Italian Dodecanese group. Its fall leaves British forces on the Greek island of Samos, 50 miles farther north up the Turkish coast, cut off and in peril of the fate that has overtaken the garrisons on Le ros and Cos and Castelrosso is lands, previously retaken by Ger man forces. This first real setback in a year of unbroken Allied victories which began at el Alamein in Egypt probably will have repercussions in London. It could conceivably lead to a shake-up of the British % command at Cairo covering the Eastern Mediterranean - Aegean Balkan theater of operations. Thousands of British troops and cooperating Italian and Greek forces apparently have been lost. A Parliamentary inquiry may de termine why they were exposed without prompt and adequate fol low-up operations to consolidate their initial gains. Even though the military conse quences may be minor, the blow to Allied prestige in Turkey and the Balkans is too obvious to be ignored. Explanations are in or der and certainly will be demand ed in London. The first British landings on lesser islands of the Aegean, by passing the Nazis strongholds on Crete and Rhodes, came last Sep tember. They were widely con strued at the time as a start of an Allied effort to retake both larger islands, or to open up a communication sea lane along the Turkish coast for some even bold er thrust at the Balkan flank of the Nazi European fortress. Spokesmen for the Cairo com mand insisted that major strate gic objectives were concerned in the Aegean operations, not mere diversionary attempts. Press re ports from Cairo at that time also pictured British armies in Egypt and Libya, as well as those (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4),
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