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Milmingtnn morning Star 1 sS jroT^—NO. 265 WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Bill Deferring Pre-War Dads Goes To F. R.; Final Congressional Ap proval Given Draft Measure effect questioned National Pool Provided, Placing Fathers At The Bottom -VT_ rtO WASH1JNuiw, //P)—Legislation to put :£r fathers at the bot £ of the draft list won fi 2congressional approval to ff -n the face of an asser £bv Chairman Paul V.Mc v° tt of the War Manpower Commission that it is/'sabo Z of sound administra tion” of the manpower pro gr?The bill, sent to the White House by the Senate, places fathers of children born be ; Sept. 15. 1942, in a na tional"pool, and declares that none of them shall be mduct Ied it a non-father is available tor call by any local draft board anywhere in the coun try. 1 Two 0r Thiee Months ' CTi a IJr,,r of the Senate-House con wce committee that drew up & legislation in final form, esti meted that the net effect would be to postpone the drafting of some fathers for“two or three months. Some Senators questioned that it would have any practical effect „„ the drafting of fathers, how e'-er because of an “escape cause” mitten into the measure at the request of selective service officials. This clause provides mat draft ing of fathers shall be delayed cnlv so long as it does not inter lore with “the usual regular and orderly flow of the nation s man power into the armed forces.” Strips McNutt The bill, which strips Commis sioner McNutt of supervisor au tarky he has exercized over se lective service, and also creates a medical commission to review t.rmy and Navy physical stand ees, faces an uncertain reception at the White House in view of authoritative reports that McNutt vouid ask President Roosevelt to In a letter which Senator John son read to the Senate, McNutt declared the legislation destroyed the integration of military and ci vilian manpower allocation provid ed for by the President when he placed Selective Service under Mc Nutt's jurisdiction by executive or der late in 1942 “It is a sabotage of sound ad ministration.” McNutt wrote. “Let ns hope that if it is passed, the President's critics will not then at tack him on the ground that ‘ad ministrative responsibility is di McNutt also said that the pro vision placing ail draft authority tmder We director of Selective Service would “tear apart the re lationship which has been estab lished and would seriously weaken the manpower program.” addition to abolishing Mc Nutt's Selective Service authority the bill nullifies the War Man power Commission’s so - called “work or fight” order that placed certain types of workers in a “non oderable” group subject to im mediate induction regardless of dependents. Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.), au t, or of the original anti-fathers 'aft bill out of which the com r-'ormse legislation grew said he bill as passed, although , entirely suitable, could pro a “fairer administration of hrd”1Ve Smice fNan we have I WEATHER N forecast 1i«zii,'!'>LCA^gl;INa : Temperature near trai Tufcirt i ™ounlains and in north cen (d ra'"« cow TuSI’ay.ir and C°ntinU' (BvEr"r? SUndard Time) Meteomhlii,. , "rather Bureau) ending ; orf ca dal;l tor the 24 hours ‘ "i0 P- m., yesterday, i 1.30 a „ Ternperataure l5’ b3o'Dmm °?'„7:30 a m’> 52, 1:30 p. m., 60, Minimum I Humidity r l:30'™"mf «:3° a- m- 71- 1:30 P m, I, Total for Pr'eiPitation inehe. h°UrS ending 7:30 |'-® Mche's"Ce ,he £irst o£ the month, LiiW .. Tides For Today 1 s- Coast Tables published by - and Geodetic Survey) mlniing*l0n High Low ». 6:19a 1:09a S50«borci ini„, 6:36p l:31p . 161 -..4:14a 10:28a ..aimrise K.-,., „ 4:21p 10:45p •'oonrise 2bj|3 a- m., Sunset, 5:03 p. m, 0 a. -doonset, 2:36 p Cape j. —— *** R‘Ver staS« at Fayetteville Operators Report Air Raid Alarm Sounded In Berlin LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 23.— —An air raid alarm was sounded in Berlin last night, Swedish telephone operators said, indicating the RAF had returned to the attack on the German capital. A dispatch from Stockholm said telephone operators there reported no calls to Berlin could be completed because of an air alarm. The Berlin radio along with other continental stations went off the air about four hours before midnight, another usual sign of an RAF attack. The German capital was rocked Thursday night wnen nearly 1,000 RAF heavy bom bers struck Berlin and Lud wigshaven, dropping 2,500 long tons of bombs on the two cities in devastating raids. The four-engined bombers sent more than 3350 two-ton blockbusters crashing down on the Nazi capital in Thursday night’s raid. tr DEATHS SADDEN U. S. CONGRESS Show - Down Fight On Subsidies Is Delayed WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.— 1® — The House, saddened by the death of two of Us leading members, Henry B. Steagall of Alabama and J. William Hitter of Pennsylvania, halted work today for 24 hours and thereby postponed until to morrow a vote to ban consumer price subsidies. Steagall, Democratic chairman of the House Banking committee and usually a stalwari supporter of the Administration, had led in the fight against its subsidy pro gram. Seventy years old, he died in George Washington hospital this morning after a heart attack which associates said was brought on by an energetic speech against the program last Thursday. Ditter, 55, chairman of the Re publican congressional committee, and recognized as on» of the most eloquent speakers in Congress, crashed to nis death last night in a Navy airplane near Columbia, Pa. A member of the Appropri ations subcommittee handling Navy funds, Ditter was enroute from the Squanturn, Mass., naval air base to the Navy base at Willow Grove, Pa., at the lime. The two deatns raised to six the mortalities among House mem bers of the 78th Congress and brought from Dr. George W. Cal ver. Congressional physician, a warning to other members to “slow down and give more atten tion to their physical condition.” They left the political line-up in the House at 219 Democrats, 207 Republicans, four minor party; members and five vacancies. Capitol Hill flags were lowered (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) ---1 Beating Is Given Measure To Allow Servicemen To Vote WASHINGTON, Nov 22—UP)— A proposed system for service men to vote in next year's election took a beating from two sides today and emboldened opponents set out to kill the whole idea of federal sup ervision of voting. First, the Senate struck from the plan a provision by which a War Ballot Commission could have chal lenged the validity of tne presiden tial voting in any state. Then, aftar Chief Justice Har lan F. Stone refused to participate in an arrangement whereby a Su preme Court justice would act as an umpire to settle deadlocks on the bi-partisan ballot commission, the Senate knocked out that provi sion. Senator Lucus (D-ILL). one of the authors of the bill to have the commission handle the service men’s vote, complained that the changes left it with “nothing but administrative duties.” Eighth Army Captures Two Italian Cities British Strongly Reinforc ed By Canadian Troops NAZIS FALLING BACK Berlin Claims Large Scale Drive Has Been Opened ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Nov. 22.—(IP) —Secretly reinforced by a heavy contingent of Canadi an troops, General Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery’s Eighth Army has plunged ahead to capture two more towns near the center of the Italian front and was fighting tonight within two miles of the ene my’s main defense line along the upper Sangro river. (A Berlin broadcast Mon day night said the Eighth Army had begun a large scale offensive, “preceded by a strong artillery fire and supported by strong air for mations,” but it described British gains as negligible. Heavy losses were declared to- have been inflicted upon the attacking troops. 40 Miles Inland The site of the Eighth Army’s latest thrust, made under miser able weather conditions, is approx imately 40 miles inland from the Adriatic seacoast. San Pietro Avel lana, 10 miles due west of Agnone, and Vastogirardi. between those 'wo towns, fell before Montgom ery's determined drive that was a;med at an important junction of interior highways leading to Rome. Capture of Agnone. along with Archi, Castel San Vincenzo and Rocchetta in the Eighth Army's renewed advance wras announced anly yesterday. Seizure of the six rtoutly-defended Nazi strongpoints scithin two days tore the enemy’s grip from the last points on the lateral Vastoisernia highway and ielivered that valuable communi rations line to Montgomery's ad vancing forces. Cities Burned - The Germans, falling back stub oornly upon their main “winter Line’’ northwest of the Sangro river were reported burning both “astel di Sangro and Alfedena in (Continued on Page Six; Col. 8) SUPREME COURT RU ON LABOR Holds That Courts Can Not Settle Raid Disputes WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 — OP) — The Supreme Court ruled today that under federal law the settle ment of jurisdictional disputes be tween railroad unions is up to the national (railway) mediation board or the union themselves not the courts. . In three cases involving the is sue the court declared in opinions by Justice Douglas that while Con gress had provided specifically foi judicial review in certain types cf railroad disputes, it had not gi ven the solution of jurisdictional controversies to the courts. The vote was seven to two in two cases, with Justices Roberts and Reed dissenting, and four tc three in the third case, with Jus tices Reed, Roberts and Jackson (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) $40,000 Mark Is Passed In War Chest Campaign Wilmington and New Hanover county’s War Chest campaign has passed the $40,000 mark according to the latest tabulation made Mon day afternoon. The second official report datte brought in a total of $15,079.29 which added to the reports of the first day brought the tctal to $40, 241.28, with $105,157.84 to go. The next report date is set lor Tuesday at 5 p. m. when all division lead ers and team captains are urged to make their reports. This meeting will be neld at campaign headquar ters. The industrial division led in the reporting Saturday and Monday, re porting a total ol $5,960,000. The North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany, largest unit in the campaign lias not made an cniciai report, but many of the departments have reached or exceeded depdrtmenl goals, S. P. Ware, chairman of the shipyard division, said Monday night. Solicitation is continuing ir all departments during the re Linder of this week giving every, one of the thousands cl war work, ers in the yard ar. opportunity te contribute to the war fund. Robert Scott, chairman of the ,»£ Auntie “s. was unable to give at. official le port during the day be.cLf* ee campaign is continuing at top speee throughout the »tg» ACL umt ^ til everyone ot tneir e i (Continued on Page bix, Col. Australian Jungle Troops Drive Ahead | Toward Sattleberg SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Tues day, Nov. 23.—(«—Australians have punched their way through dense jungles and stiff resistance to within half a mile of Japanese entrenched pla teau positions at SatteUy-O the Tuon peninsula eastern New Guinea ..A jjP Sattelberg is e IS’*.* ^ northwest of Alii A ©*• chhafen and ov- -gx* ^ sitions of Gen' A* >5 forces. ~ ^ In annor ^ - vance to -5? <V*So reported p IQ* ,^-'fthe east on the ^ e the harbor of Pins during which Aussies kii», 50 Japa nese. The communique also re ported the destruction of 19,000 tons of shipping in the south and southwest Pacific. Liberators sank a 4,000-ton snip off uuicn new uamea and probably sank an 8,000 ton ship off Iavieng, New Ire land. On the west central coast of Bougainville wnere the Japa nese are opposing extension of the American beachhead at Empress Augusta bay, Ameri can divebombers and torpedo bombers have torn into this resistance with 62 tons of ex plosives. The Jap airforce also got in some more blows there, inflict ing minor damage on shipping and some casualties. On the south central coast of New Britain, Liberators for the second straight day have deliv ered a heavy attack on the Gasmata air base area, hit ting supply dumps with 49 tons. More than 130 tons were drop ped in the previous attack. _v__ OIL VENTURE IN CANADA ASSAILED Ickes Says Entire Project Should Be Junked i — WASHINGTON. Nov. 22— (JR Spokesman lor three government agencies criticized the Army sharp ly today for its $130,000,000 Cana dian oil venture and broke into the open a smouldering argument dat ing back a year and a half. Inter ior Secretary Ickes said flatly that the whole project “ought to be junked.” The Senate's Truman committee, self-chosen umpire in the dispute, heard from the Interior Depart ment, the Budget Bureau and the War Production Board that 1— The War Department ignored other interested departments when it negotiated with Canada to fi nance, entirely with U. S. funds, the drilling of 27 wells in Canada, laying a 500—mile pipe line and erection of a refinery, to provide the Army’s Alaskan forces with fuel. 2— Protests of the Interior De partment and the War Production Eoard that the plan was unsound were not heeded. The charges were made by Ikes, ar petroleum administrator, and supported by Leroy Whitney, tech nical consultant tc WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson. Harold D. Smith, director of the budget, served notice at the same tiny: that the War Department would be expected to defend the con tracts w7ith the Canadian govern (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) U. S. MARINES LAND ONABEMAMA ISLAND IN NORTHERN GILBERTS; REDS HALTSA VAGE NAZIATTACK ---—-—---M. - TANKS SMASHED V Battlefield Carpeted With Many German Dead ! REDS HOLD FIRM Push Toward Kiev Is Stop ped By Russian Armies LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 23.—(IP)—Red army troops buttressed by fleets of tanks smashed powerful new Nazi attacks near Korostyshev, halting a savage counterof fensive toward Kiev, wreck ing 80 enemy tanks and car peting the battlefield with German dead, Moscow an nounced early today. Even as the Germans lung ed desperately on this narrow sector 20 miles east of Zhit omir, other Soviet armies on the distant flanks slashed deeper into the Dnieper bend to the southeast, and in the Rechista area to the north, killing 2,500 Nazis, said the broadcast communique re corded by the Soviet moni tor. Relieve Pressure These drives apparently were in tended to relieve pressure on the Kiev sector as well as to advance the general offensive toward the borders of Rumania and pre-war Poland. Another 600 Germans fell in bat tle 10 miles north of Zhitomir, the war bulletin declared, as Field Marshal Gen. Fritz Von Mannstein struck out in a new direction in the Chernyakov area, possibly aiming at Korosten. Two attacks were repulsed near Chernyakhov. Holding firmly in the ninth day of battle in the Korstyshev sec tor, the Soviets w'ere declared to have met and broken the tremen dous new Nazi onslaughts yester day, leaving the approaches to the Russian position “covered with dead German officers and men. ’ The twin-pronged Red army clean-up of the Dnieper bend ham mered closer to Krivoi Rog and Nikopol, thg war bulletin said. Gen. Nikolai Vatutin’s heavy ar mor swept victoriously over at least six strongly-fortified German defense centers in a broadening Dnieper bridgehead south of Kre menchug. and fought off counter blows launched against the Rus sian bridgehead at Cherkasi, mid way between Kremenchug and the Kiev sector. Flanking Von Mannstein’s attack from the north. Gen. Constantin Rokossovskv drove westward along a 100-mile front-capturing 12 vil lages and one railway station along the lower Pripet river, taking 16 more towns west of Rechitsa, and storming eight centers of resist (Continued on Page Six; Col. 3) British Use Secret Caves To Store Invasion Guns LONDON, Nov. 22.—(IB—From an underground city carved out of solid lock and rivaling sections of the famous Maginct and Sieg | fried lines will flow much of the ammunition to be used in the Al lied invasion of Europe. The existence of this huge bomb proof arsenal, along with the fact that the British started building it seven years ago, was made public today for die first time, as the press was taken through it on a guided tour. It has been one of this country’s best kept war secrets, and news men looked on in amazement as a war office official explained how some old, abandoned quarries were converted into a giant subterrane an warehouse for explosives. Details of the vast stores are, of course, secret. Al' that can be said is that there are stacks and stacks more of ammunition ready for the big day. Away back in 1936, someone at the war office with a hunch about the future had what then was call ed a brainstorm for utilizing the unused quarries as storage areas. Starting with a small crew of ex perts, the number of workers was drawn from all over England and grew into tnousands Hundreds of I thousands of tons of rock had to j be moved and new tunnels cut linking old caves. Ail the work men were sworn to secrecy. All that was known about their mole-like joos was that they were working at “the dump ” Hundreds of rumors spread about the place, but the public never knew exactly what was going on. The most per sistent rumoi was that it was an emergency foot! store. It was— food for guns. One enters the underground city through what looks like an ordi nary railway tunnel. The interior is a maze cf tunnels, rail lines, conveyor belts, elevators, storage rooms, offices, anc barracks for workmen and guards. “I was here thiee months be fore I could say I knew the place properly,” said the commanding officer. A stranger gets hopelessly lost in five minutes. Over the entrance ol one of the great storage sections is painted the words, "Germany’s Bogey. Among other features of the place is a telephone exchange op erated by ATS (Auxiliary Terri torial Service) girls, modern work shops, an air conditioning system and an emergency generating plant powerful enough to provide power and light for a whole town ship. Yet on emerging from the depths of the earth into daylight, one sees only peaceful pastuie land and grazing cows. Gun Duel On Bougainville Shortly after landing on Bougainville in the Solomons, the Ma rines set up weapons of all types on the edges of the jungles. This group is using a 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun to pour shells into a Jap po sition on a nearbv island. X. S. Marine Corps photo. (International) Berlin Claims Recapture Of Agean Isle Of Samos LONDON, Nov. 22.—(/P)—Reconquest of Samos—last Aegean island of consequence held by the Allies off Tur key — was claimed tonight by the Germans, but this suc cess made only a rent in the storm cloud of Allied power gathering and rising over the Balkans. Samos, a Greek island, has not been mentioned by the Allied command, but it had in effect been lost ever since _the Nazis re-won Leros and Cos to TRAIN SERVICE GIVEN APPROVAL State Utilities Commission Okehs A. C. L.’s Request I RALEIGH. Nov. 22— (/P) —The! State Utilities Commission has granted the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company's request to al low “mixed train” service on its line between Wilmington and Fay etteville, Chief Clerk D. O. Self said today. The ruling allows ACL to take the present passenger train be tween the two cities off that run, and use that equipment for an ad ditional passenger train between Wilmington and Rocky Mount—two cars of this train to be operated through from Wilmington to Wash ington, D. C., for the purpose of re lieving the congestion of travel of military personnel between Wil mington and Rocky Mount. In lieu of the regular Wilmington Fayetteville passenger train, the commission ruling authorized tile operation of “mixed train”—com bined freight and passenger—serv ice between the two cities. How ever, the ruling prohibits local switching, with only “through ’ freight or that running at least from Wilmington to Fayetteville, and vice versa—being hauled on the rur,. Self said that the “mixed train” would have “as many passenger cars as necessary.” The railroad presented argu ments in favor of the mixed train service on November 15. Previous ly. the commission had denied the ACL's request that it be allowed to discontinue passenger service be tween Wilmington and Fayetteville i.-i order to increase its service be-i tween Wilmington,, Rocky Mount, and points north. the south in the Dodecanese, and its fall had been anticipated here. Small Outposts Samos, Leros, and Cos formed small outposts of an Allied offen sive arc drawn up against the flank of Crel®. Allied reports some weeks ago told of Allied occupa tion of the island of Castelrosso far to the south and it presuma bly still is in Allied hands, though of little mil'tary significance. While the German radio was announcing the capitulation of Sa mos, vastly superior German forc es were bemg bitterly engaged over Yugoslavia, and the Nazi po sition in both Bulgaria and Ru mania was weakening. The partisan army of Gen. Jo sip Broz (Tito) ii Yugoslavia— drawing in more and more Ger man troops from the north as it struck at the weakest point of Hit (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) 19 Men Were Lost In Tanker Collision Off Atlantic Coast LEWES. Del., Nov. 22. — 1/P) — Nineteen men were lost and pre sumably died in a blazing sea after the tanker Bostonian crashed into the tanker Altair in a thick fog 58 miles off the Atlantic coast at midnight Saturday, a fourth naval district spokesman disclosed to night. Thirty three survivors were res cued, two of them badly injured, the spokesman said. Unofficial re ports which the Navy did not dis approve said still other survivors were landed in another Delaware port. Captain Rein Schenore, Latvia born master of the Altair, 7,000 ten Socony Vacuum Oil Company vessel, said most of the missing were members of his crew who jumped overboard “when the water was already ablaze.” “That was a very foolish thing to do,” said Schenore, who com manded the only lifeboat launched from the blazing ship. The Altair was heading toward Philadelphia wth a cargo of crude oil The Bostonian, a 7,000-ton Pan American vessel was running emp ty. Challenge Of U. S. Naval Power Confronting Japs BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press War Analyst At long last the supreme chal lenge of American sea power is confronting Japan in the north central Pacific west of the inter national date line. Backed up by a sea-air armada now adequate for its task, Ameri can land fighters are ashore in the Gilbert islands which fiy-speck the charts just north of the Equa tor, carving out offensive footholds a thousand miles nearer Tokyo. With Makin and Tarawa atolls won and consolidated, neutraliza tion or recapture of the whole Mar shall and Gilbert groups most like ly will follow and the Truk island pivot of Nipponese central Pacific outposts will come under deadly fire from east and south. Official American reports are too meager as yet to afford a certain strategic pattern of the op eiation. Press accounts from Pearl Harbor and the recent dec laration of Admiral Chester Ni rcitz, Pacific fleet commander, that the hour for a general ad vance westward in the Pacific has come, leave no doubt,4 however, that landings on Makin and Ta rawa are but the first skirmishes of a planned major action. Niraitz s come-out-andfight chal lenge to the main Japanese fleet has been transformed from words into action. The full weight of the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) BRIEF COMMUNIQUE Position On Both Tarawa And Makin Is Improved FIGHTING IS BITTER Mo Opposition Is Report ed In Land ing PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Nov. 22.—(A3)—U. S. Ma rines have landed on Abema ma atoll, 80 miles southeast of Tarawa in the northern Gilberts, and have improved their position on both Tara wa and Makin atolls. This was disclosed today in a communique from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz as the public anxiously awaited news of progress of assault ing forces engaged in bitter fighting against Japanese artillery, machine guns and pill bo''Ps on Tarawa. Brief Communique A communique from the com mander-in-chief of the Pacific wag encouraging but brief on this phase. It stated only that “cur troops have improved their posi tion on Tarawa and Makin atolls, but are still encountering consid erable ground resistance." The Abemama (Apamama) as sault was confined to one sen tence: “We have landed Apamama atoll.” This atoll was believed to be j lightly defended and the fact no mention was made of opposition was seen as encouraging. Simul taneously Admiral Nimitz disclos ed that Vice Adm. Raymond A. Spruance of Indianapolis is direct ing centra] Pacific operations and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) T T JERSEY SENATOR TAKEN BY DEATH Sen. W. W. Barbour Dies At His Home Follow ing Ailment WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—(TPi—• Senator W. Warren Barbour, 55, of New .Jersey, died at his home tonight of a coronary thrombosis.* Dr. George W. Calver, Capitol physician, announced that Bar bour had been in ill health for sev eral days. He died at 10:45 p. m. (EWT). Barbour was born in Monmouth Beach, N. J. He was appointed to the United States Senate Dec. 1, 1931. to succeed the late Dwight W. Morrow. He was defeated for reelection in 1936, but was re turned to the Senate two years later for the unexpired term va cated by resignation of Senator A. Harry Moore who became gover nor. He was reelected in 1940 for a term ending in 1947. He is survived by a son, War ren, and two daughters, Elysabeah and Sharon. I---1 Cost Of Living Up 3.9 Per Cent Since 1942, Report Shows ---- NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—/*)_'The cost of living in the United States as a whole has risen 3.9 per cent since October, 1942, and 20.6 per cent since January. 1941, the Na tional Industria1 Conference board reported 'today. In a survey of 70 industrial cit ies, the board reported that liv ing costs for wage earners and lower - salaried clerical workers had risen from September to Oc tober—tiie latest period fcr which the board nas figures The survey showed the largest increase in September occurred in Bridgeport, Conn , Oakiand, Calif., and San Francisco where there was a rise of 1.8 per cent during the month. In four cities there was no change and in 12 living costs were lower. The largest decline, .5 per cent, occurred in New Orleans, Atlanta and Anderson, Ind. Changes in other cities included: Richmond—1.1 per cent increase. Memphis—.2 per cent decrease. Huntington, W. Va.—.1 per cent decrease. ,
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