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Itettitersttit Satlit Utsiiatrh LEASE!) W1KB SEKVII'U iiv __ ■ PUBLISHED EVERY AKTEKNUUN fiMX/L1 r,tT*MrPO PADV EXCEPT SUNDAY. r 1 V ill LiliN 1 S COPY U. S. Troops Capture Palermo stvtN BARRELS, ALL SILENCED ALL SCV2TJ S.'.r.riclS of this fi l..;: enemy cnnnon were pounding away when cur &-o!:i:crs swept r.n African Lr.UlcfitM. Pictured here in a ship's kc!d, the cun is otl lts w^y to t'-ie Aberdeen. Md.. proving jji'v.unu lur study by U. S. experts. (iiiU'rudisualJ Coal Mine Owners Cool Toward Pact i I Appalachian. Mine Operators Demand YVLB ReJection Of Pay Concession Washington. July 23.—(AIM — Indicating lack of enthusiasm for a "model" agreement between the United Mine Workers of America and the Illinois Coal Operators Association, spokes men for the operators in the na tion's largest producing area de manded today that the war labor hoard enforce its ruling that miners sign a contract for pay without underground travel time. Pending WLB action oil the Il linois contract, which contains pro vision for portal-to-portal pay and which the UMW policy committee hr.s approved as a model tor the en tire coal industry, northern and southern Appalachian opiiators sakl they knew of none of their <• illeag ne.i who have made overtures to the union for similar agreement-. Union spokesmen said yesterday operators in other areas a!. ' ..My had put in motion machinery to effect agreements like that approved by the Illinois group and providing for S1.25 daily portal-to-portal pay, an ev'.ht-liour day and a 48-hour week with time i»nd one half pay for ai! time worked in excess of 35 hours. Th:' Illinois contract is subject t-i approval of the WLIJ. wliieii last month rejected portal-to-:>ortal pay as a "hidden" wane increase and di rected the UMW and operators to en ter into an agreement without that provision. EXAGGERATION I.arrctis, S. C . Jul, 28.—(AP)_ Wyatt Garrett ot Laurens wants it k own th I a report of his death was highly exaggerated. A baker, second class, in the Navy. Garrett said he read newspaper reports that lie was killed in the attack on Pearl Har bor. When he returned home re cently he took himself lid the news paper clippings to 'he Greenville navy recruiting office to prove the paradox. Chaplin Sues For Million Nfcw York, July 23-(AD-Char les Chaplin hsis filed a Sl.OOO.OOtt fuit in supreme court namin:: film producer David O. Sel/.nick and four motion picture corporations as de fendants. The comedian, in behalf <>f him self ;ind other United Artists Cor poration stockholders, charged that the firm advanced Sel/.nick S300.000 to buy titles, make contracts will) tars and technicians to produce "Keys of the Kingdom." "Claudia" and "Jane Eyre." Chaplin claimed that five ni" ths ago Selznlck sold the rights to the script and the contracts with the stars to 20th Century-Fox Film Cor poration. He asked the court for an accounting of profits. Named defendants in tho suit filed yesterday, were United Artists. 20jh Century-Fox, Dnvid O. Selznick Pro ductions. Inc., Vanguard Films, Inc., and Selznick. ABSENTEE VOTING ON LEAF QUOTAS Itiilcigh. July —(AI')—l)c;in I. C). Schiiiib ol the N. C. Slate College Extension Service, said today thai tobacco growers, tenants. or share croppers who will be away from homv • n Saturday may use the ab sentee ballot system of voting in the tobacco quota referendum of far mers. Schaub said thai regulati >ius gov erning the holding of rifesenda on marketing quotas provide that "any person who will not be present on the d. y of the referendum in the county in which he is eligible to vote may obtain one ballot form from the office of the County A A. A Commit'.ce." Saturday'.- rcl'orenct . >. will be hold under supervise n ol 'he AAA comn.ittccs ;.ncl local farmers will , man the polls in each county. The ballot will be secret. A two-thirds majority of the v >tes cast is nvedni to estalili- a (|uota.s for a three-year period, Sc!i..u-> .-.aid. Leaf Worker Fay Boosted! WLB Regional Office Raises Wage Scales Of Seasonal Workers Over 1942 Levels Atlanta. ,?ul.v 315—(.AIM—In a far - reaching decision affecting Mie southeast's flue cured toliac co industry, the fourth regional war lalio'; board today announc ed autho/i/atiou of wage in creases for more than 1:5.000 sea sonal employees at bright leaf markets of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia. M. Ti Van Heckc. regional chair • man. said the board approved five cent increases in the top rate for three types «»t common labor and authorized increases not to exceed in cents on hour fer clericnl work ers. coopers, truck drivers and other mure skilled employees not covered by the rate rangvs. The seasonal nature of the employment was con side" d i y the l»>ard in setting the new rates. The cases were filed on behalf of the industry b> thv Leaf Tobacco Exporters Association and the To ] bacco Assoc'at <>n of the United I Slate.-. Greenville. X. ('.; Liggett i ; nd Myers Tobacco Co.. Durham. N. | ('.: and the Amcric, n Suppliers, Inc.. j Durham. The group-', ireludi" « more than I 175 large and small tobacco proces | sors. operate in approximately 70 murk els in the four-state flue cured I area. Van llockc said the bnost in rang0 | maximums, covering virtually all of the '1.1.000 seasonal employes, pro ' vided: Ordinary labor, new range of 40 ! to 50 ctnts an hour, an increase at (Continual on P.ige Four) - „ m. w* ■*■***★★★★★ Surprise Attack Made On Soerabaja Yanks Make Long r light For Attack Main Japanese Base in Dutch East Indies Is Heavily Pounded; AH Bombers Return Allied Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific. July 2:>—; (AP) — American a i r m e 111 sprang a surprise on ihe J a pa- j ncse yesterday with a destruc- ' live raid 011 the enemy's main Netherlands East Indies base at Soerabaja. It was the first raid on the ' ( nee jrreat Dutch naval base 011 | Java sine.- the Japanese captur- j ed it isi March. 1!M2. and ihe ' longest mission ever flown in the si.uiitwest Pacific. I.iritis were burning brightly in llii' city and tin- dock area was a scene of hustli.'g activity as the first Liberator bomber raced in and began planting 500-pound bombs and ineemliarirs in the target area. Japanese ground battrries quickly came to life, however, and raised a heavy but ineffective barrage. All our bombers returned. Genera! D mylas MacAithur's coin niuni(|i:r today said the incendiaries and high e\p!o£si\es hit an oil re finery, ware!.ousts, railway instil lations and a dock. Towering fires, seme of them visible 140 miles away, were started. The spectacular attack on Soera baja captured immediate attention j from tin Sn!'>mons area hut there' was no ea-ing <>1 the daily battering giver. Mimda <11 New Georgia. Bomb ers cor timed to rain bombs upon' the beleaguvrcd Japanese base j there, dropping 135 tons of explo sive-. Wildcat fighters covered Ihe j bembers in -5" sorties "made in di rect support of our ground troops." (Japanese forces al Mtinda are con tained within the defense ringing j the field, a spokesman at the s ■nth Pacific headquarters of Admiral Wil liam F. llalsey. Jr.. said. He added that capture .if tlie air base "now is j in reach") Many Stocks Sell Higher New York. .Jul.v 23—(AP)—Scat- ! tvrcd utili'.y |>: i U i eds. rails and ;o-| dustrial rpec.allies |<erf'irmed mi the j upsidv in today's .1 >rk market. The direction w; irregularly up | ward at the start. At best levels !«••• 1943 or longer were Pepsi-Cola and "A" prefer!eds oi Eleetrie Powei and Light and American I'mvvr and Light and Wa ba>h. Woolu'^rth jump|»e«l on one 10,4011-.-hare block. In arrears were General Motors, Chrysler, New York Central. Pennsylvania. Standard Oil of N. S» rs If >c!>uck. Eastman, Kodak and Weitingiiouse. Carrier bends improved. Commod ities h'old ti> a steady coursc. Critical Shortage Of Eggs \ Predicted For Mid-Winter Washington. July 23—(AP)—There will be a critical iUK shortage in I tlvs country by next Detvmber. a spokesman f<n the office of price, administration said today. "U will be tin- \vi\-t egg shortiige in this nation's history." lie said. "It will be accompanied by a had hlacU market. No plan for mid v liter egg rationing is being con sidered. 1 don't siv how we could do it. the problem >s so huge." I'hi- is the explanation lit- gave: ISight now this o untiy is pa- ing; the peak of its egg production, liens do their best laying in spring and early summer, producing in that lime ('•" per iVr.t of the annual egg supply. From Hint early summer peak pro ; duction falls off to a low point in mid-winter. Normally cold storage eggs help i tide Americans over the slack win ter months. This year there will be no cold storage eggs for civilians, j They will go to the armed forces. Thirty per cent of th« total prrduC* *n wi'l V# t irn:rt int-> drip;! • it entire 3<> per rent -Sit by the government i i lorees i.nd lend-l-M.-e. • u-e dried er.Ks i' their -ulfer for lack of tiiem. • net along on what tivsli buy and oil frozen «::us. : I ro/'. l I'HJJS ill I' runs i their way to market and t I reezinn i«»r future use. \v a black market in crate: 4 country <iiippeis cor nii.rke! in their area me. for egg- will .still he i' n but in far les- quaii e««s but will be : fur the Halters v work w '! will ha\ i cuu~ tin \ Usually damaged salvaged Here eggs e< >s i t'ertair tier the i in winter. available ' lily tl>.i n llaviuu rnercd the market, the country . i;>p<rs will try t i sell t«» whole salt - at above th".• price rid ing imp' : ''!i the shippes. If (he wil l' s;-lers meet th<\«e black market p'they in turn if they are not '.■> l"-o money on the d\d — will h mc to sell above their own eeilinc prire- In retailers. Then t'le retailers, ti make ;i profit, will have sell above their ceiling . :;-<ir customers, the house Sicily Prisoners Pour Into Yank Camps l'art of the huge roundup of Italian prisoners captu.ed in Svrat-usc and surrounding areas in Sicily is >etii on the way to pons lrom which the men will b e sent to internment camps in North Africa. Many of eap.ivcs arc obviously happy to be out of the war and rid of their Lierman partners. (International Kadio pho .o.) Red Pincers Close On Orel Rome Keeps W ar Status President Roosevelt Sayr Efforts Fail To Have City Remove Military Facilities Washington, July —(AIM — 1'iesidciit Kooscvclt s.ii.l today I he allies <•( ill hope (hut the Ger mans ai d fascists will ileelarc Kenie an open city. The Chief Executive told (lis . press-radio conference that the allies hat! tried for .1 year or 1111.re to have the It.ili.n capital rendered an open cit> an.l iienee not subject to attack, nut that all these efforts had tailed. Discus ini'. 11ic recent nil- raid on lt> 11 <• tiii- I'resid'ent remarked Die city (■ >uI.< 11 :> airports and rai'.ro.id mai-lialli yards used t.> transport guns, tnand it ion s" Ill ward. IU also said 1 lie boinii'iS wo# I" |> cct American iilid Iiri tisll lives. Tlu> I'ii tent would ii't comment on tin If" ul Pupe I'ius XII. l i Ills vicar . i in I? Ni l' depl • mn Hie boiiib : He said tic bad liad tin cumin '11 it ion from the pope. The c< ' lit lie dirl make came in respiiii.-t to a question whether (C<i:.':M.ied on Page Four) Unrest Grows In Balkans T >••.{!' n. July —(AIM—The lit !in i,Kini. acknowledging that a!! cd successes in Sicily had to.uhed off fresh disturbances in thv Balkans, reputed today thi'.t axis troop- had fought a violent battle with Yugoslav par ti. .ins in Montenegro in which 1 of the guerillas weep said to have been killed. A lie-iters dispatch ti'in A - k meanwhile. said thai grow i: ur. 11 si also was ev ident i " C r' where many Greek otti eia . nd police were rep- ted t ! i 'iriidonetl their post- *1*1. di'Pateh snid Gcnmin occupation air •.«•> had issue I a piorla r • !i I'stin such rien as .i:i subject l<> inimediate exe cution. Heavy and Light Navy Surface Units Bombard Jap 8ase After Air Attack Wellington. .Iflly i—(AIM— llca\> mills »r I lie I'nitcd stairs I'arilii fleet bombarded Japa rrsf positions on Kiska island Thursday. Ihr Navy announced today, in tli«' seventh surface at tack this month against the ene my's Aleutians outpost. The -■ >•;! mi; apparently v..i- i:v tended ' • h. stt.11 tin- (lav whet Kisha ch-'i •■■<.« will be -nllct.vd - ill - ficlci-.lly h»i amphibious assault : a filial (.viiMiili ti» llirnw the .lap uncsc out ■ the western Alcet ns Th(» mirliH'c attack \vn> made bj warships which .1 Navy commtini<|iH described '• a- "lit'iivy and !:u surface units." Km my :-,'>re aims re! ned i'it lire but ii"i:e cf tin; American sii 1 *> wa.< d'una-id. A \i 1 \ \ Ucsmati said th»t he <\! I lei 1 unit - . ul'l *incl,ide mudcn ha' tlfihips \\ it 1 tin i'- Hi i"eli Uir . tilde capital w—els with their 14-inc1 imiis. or heavy cruisers with thci 1 L'iit-inch tviitmn. All those cun are classed in the Navy as hcav; cuns. Liglit surface units includi (Continued on Page Three) WEAIIIIR FOR NORTH CAROLINA Not ouifp so warm tndav. fn-»!' r foni»ht. |Nazi Losses Are Heavy ! Last Fortified Link in North Defenses Is Broken; German Attacks Repulsed Mcsrcw .filly — i.AI'l — "ussian loro< s rr.i-licd ihriiuch the last striins;l> fortified link in Orel's iiorllicni defense ves terda.v mi t!u« tvntli tla.v w! an offensive tlia* has cost the Ger mans 50.000 killed and ti.OOO e;:p turcd, and ilosi'd tlieir pineers Milliter about that city despite desperate na/i ciiimtrr a Harks, a Soviet announcement said t» ; day. i iJolkhnv, 35 milc.i abov e the city. ' ' which n I Jed iirmy <• >li 111 >11 raciiiK Id- wn Irani the noitli had 1 >y-j<.i ill i while drivin.u to within nine i .iles 11? m then ■.! «>t Orel, tumbled b»,!>.ie ••i i attackcr .nd i' • tail plcted :t ■ jioulH; ti >ii <ii str mgly ; ntificd districts." in tli.it dirctt . the Uv - Mans said. mould' liilssian column lioundiiiK to within cl"\ri» milrs of tin* kr> German defense city from tin- fast, anil a soulltrrn ciillimn niovins up to compb'tc the tlirrc-lli'adrd drive. heat hack na/.i tout's ami hifauirj to continue a s cjtih istivanrr. ac cording to the So\ ict ai'noiincr incnt. Altogether. ti'i 11 ii.- i..11 : i id g;. lis el lour In 11 \ .• miles win- registered in Uic Orel sector ywii d ty while , !.e Germans li'.-l 2.5on killed e.nd : :<!• tanks dot: "ved <•: capluivd. 1'ri ■ ct s and supplies alsj were taken, the Htissiiins declared. i'l;e Hus-ian iridlught cuinmuni- 1 <|tie which disci id the losses in ! manpower lii HitlcrV army (hiring the ten-day Soviet olfen ive, placed Gi i '.in I'i>sc> in r .;ti m. I destroyed ■ iiptinvd (Jui.ii;: 1'ir ,-anie peri' d , t Ihe-e figure.-: Nine hundred plane.- 1.1 IK. tanks. i.<i(!2 j^tin<- nl virion- calibre. Illlti lin rtiir-. «nd 1.100 machine cuns. i (The German nidi» Countered with ! Ilu IllWtilin til;:! Hi:' lit 1 j.l'i.V ll.id lost ntore than 330,OIK) in Head. \ unded or captured >ince ..Inly l.». terming (he struggle "lite greatest .stile 1.1 atliili'iii ever lough!." Ger 11 ..i> dtirces pic'ttred Hie immensity <•1 the iiwriics racing each other along ' tii" ll'isslan Iron I by saying Incy ' i ivr I- made lip nl <( "• division- (rem 'i.S'to.ooo t'i *i.tHHi.OMO men "presently '• engaged" there.) MKRKItrril ritr.\st'rkk Kalcigh. .Inly 2.'l— (AP)—Zi'iin Mart n of Marion has been elected bttrsar find treasurer "f Mvredith College and treasurer of ihc board of trustees, sutecding Fullfi B. Hamrick. lie is a farmer rravn,- of Marion ~*iH i firmer superintendent of the M.»r:.-n r.rVnnU. Fall Of City Cuts Island In Two Parts Sicilian Capital and Principal Port Taken by Americans in Lightning Thrust Allied Headquarters in North Airicn. ! my 2:'.— (AH)—Amer ican iums, <i:-iv;:ij? forward in a move !•> clean up the west wan! I i.i Sicily. have cap lnre'.l titi' i.-ijiiul irapilal of Pa lermo oi) the ii.»i :h c ast. Capture of the city represent ed a !i, i ::i .• advance :"or the fore •< of l.:i'iitei:ant General lii i.rj.'.' I'a'.t 'ii. Jr.. which • lily v \ .v reported :>0 mile . ..... i! i ■ t.i . i. '\!i.i i a noimal i'::..- •■.»»• i. «_••:. .' i. >>< :!i>*»ut ! "!. I'l: r.u* 1 : «v.." 'i'J milos I r: :»■ '.•<• i ili» is land z:::\ ;> <!.e ;:;-h:«'2nal seaport. By Jrivii:^' .ii.-.iu^n in tne winl:i c.ast lo lapluiv the city, the America.1 forces effectively cut Sicily into t\* n parts, sealing the avenue of escape for axis troops trapped in the west. (The Morocco radio saici this morn ins that a.\i~ troops had abandoned M..rsala and 'i rapani at the western tip of Sicily and were withdrawing eastward.) .mi wjuciiu announceniv;!.t said the Americans entered Palermo at 10 a. in. yesterday. Palermo is tiie undisputed political incl cultural center of Sicily and its rail in Italian eyes would in all likelihood be coti-idcicd ; i..iust the ;an r> a.s I i-s of the entire island. Shipping tacililies provided by the port are expected to be of great ralue to the allies. (The fail of the city was an iiom' cetl in .1 -iit i i.il commiiniqire ivhich said .1 large section of the it:i! 11 u.in 'i :..id f .1 rindcred. ac • i (i • g to . Algiers radio broadcast !ie;.rd l>y A-» riatod Press. (T! i i'i dr. • >. id the Italian Jfith di\ is ti had sui rendered. It iddrd :!if Uriti?h 'oighth army still ivas i . .id ,:i ,, !>ittfr battle for L'at . i .. !n another broadcast, Al iiio s iel.svtd vhat it cailcd "uncon firn.ed let- • i ail'eil headquar ters" that • p ichute forces had landed n ■ Catania while Ihe <;■ • i i up reinforce Tli nts 1 >y a:r.) The Amerie; .: only slight re -ist.'iv n t..i ' nvard sweep .ihI i <>\ • . d \ > y rapidly. (Dispatches :••• n London said the reivsainriv ol : ■ It .1 any defending we.tern !y < u d be expected to give up quickly thi face of the Anient ■■-•■it I' was estimated -.••••• : hove totaled lOO.OOO < at the start of the invasion, including two army divi sions three coastal divisions, and :. a > tin neb »l other troops. (A rep . ' \ < i. i m had brought in « .lit- n n int- w. 3 inter l t tttl in 1. :-d n . - possibly a sign t I cU'tcrmin.i'i i ! • hold a bridge he: d in nort.t.'t Ncily a.-, long as p s-.i>le.) win iw; n i'.i i.o\c;i:i) I luntersviilc. .l.iiy "J.'t.—(AP) — l'. it .i report . the police de p..t l:iicir. k i';l i.-trataij; how not t<» ji-at e nil !;v. Km ire tli n a week wo". Ue:s at t ie II ntcrsvillc sewage disposal 1'it tried t.i t;nd what had clogged one ol the main li '.es. At last thc> found ;t - "hrcc-gallons "jugs ol white liqu • . t:eJ together with a cord. SIX PERSONS DEAD IN CRASH OF PLANE Wa.-h iigto . .Inly L':t (AP)—The fiery crush ol a naval plane near Sit'.: . \l. has claimed the lives ol Mai. lie . Wi'iiaui P. Upshur, \clii.'ii hei • o: the Marines, and Copt- C'haili l'add 'd;. Olympic track star ol thy 20's who once was acc!;ti:< ed as the "world's fastest hu man. Tin- Navy department reported to day that Upshur and Paddock and four other persons were killed when the plane crashed and burned yester day. There were no survivors, and the Navy sad that "the cause of tho ccirivnt has not yet been determin ed." The names ol the plane's four oth er occupants were not disclosed, rcnd'ng notification of next of kin. The Na»-y said that the bodies of ail oas"■n'er? ard merrhers of the crew hav# bitn
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