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Hatlu Htspatrh THIRTIETH YEAR leased wike service or THE ASSOCIATED PKESS. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27, 1943 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTEHKOON T^i\rn /"'PVTTC EXCEPT SUNDAY. rIVL CENTS COPY CHURCHILL SAYS WAR ON ITALY GOES ON II Dace Supported Nazi Defense Plan For Northern Italy Fall of Mussolini Attributed to Backing of Plan to Abandon Southern and Central Parte of Country; New Government Insists Country Stands or Falls Together Madrid, July 27—(AP)—Travelers arriving by plunc from Home today declared that Denito Mu solin; fell because lie supported a German plan t>> abr don central and southern Italy lor a strong defense line in the north, and that he now is «t a villa between Itun.'J and Ostia. The new government of Marshal Picrto Badoglio insists that all of Italy must be defe'.deii if Italy is to remain in the war, and the Germans have bven forc.d to agree, they declared. Hitler ai first proposed a strong stand behind the Po valley, and Mussolini. seeking to do his bidding, was overruled by the fascist gra-d council by a vote of 10 to R, it was asserted. Carlo Scorza, fascist party svere Wiry. was ltported i tui r preventive arrest, with others of i! duce's eollu j oiiiiois cc-nltntd to .iit.r homes. On the i sue <it defense ol nil Italy. Il;iciof*l <• for the moment ha* ;:t If: st the support of the army and the crown. l>i.th of whieh enjoy tremendous popular pre t'g.1 as success rs to Muiselini, this 1'itj. hour account or tin* ciisi- -.1 Rome .said. The f'rs; clerr report of what happened after Muss' 1 :i i resigned came with ti e f-r. t Ala Lit >r'a plane in 1 leave Rome since thf eve t. It is j .-iuni icar.t c,r 1 lie swill ehanges that' •he pkv c arrived stripped of all! lase .-t i.-signia. maiked only by the Italian national c >1 >rs. and '.hit an! hour alter its arrival the fa.-cist | name Ala Litoria had changed to! Ala Roma in the line's offices. 14-60 Cent Price Range On Georgia Mart Opening Common Grades Sell High, Better Leaf Out of Proportion in First Sales (By The Associated Press.) Georgia's new crop of eisarette tobaeco brought from 11 cents to 60 cents per pound on initial sales today. The first row auctioned at Vidalia nave the growers a high of CO cents with tiic lowest grade selling for 20 cents. On the Til'ton market, the first row brought from 30 to 50 cents. Common grades yielded unusually high prices and good tobacco r.ot as high in proportion. Growers hoped the cciling price rf 41 cents per pound would be marked on the major part of the flue cured crop to make up the increased cost ill wartime production. The 41-cent ceiling, announced Saturday l>y the OPA, applied I" the average of all purchases made by a single buyer during tiie season without regard to nrade> or localities. Thus a buyer could pay (i."> or 7ti cents a pound f ir high gr.ide lent, as was the ease last year "ti sonu. markets, it lie bought enough cheaper tobacco to bring his average purchase price down to the ceiling. While a quantity of good grac-ie tobacco usually is olfered at the start ol uuction-. much of the weed at the epening sales, is of the "lug" variety which comes from Ihe bottom of the stalk and is courser and of lower quality than leaves higher up. Farmers with good stands of the leaf looked loiward to making more money thi; year than in the past several years, despite the higher cost of labor. Several sections reported tobaeco had cured out to a higher grade than in previous years. At Valdosta, the first row at one warehouse averaged slightly more (Continued on Page Two) Broughton To Ask Change In Labor Laws Raleigh. July 27—(AIM—Governor Broughton will a.sk the council of state next week for authority to proclaim additional changes in the State's labor laws. Tht' modifications, prepared by I.abor Commissioner Forrest II. Shuford and the State labor advisory committee, are intended to be of temporary duration to help relieve th<< serious manpower shortage. Shuford said thv chances would: Permit adult women to work its much al ten hours a (lav. but no more thnn If? hours a week. Permit minors 10 and 17 years of age to work a full ten-hour shift 'n a plant which operates such a shift. Permit minors 14 and 15 years of ape to work as late as fl p. m. Permit girls from 14 to 18 years of ac*> to deliver newspapers on (Continued on Page Two) Liberators Raid Wak£ Washington, July 27.—(AI')— A flight ni' Liberator heavy bomb- 1 crs raided Wake island. Socio- , tary Knox reported today, and pounded the Japanese base | "promiscuously and generally." '1 ho (light of Liberators was intercepted l>v a group ol Zero fighters. Of those, nine were shot I down, lour were probably shot dc v. n and five were d.uiiagca. Kiiox told his press conkicnc.1. One American plane is listed as missing. The Pacific island had been raided half a dozen times lielore. As for an estimate ol damageon tlu latest attack, the Navy ••ecretary said simply that "we hit the island promiscuously and generally." The Berlin radio had >. id yelerday that the raid had I e n ioafie. attributing the reporl to a Tokyo dispatch. Fifth Raid | On Hamburg 48-Hour Pounding Began Saturday; R.A.F. and American Planes Take Part Lnntlon. July 27.—<A1')—I-'or the fifth lime in 18 hours Hamburg was attacked from the air last night as the RAF sent Mosquito bombers over the Oermaii seaport for the third successive night, the British air ministry news servicc said today. Returning crews said there was a elcar sky over the devas- { trsted city and flames could be j sren while they were still more I than 30 miles from the targetAirmen were quoted as saying that I the link Wiis not si> intense us hud b'hi expected but there were .stunc night lighter.*- on patrol. The air buttle. designed apparently to fliit U ii Germany's great port en Hamburg. begun Snturduy night when HAF heuvy Jiombers carried ; otil the greatest ruid of the wur. ' dropping 2.30(1 toils uf explosives una i incendiarie-. Since that lime the HAF mid the U. S. AAF hu.s kenl u:> | round-t lie-clock at tacks. The U. S. AAF hit tin- pol l in duy- I light Sunday with u large fleet of • heuvy bomber.- and the same night j HAF and the U. S. AAF have kept up ) tucks. The Americans raided the cily in i daylight again yesterday and the air j ministry put »ut the preliminary an- t nouncement that Hamburg hud been | attacked even before the official communique. \ Nothing wo? said conccrning pos- I '?iblp RAF losses. COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED ON SICILY 21 Junkers Transports Shot Down Amcrican-Canadian invaders Attack in Northeastern Area of Island Allied Headquarters in North Africa, July 27—(A!')—American and Canadian troops, throwing tin mxclves forward in the northeastern area of Sicily, nave ciu to pieces savaj?-' German counter attacks in the central sector and advanced over ground strewn with axis dead, allied headquarters announced today. At the same time a headquarters eomtnmiiiiuc announced that allied air forces liad smashed a new enemy attempt to brim: reinforcements on a lar»;e scalc into Sicily by shooting down 21 huge German Junkcrs-52 transports in a battle over Messina Strait. It was stated officially that German troops now have been klentui ;d nil along I he entire front in northeastern Sicily where they are i»ttempting 1" build a dike across the lip of the inland lo block the invasion gale.- to Italy. Enemy lo-ses skyrocketed i»» the central and southern portions of the lint? and a number of German battalions lost half of their effective strength in .ittempts to balk the relentless froward push of the allied troops who swept in a wheeling movement from central Sicily. The Canadians boiv the brunt of Ihe operations and made gai:is iganist the heaviest opposition, and he allied c ■mimtnique said the \merican advance, too. was proceedrg "according to plan." However, the Germans were maniging to >tilfin their resistance as he Americans drove into the harder •ore of the enemy's defense posiions. Activity in the Catania front ■vhere the Germans arc fighting 1>| »old the gateway to the Me.;s :iaj •scape port was still confined to parol action. MANY A11 I ED PLANES 1 RAID LOW COUNTRIES London. J my 27 — (AP) — Hunii-ef's of Allied fighters and light t>omhc"s attackcl industrial targets <t Zeebrugge a™d oremy air fields r-l-ewhero in Belgium and Holland ■•v daylicht today, the ah- min'stry' lnnounced. The day's operalii-ns in tlv rclen'less air offensive aca'nst the continent followed upon the fifth attack irt •!!> hours o Hamburg. TO OBKERYK ( KIMNG Wasili gton. July "JT—(AP)—Com- | tnodity Credit Corporation officials said today that buyer- of flue-cured ! tobacco in markets tli's year will observe OP A price ceilings. The offic.als said thai their buyers for lend lea-c did not observe Ihe ceiling last year, bee; rise it was put nn in the middle of the season after much of the crop had been sold. Point Value Of Butter Increased Two Feints Washington, July J 7—(AP)— Bui-1 tor will co I Ihc houM'wiie two more' points per pound beginning August 1, but shorteninu. lard. salad ;i d cooking oils will it.s! one point loss! and mi major change.- will lie made in meal values, the office of price! ad:: inistration tir.nouuccd tod y. The new re™ point values will re- | mil in in el feet through September 4. The two-point increase for butter brings the cost to 11) poin's .i pound. Margarine remains unchanged at four points. In jumping the point cost of butter. OPA said it was attempting to bring consumer demands into line with the av. ilnblc supplv. For several months, it was explained, civilian consumption of butter had exceeded allocations. OPA predie'ed that the higher po n' cost of butter wniH Stimu late Hit' <ii ift Tim- other I.it- iiij oils. Tin in' |»t»itit \ il ic for '.i i is three p >• !>• >ii- (I. wliile .-Ii >itenin^ ami • ' ind cooking oils an not a: to n- iKiinis. OI'A n'iii"v<'tl two meat item from the > " -ned list. I'l-e.-h }»■ »rI backbone- . "'I feet (bone i ). wliici have cost point per pound. In eon*' nr. "i ;>'ce. OI'A . I these items wore «• uii ration free i'realise of she lar^e .lip ply and t 'c faet that ttovernmen ,ni;c < ics <i • "ot pareh so Ihcni Canned i> ••• 'eft. bone in. will <"•one point 1" August, complied will two pnin'> during July. While ii" changes were made ii the more populnr beef cuts. OP/ predicted a increase of about 1 per cent in "1f* civilian supply. The inrrr;i-e in the beef suppl; is espc-trd 1^ offset a derl.no ii th<» ?:>rr!." P"1^. American Troops Kilter Palermo, Sicilv This is 0110 tii tin- lirst photos 10 show Atncrican troops in Palermo, capital of Sicily. Yank soldiers in a half track conic into one of the city's main streets to reccive a grand ovation by civilian Sicilian* waving white surrender Hues (sheets on poles). 1'. S. Army Signal Corps Uadiophoto (International Soundphoto.) Ground Drive For Munda' Under. Way Allied Headquarters hi (he Southwest Pacific. July 27— (AP)—Presaged l«.v a (iOO-tun air and sea bombardment, the American cround offensive against the strategic Munda air base in the central Soliimiims was under way today. Softened i> i y a week's continual jombing. tlu Japanese y.ve ground grudgingly .• iI along i■., perimeter >r Mtr'il:.': defenses yesterday. 5110 raicly in .• v sector, and while delaiis of the lighting were lacking t undoubtedly wa.s Rlie ,-;art of the li'rtg hi raided adv ance. This fir-1 general offensive reported sine,, the battle t> . the N'. w Re i-land began lour weeks iiU'i followed a destructive attack Monday morning by Nuv> Dauntless no A vender bombers which braved intense u\- ird fii'e to dump 112 it ns of ben •- on pin p' lite:! gun positions and personnel targets aroir • I the big base. To the v :-t on New Ouinci. I >rmal'eiv: of Liberators and Klving Foitn -so- dumped 137 t< n< of I) nibs on the S;i!ai'..iua area—the heavi '-t bomb l'«arl vel dropped in a single ;!av on that -ector. S' utii o! _ Salaniaua. allied forces at Nassau IV v and at Tanibu Hay a fo\v miles t! i> north were attacked ineffectively v Japanese bombers FOOD TO MARTINIQIE Wash :u:- .luiv 27 — (.M')—l.endlease shi] • ' "I sorely needed fo id and ollici plies have readied the Fivncli ( ai iean islands -if M artini(|iie antl delotipe to relieve the distressed p •pulation. Kdward I!. Stettiniu-. lord-lease adinini-trutor announced last night. Italian Bid For Peace Indicated By Rome News Knox Expects Peace Move Washington, July 27.—(APj— Secretary Knox said today iiial developments in Italy indicated some attempts to take thai cituuIr.v out of the war in the reasonably near future. Tli.' Navy secretary loiil Ins press conference that lie had "no exclusive information" on the iiituation. hut that it was l.is esumate "that the appearance of things indicates liroluibly stun, attempt at taking Italy out of the war." lie was asked whether lit meant an attempt by Kins I inaiiuele and Marshal Badoglio. successor to Mussolini, lie replied that he meant such an attempt. Radio Talk Scheduled President Roosevelt Will Make Address . Tomorrow Night at 9:30 O'clock Washington. July 27.—(AIM — President Itooseveit will uo on the. air tomorrow night to deliver a half-hour address which the White House described as of "major importance." The address will begin al !::."•!) P. m. I WT. President. I Stcrct-iv Sti .< n Karly ti-• I int its to its prr r> subject 111..."t i It will be Mi. KtMMscvcll'f fit's I tai'ii t<> I he Aim i* .it people -i'uv 1 > downfall <>1 Mussolini in II;.iy. Asked whether the nddn Will . dciil eh icily with the home front war front or a combination <>1 the i two. Karlv s.ud "lite speech v. ill explain itself." While it >v.is considered ccrtain ;n • Chief Kxcculi\e would Inkc the "rl«.i tunily t" ill least analyze biicily | (slime of the latest development- ol the war. theie lias been a i;nnvmt impression that lie desired In .-iddrc i , the public "it home Iron! matters . TI <• addrcs-. to be earned on all ttcii works, will be the first, also, t-inec , several major disputes on the donicsI tic scene have flared tip. notably that between Vice President Waliar. i and Secretary Jones over the pir : rh-'is,n'T of critical v.rr sv:;*p:c roroar!. Dispatch From Bern Says Negotiations Started in Vatican; ; New Regime Silent Horn, July 27.—(AP)—While Premier Pietro Badtixlio ami his newly formed cabinet set about Die (ask of maintaining meter I and sweeping Italy of I lie outward _y inbols ol fascVni. ivIHirts from Home indicates a I' popular belief there that one of the fi/st rjets of the nc\i aovernment would be a request for an armistice. (In London. Unite:-* <)ti<tt•':! ;i ' i it'll I dispatch the K\in.-,;i l>.^ , 'I.idol in Stockii ! -a; nil Th.it | preliminary negotiations In - .111 ar' :ui-t if * betwec;i Italy ;.n>l tin- . Ilit'..began in Vatie.ri City ia.-t light. 1'i.ele wa< no 11:::: ■ -m-.tf exiilii: • alii 11 i t this report. hovevt r. (Tin.* Ssvcnska Dagbladet dispatch al.-o said tlilit German Ambassador Hans Georg Victor von Macken.-en was holding a m no «*i talks with Pninier Badogim. r.ppart r.tly I" l«;j:i the I;.Iter's altitude \ Avard Germany.) ' While liiid •;lio ha.- not yc oiti1 ,.lly proclaimed the tascist pint^ dead, the new premier and his minis crs ate cleaning house throughout ;hi nation. Tin i.i-tist party lieaci<)il,li ters have been t.il.en over, Bclil.o Mussolini ..lilt • 'in. high ta.-ci.-ts are reported under pr< tcctivi eu.»l.idy and the nati 'iial police mice has been reorgan./cd uiide. a inilitarjr administration, ut'ctirdinit U> political and diplomatic :t-1 >-i 1 - frtniilu I'. Iiaii capital. 1 Whether the Italian p i s- ha- been Mi-lorcd lis 11.II 1 ret lit. t-xp i-.-itui o: whether tin- new tovt-i nnient \\a- not >ct able ' • apply e »t-*tr<»iwas nitt yet certain, but indication ! are that most <! the 1e-1 .id a 11- that have letleied newspapers for year.- under fascist rule Iiave been lilted, at.lcast temporarily. One ol Badoglio' gtcalc-l worries apparently, is the prest nee ot i»t\nan Iroops in Italv Uep >1 ts per.---. that Adulf Hitler still hope* t•» e:tablish a defense I • ■ in nortlieri Italy should Italy Willi pse i»t g" ovct to the allies under ten "uncoi.ditiolial »tii'render." (iAYI)A Ol STI 15 London. .Inly '21 ( A11 > The ed torshlp ot II Glornale d'ltalia, fo vtnis semi-oil icial organ ol Benit Mussolini and li s Kascist Govern ment. ha been taken over by Sen ato Alberto Berdamiiu. Berlin an notineed last night. Beifl.'tnini lotmdvd the paper ii I!»ttI and directed it ir.til 11124 wliei it was taken over by Virginio Gayd 1 The Berlin aimuoneeme. t wii< hcan by The Associated Pre--. Wt41lltR FOR NORTH CAROLINA Continued warm this aflernnot tonHhl and Wedn-<-dny forenoon Widflv scattered Hititid'rsitower e/c 1/ l*t? ;:i«H";t'J'-.ti. No Overture For Peace Received Prime Minister Tells Commons That Order to Exert 'Utmost Rigors' Are Issued London, July 27 — (AP) — Prime .Ministor Churchill iold a cheering house of commons today that "Italy will be seared and scarred and blackened l'rom one end to the other" unless the new government headed by j Marshal I'ietro liadoglio abandons Germany'.- war against the United Nations. Speaking at a supreme moi ment in his career as Britain s I wartime prime minister when j his arch foe inniio Mussolini has disappeared from the see no, 1 Churehii! orders t% exert the "mm. .-t i*;;.o;* of war" against Itaiy a'.read;. had gone lout to allied commander*. No overture 4 o". n arc have bron received troin the elderly successor to Mussolini, the "first oi the ilielators to ko." C'hurch; ill said, and therefore, no new decisions by the allies were callrd for except to bring "the | maximum avalanche of fire and steel upon all targets of military I significance throughout the length and breadth of Italy." "I know litlle or nothing of the new government." lie said. "I cxpre-j, no opinion upon it." i The allied course, he .-aid. would be to leave the Italians to "stew in their own ju.ee for a bit" with the aim of obtaining from the Italian ; government full facilities for carry| ing on the war against Germany. These facilities, it was assumed, .nc! cied air bases. But i:i the interest of the -upreme I ■ bject i : destroying the na/.i war ' machine. ho warned against throwing Italy into seeh political chaos as to leav' tho allies no government I to deal with or cnlruot to policing Italy while the war is pursued 1 again.-; ('.v iinanv, ••The unconditional surrender of Italy >!i. M r,» l>i" -uh' about wholesale ;:iul ' pieci rial." he -a:d. Declaring that the British and United Sti te.« « • e n iionts were In continuous >■ isullation. ho said, '.hvv we c "• ct's'.g :i the closest concert" in the Italian situation. Reds Regain 70 Villages Troops Move Ahead on Three Sides of Orel; German Losses Are High Mosi'im. .Inly '!7.— (AIM —. . Kiissian troups moved .illrati on I liter sidCs of the hcleajtuered German base al Orel yesterday, capturing *0 more villages, a So, --'let rommunitiuc said. despkc bitter 11.1/.I resistance. ; German liases win- reported ruiii Minu high as Hit" ii.i/i eonntcr attacked dope: ately to hold Orel «ind I In relieve the pressure already being lelt ii( I'.i y. n.-k. ait important mil I base I" 'lie we-:. Tlie Soviet mid• communique -aid that 5.000 German* v.en killtd in tne days I lighting. Tlie war liiillelln disclosed t:iat liiosian troops had ernssed the Oka river north of Orel and Were cuttin-; in behind the city ' to threaten the Orel-Bryansk railway, tnily avenue of escaae for the Germans. One Soviet coluinii of the northern spearhead has reached Berestna. t.'» t miles to the northwest, the Kusi I sians said. The southern ll. nk ul the Russian I winy i-^ following the line of the Kur.-k railway and has taken several • towns m an advance reaching to | Ycropkina, only 17 miles from Orel, I the bulletin added. Elsewhere on the Russian front, | the Red army conducted scouting and i» {reconnaissance activities. In the Bel' corod area fighting "of local impor(Cor.l.micd or T\v.'- T.vo) w
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