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fS Hwtfteramt Umlij Htspatrlj E THIRTIETH YEAR W1KB MKKV1CK ur TMK ASSOCIATED I'HESS. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTKKXOUX, AUCUST Hi, HH-'J PUliLISlIKlJ KVKltV AFTKKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Four Red Divisions Push Drive Beyond Captured Karachev | Main Escape Route J For German Troops In Orel Salient If. Cut by Advance Moscow, Auk. 1<»—(AI*)—■ Four lied army divisions push I ed ahead from the captured i German bastion of Karachev ' on the 2(> mile road to Bryansk today alter severing the last main line of escape of nazi i troops trapped in the Orel sal-! ient The crmnumist party news-1 paper I'ravda said that the So-! viet forces were cutting! through dense forests, acting! to prevent the Germans from ' organizing adequate defense; lines on die Desna river. Karachev fell. I'ravda saiil, \v1i<' n lour Russian divisions | stoimrd strong nazi fortifications : on the hills conunandin; the ap- I proncaes to the cil.v and thru 1 piiis.ii ;! the [Icrinc na/.is into the streets of tin- I, limine town. 1 The ( c'ciipali'in ■ >f Karachev olcis- ! fd the m;.in line <>l esejijW lor tier- J mars remain.ng in the Orel salient following the Ku-sians' lightning i drive westward. The size of the enemy force en circled could w>t be cslimetcd iin inedii'lely bul earlier dispatches in dicated that the Germans failed to retire a large number of men and war machinv.s from the Orel front before '.lie base al Karachev was cut otf. Tass reported the battle for Kharkov had reached a climax. The Germans were said to he throwing troops into the battle as soon as they could reach the front and resistance was in creasing. Karachev lies on the brink of an immense forest covering Bryansk from (he east. The Germans based all their i coun'er offensive* in the Bryansk J sector from the vital rail jimcli >n of Karachev and intended to hold off thr l{ed army here long enough to erect impregnable defense.-! along the Desna river. Volume Gains On Border Florence. S.C., Aug. Ifi—(AP)— | Sales on the Border Hell market • | for flue cured tobacco went into their third week today with ttv> av- i erage holding at better than 341 a hundivd pounds and volume picking up slightly. The war food administration said South Carolina sales for the Si'a.-cn through lasl week amounted t<> !). 271,350 pounds for an average if $41.04 while North Carolina markets , sold 11.066.720 pounds at an aver-; age of $11.17. Sales were less than half tlm-,. of | tilt1 comparable period last year. H FA reporter). Prices, however, picked up from $1 In S3 a hundred over opening week. SIHAL I,I>KFICIT Washington. Aug. If!.— (AP)—The post office department closed the 1943 fiscal year (June 3(1) with a de ficit of what it said was S3..143,122, the smallest in 24 years. The 11142 deficit amounted to $11. 825.1B5. which had been the smallc.-t since 191!). Bankhead Complains Jasper. Ala., Aug. 16.—(AP)— Senator John Mollis Bankhead. long time advocate of hicner fai mi prices, complained today lliat lood costs have gone l >o high. And, he siiid with irritation, someone in the price control pro gram Int.- mulled the hall. Most <>l the grumbling hack home, the Alabama Demon;1' said in an interview, is concern ed directly with excessive food costs specifically the prices of vegetables and meats. "And." s.iid Bankhead, "f think the complaints arc jus lifivd." Oltcn spokesman for the con gressional liirni bloc, and author of many bills to increase faim income, Bankhead said d»lcluilv 'liiit fiiriners generally were bik ing a figurative black eye h«— cause a few "specialty crops" like fresh vegetables ami fruit~ had risen excessively in price, that, loo," tie Maid. "Meats have gone too high." "And y<>u can add meats to He added that he didn't be lieve ;-*jces were excessive for basic lood crop3. yuch a? corn, peanuts and wheat. Reds Look West MILITARY EXPERTS believe tll.'it the tri|»Ie Kus-i;ii) drive auain.st the (iemians (shaded area! lias ;i. ,t i goal the Dnieper Ifivcr. It is pre dicted that nt the end of the Milli liter rainy season the push t'> this Dnieper ;vi|| provide the S..vietj with a .springboard for a wir.ter enmpnign. <! uteriiat tmial t RAF Raids , Across Alps Attack on Milan Sustains Offensive Including Raids On Nazi Airfields London. Aug. Hi.—<AP»—ISri lisli heavy homheis struck aern^« the Alps into northern Hal) last nicht. il Mas annoiniccd loiia>. and Swiss reports said the tar iff t again was Milan, hit t\\ie«* prrvioiisly in the past four nights. The new l>AF Mow u 1 .iiicfi a mighty l*i I'l.-li-AniC'i ir.iti . ir • llen M\r that included raid Saturday night <>ii Mil.hi and iScrlin, on Hu ll \ is airfield at Si. (hner. i-'.aiice. ill rlnylijfli! ye. terdav. and on >i\ enemy airdrome in France iitul JI■ • i!.■ iid a; iusk. Strong lures of Flying !• •I'trcsscs, rojn ing jiero.- the ciinnw ! > tl-e lat est hour tliev have ever .i»l<•«I Imi lope, Music.I the six ;orliel'i>. o! licially cle.-ei il.< il liv t !•< - I'. S • • i *.*. I»111 iiir Inrce "(Ieriii;in\'- ino-t no !>oi tiint -ral 1011..I li;;U"' airdrome*, in western Knro|« The airlielri'» liomherl i1 (In I; J-'st nicht l»y the Flying Fin< s.-'-s, es corted l>v I!. S. Thnndeiliolt . were located <il I'oix, Ai e ii ■. I lie. Vitre en-Ardix and Mnrvill" in i i nice nun Vlissingcn in Holland. In iuidilion to lioiiioinu (lie air drome ill St. timer. Mu. under lii*!|l hoinliers ul o raided the ' 'Iwny (" li ter ill AMicville. 'Open City' Ruse Seen Briton? Believe Italy Will iNot Meet Requirements Set For Open Cities London. Ans. Mi—(AIM—I5e Iiff thai the Italian declaration of lintnr as an "npni city" was merely a trick l>> Premier Mar shal rirtrn Itadoglio (n spare it frem furtlier bombardment ap pen red to be crowing in Clre-it Britain today and land Iteaver brook's l.ondon l>ail.v Kx press bluntly demanded that allied air attacks be eontinned until Italy nulls the war. There has been nr> of I it*i;i I eoni inci t in London on the It.'ilinn dec laration and two was anl ieifiiifed i-i Ihr absence <f Piime Mini;tiv Winston Churchill in Canada. 'I'lir Heme radio itself Wiirncd ltal;,t\s thai they cm tin evpec' security (Continued on Pago Five) Vllllllf FOR NORTH C AROLINA. Continued warm this after noon. tnnieht and Tuerday lore noon. (J. S. Troops Overrun Axis Rear Guard; SICILIAN CAMPAIGN NEARS END Milan Demonstrators Urge Peace Latest Raid WciksHavcc Tc Industry I Marchcrs Disregard | Armed Guards Placed1 About Bombed Areas Of Italian City - i Cilia.i.i: i,n« Swiss-Ital ian •r'Hiticr. Atijr. Hi- (Al*)— .Milan worker- inarched Ilironuii the hcrninjc ruins of thai unci' urea! industrial city in a now ilt niciislraiion for peatv oarly today. telephoned reports t > the froptiiT hen- said. These reports added that ihe dtmiiiistratii n hejran al 7 a. 111. todr.y (midnight. KU'T). about live !i«hii*> after the end of the latest KAK raid on the city. Disregarding armril guards thrown about Ihr still burning and smoking arras, tin* demon strators picked their way thriiugh tin* ruhhlc in the strceK nhi'il erics that tin* war s 1111III 'I In* ended and shouted . gainst lIn's • w ho caused it. the reports added. The debris in the #Sreels ol tlie* cilv \va* said lo l>c 15 In :!!• Icct feigh. Milan has virtually ceased In exist as a c'tv, said persons ar riving a I tin* frontier from there. These traveler... asserted two tnw i*rs of the cathedral had collapsed. I In* Sorrcsco pa lace was destroyed and the i"\ 1 palace damaged. In Ihe heavily attacked Sea I a Farina hvisiit yards, rails stuck up like up rooted tree®. The industrial area was heav ily plastered with liiiinhs Iniisril by the RAF bombers that drove through violent anti-aircraft fire last nichl to (five the northern Italian industrial center ils third druhhing in four days. Kire brigades were reported in iblc In cope with the fires started by the h i'! bmi.hs. Axis troops, said travel<'i.. arriving here, wen*; ini'iintinc a :r..*id unard everywhe e j in an effort t" check the confu ' si'»n a.s lliniivinrls upon thousan'ls j • if tie* inhabitant^ continued to flee Ihe city, mostly pushing toward this iror.tier. Norse Purge Threatened Sl"cl;li..lm. Auk. — (AT) — A (•ciman .irnoimcement from (>.sl<i | d' -dared t'xl:i,v that (iiilitiar Kilifsen, j cli el hi Norway's civil |»nliit*. had I u-i 11 executed :iiirl threatened the execution nf hi her Norwegian <iffi ci s in ;i |>ur«e In compel the police In cnfnree nazi nccipatinn orders. Kililsen was killed al dawn by a lirinR MJiind. it was announced. II wa.s added that when a number uf other officers relused lit sij>n a (IrclaiMlinii nf loyally. .Tunas Lie, minister nf police. v.irned that they would lie court martiiled today, and shot tomorrow. The officers then signed. F5R5T YANKS TO LAND BEHIND AXIS LINtS SOME of Ciwia! 1'iitt infantrymen %.!.•• ; • !i j in ti,i . :i; •:". o laiulin;: l-i himl the Ax;., linos In northern Sicily lake time out to cx:< ..ine a \ . . 1 < k i i: : l . . The r; . ;:\vlt 4 figure ill the foi\<>ui;d is that of the t'.i nr. n d: ver. vvi:o v...j I; i in the ait;.Th is Hi.» lir.-.t picture tai;c:i after tiic am lihibioiu l.it-.iiitu ('■» arrive in tin. Colin;... L". U. J. CV; I S Ka.ii Dhoij. t /nferiiniVmnM Churchill In Quebec Prime Minister Spends Three Days With President At Hyde Park Q II e It r e. A II K. Hi—' Xi't — I'rime .Minister Churchill \\ a s liack I nil.iv after a lir.rrd.n visit with President iiusr\cll al llwle I'ark and ( li <• American Chief l\ci'lllivc \\ a s i'\|irrlril liere sti«>rtl> for the uin-iuiu: »f llicir war strategy coiilVrciicc. An announcement I'ro.i ",<• \\ i !•■ Hon c in W i.-tiiimloii jf ti il.i i the impression tin- meeting t i 1 ,rc:..cli*iil and the prm:« was primarily social. but tlw e pea red little (litul>: 1 lie.", u;i\«■ p c liminarv consideration to ttie \ <■ - enee tsendii The print? ininiKtvr rctui <ii yesterd.iv and immcdia'.c > m-i •• work. A Wl. e Mouse iimit.iiiii-i said the I'.v- (ent "i~ letuniiun Wiishiliat " . 'lit h e w ; I I I '.n I Quebec cm • i'Ik-i tin.- wc> Milit.ii> <■!- ot >t in>; nations aire :iy are on ! uni Hcvrloprmeiils d u r i ii « I li e early phases n I' the h a r talk* last week, after the prime minis ter's arrival from r.nul.iml on Tuesday, simitested a limr-iioint agenda f»r the filial stages. Allied i ! try .strategy l ■ |>resuniiil>ly "Ci ipies the t >j> among all r liters the al!;e l > !• must ex n nie The other three point:, app • i (Con*;:i led nil Page I' v e) Latest WMC Regulations Force Fathers To War Jobs W i-liumton. A ii u II!—(AP) — Il'i vou'if a "lathee and think it'* bright | to uainble mii the i «%V I'l'Rilliilinns i>.i:ed by the wjir manpower coin Hussion ovtM ihc week-end, remem ber | WMC thought ol Hi t and came up '.v illi an iinswor: All men of milit ary am*—fathers ii'i'l childless married tnon alike— ii ! traiisler to jobs related to the war oi he pliifcd lust in line for Army induction bv then local boards. Sm|i|«> c a father fijsmes: I have I wo children nd a wife. I'm mi i non-essential job. it pays jw.od inonev. it's easy and it's work I know. Kttoiifth other lathers will take the regulations to heart and fill up enotigh war jobs to keep produc tion up I'll r^rk al^:ir; 'v hfrp I am. Wht-n the ' I'd M'es I 11. t \ «* l they'll li ml round for mm without .1- tut pirk h n liei i ■ Ally wav (' ru::ess I* n>m n:; i" Septeml" 1 'I may prr\ r;r • i>f rathei - The W.MC reply |<> tli.ii per cully >t:.*«-i this: I; waut> suit- tluit ! •' ! il'st I ill In-1 . ! . lit- I ted will :ho.»e eoutrihiitniu !< ti» the w:ir effort." If :i I tlir like the otie i led ■ " « wnnts t" h 'Me mi C>>n:: i inc the fl aft <»f fnther:-. he n i; i: n fleet: These rer. ilatinus take Pre full weicM " Oetoher. A <(•,. debate " ( "'i:;re.., mn • l < ■ • i!< take t'lir t '"inre s m ;h! <11 i il < war eornc.' fir.-t and latin < n > e sent,-.: *- production jhould ji . til® *k :v*" Allied Air Forces Down 48 Jap Craft New Carrier Shangri-La in* • ' s. s. : , < (| i< it:uUri r S. .. iv nrlio!! Leaf Ceiling Slows Sales Farm Labor Problem May Arise as Result Of Selling Rush On Late M?»rket 1I.il inc. r.—-(MM—1' lii"it.ipi ' f.riniTs In oil' .' I'i'ir liii'.'nn lot sale licloic ill <>ri♦<•«* t |iii«v .i(lmi;ii-.li.ili. i Ciitillilr'.i- it- s'uih of t !••• ttl'lglilrt! price I rilimrs I'll!" rTil:l • <1 a"<l li«il lr.iT K li.iMr t<» •n.ikr II' • l.iJmr vtnsiUiin «•> en nimi' ."tii,. tit SDiiii t :it-nliit.i. farm nni,i|iimcr IMr^clur ll.iii'> < .1 iilui ! •••lid loci i>. !n « . .. i li A I. il uita •« I : i-ci : 1 • i'i;r' .i :•! i"!;1 n ij.n;; f<> ' • U-..I . M'l ;i ' ' *ft* n iill j |n| 1(1 ;• I ! 'I ;nv i. fi.i- i iiuMi ; ' • :.•'(! :i >■ I in ted effort Vl'ftlll he ■ . I • • .!..«• !he wright*fl u • ■ • ci' I • v. " cli iii vimUIj . 'li V'l . ' 'III' "li'^ili.d li^ 'ii II If I. C:«ldtv«*11 ,.i;(l. I.., I''I> wil l'»' I'M': •. i'ii 11' '■(I ,• ili'v •ml V fll ••• • 1 lr III III I| 'In-; ViW 1' i!'i v ilf iivr f|<i(. : i'i ,ii '. i. v. uM r* nl: in i ,r. i! . * .'.1 r.i • - Y ■ a Allies Lose Only Five Warplanes And No More Than Three Pilots A Mini i" "i«" • iiiilhucsl I'.i. ili. . \u£. Hi.— I A3')—Alii, tl \v.!i |»l.iur">. iIIn |il.i> inu in liir pi iilrclii.n ni thill' -.rtiiuul !«»!*«•*• — .1 vi'-ilriiir nin.il ti> the zrill \\ itli uhitli lhr> r.ir i ifil lite altarN In (lit* oiirim. slm. tlil'AII IK .1.1 Iliilll'M* .III I I .il l "I llicm ImiiiiImts—n\it tl*i- -tuita uo-l r.inii, li.iilir limit >o*lor ll.lN . Thi.- .tieri it. " ci i!i I ■«!.'>' iiiuiutiu« from «;• iioial I > ifllsi : ' \ * »I .it , i i ; ' « ..lllfl ..mill . ; . ' II i i' j'l i • i 111 .•i Iv lilt » :v.'ot'k - hiiwv t»l. Stall t»l tl I. V. I '.It'll :■ •« i:.-l\ «•. :<!:•>- - vifttn\ ,.I Hie tkhv ..\ Nil'•uions i.-l.iiiM iiitti Hii|i|ii'ii>t*j . v. (Il.ilit i i i li i -h in i i' 'It I • ! lllfl i - •! U llit'tl .it"! I.I I iii .i i I'iti • . ... v. hi • t J.'ii . A. 111.:. . 1 /.nil !i:..S im l>y •„ . • M. I ' • i■»It'ii miii.-1 • il i tl in v ii . . p iviiftt ti ih i .,. (Mitt-wr will i .■ dteisivc. In lr11 Mliftl> jiotial oiiliinat yos i> rday. Alni'flron.* «• l the Solomon i- :iiii.ilit! . i i ill. .ii, Hvrh t iliv< Inm i'i i - and - - fighters. miaiiini . • i.| lv, i i., (lu ll ■ n |. . t ii > ■ >e i :i I' • t iioiuv eialt. ii-.'' . i pit (I 11 if v v iijtii .»'11111 il toward tin* New l • • ■ -i lii.i liclit 1 /i >110. Wl'l'l -III'! 11 ■ • W! I 111 till' vi .ui i> >iiuii.il < i Vt-i;.. i..i\oii.i i.-iiui'i :•• m-\ «i. v m kit ■i Kftl tmi . f. t .i tr Ilium' ;-.i o >1 Kahili l».v ' s. airmen v,ii.- l.iikllj walled In ■ . . 'I i i i Mr.n. SEU'-HELD STUDENTS OFFERED EL.ON JOBS I : •:! ; •.•.'•l;.', Aug Hi Kloli Col till: i' f!l in llt'Otl •; ill loa>t : a .'ir.v -vll-liolp ni.i'f studentx. U|i \i ;tl:-• she i It uf had a ji i ' Hi > u \ .piK'irliOMlH'll 1 ■ the f I t- !l" Iip|M'l * .i.i » f 1 I >1 *" "'I' ll«> Willi •• • oloaniiig build •. tv<irUn»K "ii I ho ciintjHI* ami !•. i ilh'tio laim ote.. ait. being ^ivi'ii i ■ frtvlnncu. AMI si II \VAK \V pbltiRlnn. Alls lA ' \I'> — Ams 1' I- ii.iv e neon 'I' ' >yt'(l il Hit' ralo ' i (ilxitit "in- i 'lay for Ihi (ki ! • • ci in n'|», m ;iM "i| oa i iIon 'r 11 tl I 'li al , n'" liiifp n' >; i'i i 11 .- ■1 It tl "i tin- i.J.. •: i •» A— • i • v .. i 'vi •• dur tig Nazis Leave Last Stand To Italians American Forces Reach Milazzo Area To Deprive Germans Of Escape Port AI!i<■:! 11 n: North Afrit;!. An;r. Hi—(A!'|—I'nil i«l Stati-.- inxiji- wire i.vrrnm Minj; tin- ;«xi - n ar ^luird today in tla- vicinity .Mila/.zo, 14 milt - west ni Mi .-.-iisa. and it was ofl'icially >tat«'d thai the t*)icI uf tli - Sii-i">a!. campaign "is liti\v !i: '1 !• A: li'.i . i!-:?!n;: up In-i v • « : it 1"» II.Il' ail .i'.iv i»a;'ct i luna tu within !.«•:. y a 'tilliiry rai'.'M- < i' .'! ; : . i. I il was a-.-i sr. •<i ' .a l!i.■::: r-cape hatch v.-a- air ady un.li-' rrnun-l lire as well as a< rial humbard :iu-nl. Starci'llnna lies >i\ milt's MHith-.siiulliwi's' ni Alila/.zn and lit milt's west of Mi'ssina. The (ii'nii:iiis uiro in flight. All indications arc that the na/.is hav(. piilli-il nut rvi-n llifeir (li-la>ittK parlies and left Italian unils to Ian- tin- climactic Hri tisli and Ami-rii-an push. Tilt- I- S seventh army and the British t uliili urin.v riircd forwnrd iv rapidly .1. bl.>v.is-ti|« 1 .(K and liniininliinii ..n. e pet nutted, r'n- t-autpni(!n i! vva- Inj than -l\ V.ccii '1(1 Tin.- Hi-i* iirt-ii Tanrmina. ►'i. tt'H »• ■ : .aid i • ..(I junction •I1 t!i\- i■ -t L'l! iiiiltj. by n>ad from Mi- l a-; j":i >nr. eight mil-.- inland: urd th« town KaUti (Admittiim tlint fiiivw arc luittinu S.« ly. v IV.' 11 .idi<* de clared 1 •: * - .1 -i .-. .11 .1 broadcast n-c.•. div. y NI! * :i; the Mi'ssina .1: .1 it • ..11 in li mi firm v il (It •!.. • ml "A mi" Anipr ic. 'i ;.:t« mp:- ' the lorrying U° • 1 • n 1Kivc) TEN MEN ESCAPE RICHMOND PRISON •: . ah . Aim. 10—(AP)—Ten i'n Meek loiibuij; ■ • , t i : ii., Hirhni md !i'\ 1 : i nr..i ii< I'r liist !'• i . < )>»M! Pitts : >it. y. *1 i- i i (I. sowed • : m;iKe their i . !' •• mi' vva.s nut '■ \ i :< n ■ itii . thiit morn »K Ail .1 i ml; short term*. Many Gifts To Beat Axis \Vj>- : . T.'.'.l ■•:. All-. It;. ( AD— Tin- <•! v..ii inloiiiiution U !•••! '« i t ••!.»>• t' '■ ml! - i 'f sill • It i • >;I ii 11 ■ i (iniir.- tu dug ' I • 1 ■ ; t; ;ntn W.ishlllU I 'lis ii: \u»lis to 111 iiiiti..ti.11- sent to I'm i.! til i; ■ »\ tit in' the Trent I •• t:t. < I'.V I s.ud. hilVO iuducied ...in'. iliiltVi iiinbul I'i. iK -. I'iilt*.'. ty|ie\vr'i h i" rii;. i .ny • i i n I.. '• . 111. ;'i|(l Itvtli anil Wi dilini; . mn-. <'t i i • | .rl.imi -> ha\ e yielded Wiitchrs. Iiells. I*ctnwt lives v.. 'i.- iiiv.l V I isl.y. ruh Iht, engine pumps. a'li1ftcnittir>« l> .hi . .. i tia. ,|i. i'il.ils. ci>m«. t..i | >. in I; 11 - Mill ir.ritir.il ri|iiip ineiit. I'.i li riintii!<ut'i'ii <H"t count* | run Will i 'till- Will tasrs) hMV* ! ■! ,!rfl n< .• \ Si. 'xlli.OIIO \\ uh iit (liv ul i .i Kl.*> I .ttlKIIIK llt'lll <ill(i CCIll tu SL'i.IMM). "Thcv ci>ii-tUtile in exlninr riitwry «l<«iinicnliili(iit .it patriot ■ i n anil love ol the country," <»\VI s.itfl hi the Kilt-. "They Kive pun rd in and .iff oiililUJ mu in pour m 1 i*itii almoxt every vtllsice. tmvn ;ind c'ty from per • •lis hi r\ei> wall; nf 111c. Soina 1.1 •1 ruhhlcd i'il m i Hi- of p.ipet. ! IPI' VI ' 1111 'I nil di.t lllctiV'C pp;* > : :■( . • A'
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