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H^ni^rson Daily Hfspafrit THIR1IEJ. H YEAR leased wikb hekvicb or . WIKB HEKVICB or the ASSOCIATED VHKHH. HENDERSON, N. C., T UESDA Y AFTERN0ON, AUGUST 31, 11)13 PUULJSHKD EVKKY AFTKKNUUN EXCKi'T SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY RAF Heavy Bombers Raid Rhineland; Fortresses Flit Military Targets In Italy Heavy and Concentrated Attack Mace on Germany Last Night Is Continued With Daylight Raids London, Auk. -'51—(AI *) —' RAF heavy bombers pounded home a heavy, concent rated at tack on the German ithineland last night and mighty fleets of heavy and medium bombers roared across to the continent today to bring the fourth year of the war to a thunderous close. The war-busy industrial cities of Muenchen - (Madbach and Rheydt were hammered l>y the RAF bombers last night, a communique announced, while Mosquito bombers raided Duis burg at the same time, ending a two-day lull in the aerial of fensive. Twenty-eight bomb ers were lost. A virtual unbroken procession rf raiders began streaming across the coast at daybreak close on the heels of the massive RAF sweep against the sprawling Ithineland industrial area. German broadcasts reported 24 raiders shot down and said that sev - eral towns had been especially hard hit. "The population suffered heavy losses and considerable damage was caused to churches, schools, hospi tals, residences and public build ings." the Germans asserted. Allied daylight raiders followed lip this attack by swarming across the Channel shortly after dawn in the direction of Calais to c intinuc the assaults upon western Europe. HOPE FOR TURKEYS IS GIVEN TAR HEELS Iialcigh, Aug. 31—(AP)—It's going to be a tight squcc/c, but m.-ybc you'll bet those turkey diners this Thanksgiving or Christmas after all. A federal-state market bulletin in dicated today the yield would be 5 per cent less than last season, with about 235,110(1 turkeys raised in the st: to. I*'or the nation, the number will be about the same as last sea sos, wilh S3.nri9.OOII birds or three per cest less than the record crop of 1040. bill 22 per cent above the 193ft— 1935-39 average. The armed forces, of course, will get them first. PLEASURE DRIVING BAN OFF IN EAST Washington, Aug. 31.— (AIM—The Office of Price Administration last night lifted the ban on Northeastern pleasure driving effective Tuesday midnight but placed niotori.-ts on their honor tu avoid non-essential driving. The ban has been in effect since May 20. Leaf Selling Day Shortened Wilson, Aug. 31.—(AP)—The mar keting committee of lilt" U. S. To b cto Association in a meeting here last night voted to nil the tobaeeo sale (l.iv on tlie Eastern North Caro lina and South Carolina districts from live In three and one-halt hours, beginning Sept. 2. • This will be for a live-week period. The curtailed hours also will go into effect for a four-week period on the Middle . nd Old Tobacco Bells, beginning on the opening days of the bel t.s. K. I!. Patterson of Danville, Va.. committee chairman, said that thi. action was taken because of the labor shortage in tobacco processing plants. The pi nts are unable to clear to bacco sold on one day by the time for opening of sales the next day. Patterson said. Sales will run from 9:30 A. M. to 1 P. M. each day. Patterson sad. In the resolution setting up the new hours, the marketing eouiiiiit.ee also specified that no pile of tobacco is to exceed 300 pounds in weight and tli t all buying interests a,e re quested to telegraph their buyers im mediately not to buy more than I. 260 pounds of tobacco during a three and one-hall hour selling period. Unless this rate is observed (the requested rate is 300 pounds per hour, us specified by OPA) by all buying interests "including the lend lease (Government) buyers." t he committee said "it must lie success fid." Patterson said, when : sked what would happen it at the end of the five-week period the labor situation was not improved, that the curtailed hours probably would then lie con tinued. This probably would lengthen the season on the New Bright Belt, which usually closes about Thanksgiving, to around Christmas. Downs First Zero FOOTBALL STAR from Ann Arbor, Mich., Lt. Tommy Harmon shot down his firs I Jap plane during a 1-1 111 U. S. Air I-'orce raid on Hong Kong. On the homeward tliRht the Liberators were attacked by 20 Zeros. They downed nine Jap planes. One ol them was credited to Harmon. (International) U. S. Planes Raid Wewak 114 Ions of Bombs Dropped on Jap Base and at Least 37 Planes Are Shot Down Allied Headquarters in Oh* Southwest 1'arific. Aim. 31.— (AIM—l.ilicrators and l.ightn iliBs. in a Ill-ton bombing at tack on Wewak. New (iuiiiea, liave adde<l at least Japanese planes, and possibly l!i. to the more than .'Slid destroyed there sinee inid-Aufiitst. This new air victory, scored Sun iay. w;i- rc|>ortrd today by General i)ouglas MaeArtluu's headquarters n a cnmimmi(pic which also disclos ed that allied hoops hold strong •idge positions ahovc as well as be ow the airdrome at Salamaua, ItaO mlos below Wewak. At Wewak. where the nt-'iy has sent in reinforcements to repi;- e osses which have been mounting nice Anvils! 1". 'hi- Liberators wip d out at lea I twelve planes on the pound while the Lightniuus. in fttri >us battles with (id Zeros, downed 2'.t or certain, twelve probably, and tamaged at least 17 others. "Our losses were light." the coin minitiue said. Previous communi(|tics on the and lighting at Salamaua have been [•oncerned mainly with action below I he airdrome where American and Australian amnio forces have edged !o the southwestern end • >! the air strip. lUil today's comintaii<i;te told nl allied forces tcpulsing Japanese counter attacks Satnrdav night and Niil.v Sunday on Kila ridge. Kila is i .-mall town ubuce the iiirdrome and slightly west of Salamaua. Along a ncai by ridge, which runs southward, allied troops threw back Ihe Japanese and killed at least 4(1 if the enemy, a spokesman said. The Wewak raiders, in addition to destroying enemy planes, started ex plosions and I ires among ammunition and luel dumps. Not a Lightning fighter was I ist in tin- series of bril liant dogfights. IT'LL STILL BE HEMP UNTIL NOVEMBER 23 Raleigh. Aug. 31—(AP)—The t«»wn of llemp will keep its 11 me— ;il least until the State supreme court hoars iin appeal ea.-e on November 23. Plantiffs. those who object to chiii.cmR the n.inte to Robbing, filed ;i petition in»tlit* high court today Olid Chief .Justice \V. P. St cy issued an order eon'iiiuing the injunction against the defendants, thus prohib iting them from changing the name. The controversy started several months ,iuo when petit miners obtain ed from the municipal hoard of con trol auth uily to eh nge the name in honor of Karl Robbitis. A group of citizens obtained a restraining order which was overruled in superior court and the plaiitiffs appealed. WEATHER FOH NORTH CAROLINA. Slichlb warmer this after noon. Continued mild tonight and Wednesday forenoon. Airfield North of Rome Heavily Bombed; Screen of Enemy Fighters Met in Raid Near Naples Allied Headquarters in North Africa, Aug. ol—(Al*)—Fly ing Fortresses heavily bombed Yiterljo airfield north of Home yesterday while medium liomb ers fought through the heaviest screen of enemy fighters en countered recently to hlast rail targets near Naples. Seventeen enemy planes were knocked down as Marauders bored through to hammer rail way yards at A versa, north of Naples, allied headquarters an nounced today. j Formations ol Mitchells with ' Lightning cseort and K.\F Wcl 1 i lie ton bomliers staged a clay and night assault <m freight yards at C'ivita Vechia, north west of Koine. Other medium, light and fighter bombers raided r.ulway objectives ill southern It.ily during the f,ay and lighter-bombers struck at communi cations in Sardiuui. In all, 21 enemy planes were downed, with l."» allied aircratt re ported missing. The Fortre-.se.-. meeting compara-' lively light opposition, strewed bombs throughout di.~per.sal areas at , tile strategic V.terbo airdrome 40 i miles abo\e Koine, leaving hangars I and other buildings in (lames. They , shot down two enemy planes. Mrs. Behrens j Offers To Tell ! Detroit, Auk- 31.—(Al')—The 1> t.oit News said today thai Airs. 1 luicsu Itdii'cns, oiu* hi* lour 11)is held here on charges of violating iIil espionage act, has offered to ten "liiany things tin; government ought to know" in exchange lor her fre< doin. The newspaper said that in the presence ol matrons and John S. lliiRa.-.. special agent in charge of Hie Detroit of I ice <■! the I'KI, Mr. lie hrens declared: "I don't want to go to court. I don't want to testily. iJut 1 do know a lot ol important things, and 1 will tell them ii 1 can be as sured ol my Ircedom." LOYAL TAR HEELS SEND A DONATION Ualeigh, Aug. 31.—(AP)—A <iu:n-i tel <>l North Carolinians now I living >ti Porthsinouth, V;i., came to« I hi' tinancial aid of their home j-i.'i" j today. They sent Governor J. M. j Brought on a dolhir. The Chicl Kxccutive, in Washing- I ton last week, ImiihI he (lid not hn\f enough money to Iniy a tr. in ticket back ti» Ualeigh. lie touched Lieute nant Governor It. L. Harris for $21) and :i few minutes later Harris lost his pocket hook. The delegation got back home alright, though. So the mails brought the gnvei nor the frogskin today. The writer, who gave her name as Miss Dons bumrcll, wrote that "1 knew the fin ancial conditions in North Carolina were had. but 1 didn't know they were that bad." It happens that the State has a $3(),«(lO,("iO surplus. WELDING CONTEST IS BLOODY AFFAIR liiehnmnd. C.ilil., Auk. 31.—(Al') —The champi >11 women welder.- «>1 the Richmond and Oakland, Calif., shipyards have been matched in a contest—and blood will flow freely. II Richmond'.- representative, Aiiss CJora Lee Clonl<. 'JO. loses, her co workers will dona'c 11 pints of blood to the Wed C'ros- blood banks. Oakland suppo iers will Hive 100 pints if their candidate. Mrs. Edna Slocum. loses. Ascends Throne CROWN PRINCE SIMEON, C, ascends the throne of Bulgaria as King Simeon II, succeeding his fattier. King Boris III, 49, who died under mysterious circumstances. Ths control of the country was placed in the hands of a council which will name a Regent to act for the young ruler. (International) Strikes Break Out in Denmark German Occupation Authorities Crush Military Revolt, Hold King Prisoner Stockholm. Auff. 31—(AIM — Itcporls already received here from Denmark indicated today at least 2,0011 persons were kill ed or woundrd in I'ikht iiik which heean hclore dawn Sunday be tween I)ani>li soldiers, sailors and civilians and the German oc cupation army. Stockholm, Auk. •( I — (AI*)— Harassed German oci'U|iation au thorities in Denmark. having crushed the last vestiges of a military revolt after two days <>f violent fighting, were faced to day with a new threat as a se ries of general strkes against their dictatorship broke out in nine eities. With King Christian a prisoner n Sorgentri castle, most of the gov •eniucnt members jailed or under iiou.-e arrest anil scores of other limittinent Danes in prison. General run llennecken moved tu tighten Ihe German military grip ovei the country by rounding up all Danish army and navy officers. \"> ■»» llcnnecken rushed troop.-; to ariM vvliet'e strikes were reported paralyzant; e\ ery type of buMiic.-s. Kxtr; • d.nary efforts were taken to pre\ <!!' spread of the strikes to other industrial centers. The strike- indicated Ihe Danes were i.n -owed l>y threats of dras tic pen...th including death, tinder Ihe ma ' .il la'.v decree instituted before d aii Stnday when von llen tieel;en stripped the government of Premier K c Scavenius of all power and sen? i na/i captain to tell King Christian. "You are my prisoner." With "tie sovereign and Ihe gov ernment, which resigned within .1 few hour:-, apparently |n»werle-.-. Danish <•'./ens living in Stockholm expressed belief that political lead ers niilside Denmark would lorm •< free Dairsh gvoernment in 1.oiuIom and ally it lorinully with the United Nations. Free !»..nish leaders headed by t'hri Int. Moeller have been I in lioning l.ondon. but until low had not aathorily to exercise - ernmenta! powers. State Cars Reduce Travels By Over Four Million Miles In the Sir Walter llotcl. D;ihy Dtspiitm Bureau, By 1,VNN NISBET. Raleigh. Auk. 31 Incomplete re I port mi mHence at public expense j driven by 1.177 ems for GO State departments, bureau and inxtitii i lions, indicates a reduction in such trsiv« I "f more titan four million 1 miles for the first sis months of this year as compared with travel ( foi the first half of 1(1 II. j W. H. Rogers. Jr.. ns-islnnt com | missioner <>f motor vehicles, who I was designated early this year by I Governor Broughlon as Stale mile Iage administrator. compiled the fig tires from reports filed by the va rious State agencies. There are sev cniI m nl miiirsicins from the list. i\l noticeable for its absence is ii ri*|" i < ivin the governor's of fice. I: -• ; - siiicl lie had consider able (l.'i.i ;Vy in Rett ni; !«•(>• >rt filed, (i'-r i. Hy speaking, regular depart m( it were more OM'pct-.ilivc than ins' -Ititiov.s. Lack of informa tion fnirv tl"' University of North Caroli .1 ml Statu hospital at Mor gnntrn s 'most as noticeable as cntin of lh<' governor's oflieo . ' tabulation. C'ompi' ' !s made on .1 ijiiarlerly bast-; .ind ■ few agencies reported I for cm- f;ii;ivter and not for the I other, maki; K accurate comparison (Continued on Page Four) Soviet Army Smashes On Beyond Taganrog In Unchecked Drive Churchill Declares Quebec Conference Dealt With Japan Frescnce of Russia Would Have Been an Embarrassment, He Points Out Quebec. Auk. :u — (AIM — Prime .Minster Wiiistini Church ill said in an address today thai the recent conference hero u as concerned principally with "in tlaming" the war against Japan, with w hum ICussia is at peace, and that therefore it would have been an eniharrassmcut to the Soviet tllion to have lieen represented. The British prime ministoi .iiii. however, thai it was li<s.-.m • l.old a United Nations coiiforor.io at which tile Soviet would be lepre sented. Such a unity ot decision ; ni >ng the three it opponents n." 11it — lc'iilu tyrranv would be Ki'e. :lv de .siraOle,. in .said. Churchill said he did not blame Itussia lor any criticism it had leveled at its allies lor not bavin:; opened a second trout 011 the 1 online ut. He said lhal whenever a sec ond front was opened on the continent it would he done only when there was every chance of military success and would not be swayed b.v political consid erations. Churchill said lie was looking lor ward to the opening ot a third iront, presumably relet rin;: to Japan. Italy, lie .said, was paying a "tor- ( rible penalty" for having ijecn .111--; led i>y thi- (ieriniins. The terrilie aerial attack again-t ; Geri'.any, Churchill said, v.ould ii"t have been po.-sible without tiie mag nificent .-land ot the liu.-Mans against Hitler's forces. No country. In- declared, ever had 1 withstood .-iieh a devastating attack as that 1111-'• .\ ti at the llus.sia'i I . j The late nf King lions ot lUll- | garia, he pointed mil, might ccrve as a warning to oilier ruler.-, that "the wage- of .-in is death." At present. Churchill pointed out. Britain's p: incited activity against .Japan nr.-I In ot neces.-ity centered, in India. 1 lie c\pi '-.-ed extreme contidence' in Vice Admiral Lord Louis M'lint-j batten, tie new allied coiniii:.ud< in ehiel in tiiat theatre. DEMANDS FOR GAS TO EXCEED SUPPLY Washinuton. Alls. —(AIM s. p- ! lemhci dun ;iikI (or nasoliiu tary ,is uI'll as en iljan—m ; mii live | ■ i ccnl above Scptemlx! 1*ML'. and i n' further into slocks wh.rh .;i iciidy have registered an abnormal -casoi.al decline. 11 to bureau Hi mines (■•recast today. I Total demand fur motor liiel next ! an nlli \va.- c.tiniaU'd at 5 l,.">tHl,ii(iii I bin t'l alifl the • >t rc.ui estimated tin* would cut I.ViHi.iiiin barrels oil m ; vcntorics oi lini-hod slock- ,s y{. j linerv production -lips to 5<ViiHi.iuiO I | bar els compared with an est a:a»id !> I .^IMI.IIIHI 111 AllKllst. Reported Arrested A DISPATCH to (lie Swiss Gazelle tie Lausanne said that Albeit Le brun, 72, former President of the French Republic, has been arrested by members of the German Ge stapo, one of whom carricd a niachine-Ktm. The report declared that Lcbrun "in eircct" was kid napped. (International) Two Trainmen Hurt In Crash (■okMioro, Auk. I"— lAI')—Ail engineer und a fireman wan hurt serioa.s|y and score >r aiore pas .-e iters received Mipe:: . al injuries •iboiit a a. m. today when the loco motive of Alla-ti' (.'•>a»-. I .til' train No. II cr xhed into the war <>t on empty Pullman train a halt' mile south of FYeniont. Three ol the injured were i>. •..«'nt !n u- il l dismissed attei rece:\ . ^ ;r.' it:ne>t lor super; .i-...| .-i.tur-e- a" .. ! teat hospital, fit id Mayoi i > I!. Til. lingtoii. The eni; necr and t re liien of t ie locomotive j. .Hi A the emotv train were taken either to IStu'ky Mount or \\':!.- >n tor treat ment. T.irlinfitiiu aid. AMMONIA IM»i:s IT Uo,se. Idaha, Ana. III.—( \P)—A •k : ; . ci 'led under the u > >d <>: Shir ley II mi lt's car. He drove to the state : li ;i:id game dep r 1 in e n t. K:tipl".vce.- Ilii'rc wo pii'I interested. Next -! •!> was the I.re department. Firemen, jitter a fire CNtillgilishcr (,i led to dislodge the kitty, lound a solution. Am noma did it. Notice To Subscribers New Subscription Rates EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 4, 1943 Jlecaii.-o of Ilu* rapid advance in the co-t of newsprint paper and other materials that K" into tin making of a newspaper, TllE I»All.Y Dispatch feels compelled at this time 1o increase subscription rates to help take care of some of the extra costs of production. NEW RATES ARE AS FOLLOWS: By M.iil lly C;ir:-ier 1 YEAH Sf'.IMI $7.(10 <> months 3.H0 .'{.riii » MONTHS 1.50 1.73 Weekly i•>* ciirricr only .... 2(W l'or Copy iSI'KCIAIj ATTKNTION—'Those desiring to do so may renew their present Ktibscriptioiis or subscribe to TllE Daily Dispatch at the old rates for any period up to one year between now and September 1. Slaily DtepatH? All Russia Celebrates Victory at Taganrog; Stalin Says Rostov Area Cleared of Nazis l.ondon. Auk. SI — (AD—The Novum army captured I lie town <•1 ^ i'lnyu, la milt's cast of Smo lensk. in an ituporiam advance toward the northern bastion of the German line in Russia, a Moscow broadcast said today. \ clnya is miles west of S|ias IJcineiisk. the lasi tow n re ported captured on the main line railroad runsiiiiK from Latvia eastward through Smolensk and into central Itussia. Moscow. Auk. :'>i — (AT) — Tin- Russian army is smashing unchecked through Geinian de fenses and is now more than hallway to .Mariupol l'rom fal len Taganrog, southern anchor of tin- long German line, dis patches from tlie front reported today. All Russia was celebrating thi' I all of tlie citv, gateway to the Caucasian oil fields, and the cannon of Moscow boomed out a 121 gun salute to the Red army at itie orders of Marshal Josef Stalin, who announced thul the ilriv. hi:.» i u ,u\ d the Na>.i aii.i,. fr« ... "lu etiiire prov ince o." iio.-tov. Tilt cit> on the northern coast of tlie Sea ol A/.ov was captured by cavalry and tank units of the southern iJussian army eom in.iiided by ( oionel General Tol hukhili. i 111ti11')i.<11• ty tat.- Uussians an nounced tii.it 1") it ip.ilnlcd places haci boon captured in this ureal vic tory wnieii til! I'.iti':It'll '1ll' whole ueriunn rigid i.u.g and proclaimed the entire Kwstov area had mow been liberated in mi the nazi in\ .Kiel's. 'lie c: 1J »t 111*- ot I ..ganrog I'll lowed ilu tiiim general |» ittern as the pin« I'OI IIU'. i ' 1 It'llt V.!:.fll resulted 111 the lull "1 the (>t:ii.ail bastions ot Orel .iiui K ..11 u->\ earlier this sum mer. Tlif S .let eiiiiiniiinU|i:e di.s closcti tii.it the lied army divisions had iaunclicd a drive lrotu a point 4u i).:los iii i ;ir..i1 of Taganrog, to ai.other | ..lit null's west of the eily. while other lias.-ian torces closer in the t ;.-t. The eon.ii: inline said the Ger mans salleied heavy losses in men and equipment in the ensuing bat tle. German In tadcasts dismissed the dele.it a- a • • tiate-iic withdrawal" — tie : .inn- to.: < eii '.u describe the I all "i Ki.arki . • nil .aid military installations had been distroyed in tlio 'ace ot the liii-.-.an advance. T.isani'is i t:.e \th major Ger n.a flrotigliold to tall to the Hus ,-ian ... . its 'mi' '.hey tinned the abortive German push which started July a ill ti e -eiieial .-ector into a Hi'd ariey oltensive. Ii ; :i (■' loin:i> ranuhile which ore pushing un from Kharkov ap pa.ei.tlj v.ere : < ot.ng st.lt German resistance. Act.on on other fronts touiai tiie Soviet drive on llryansk, important rail junction and (ierinan basi' 'JoiI : ile.- southwest ot Moscow, Hailing nv i.i•• i". in \\:th lite Kus siatt romit a' npie announcing gains >! s ■. 13 in.'.i and the capture ot ! r>ti villages. FCC Charged WithObtaining Deferments \V.,. ington. Aug. 31—(AP)—The it'dt I i ' i m ':i;«;.' m.- r >:iilnission w .i.- licensed by .in investigator for the l'"x committer today ol obtain ing dr.lit ciflci M i nt - tor .1 h.gli |HT rentage "I employees 011 tlie FCC j payroll.-- lc.-s than 3o days. The invcstig.it' <r. I toy (isborn. told j tin* C"iv.:i Her created hv the House 1 In investigate the commission, that ''leli i mi t had been obtained for 27 | employee.- within to days of their employment iittd for an additional 5» within 30 day* of the time tliey wtve entered on tht. FCC* payroll. M.'iiy of the group, Osl>oni testi lied at .1 public hearing, were clas sified 1 A lit the time of their cm 1 ploymcni av.d lew. iie udded, had <1 lal'ticat- »ns justifying their occu l pat totiiil deferment. Previously FCC Chairman .fames Ij. Hv said the committee had "care fully selected" the cases of defer ment ' H a m".-t unfair effort to im pugn the entire draft policy of the comin&ion. The facts are that each of the-p men was fully qualified for -thp }nb." Fly sa.d in a ftatement,
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