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3tettiKt0Ott Bally Htspafch THIRTIETH YEAR l®ASBd Wilt id hekvicb of this associated phbss. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943 PUBLISHED KVKKY AKTKKNOON KXCKl'T SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Allies Gain Bridgehead In Iialv t State Road Program Envisioned Governor Broughton Outlines Road Building at Record Rate; May Start Before Peace Raleigh. Sept. 3—<AP)—The largest highway expansion in the state's history was envi sioned today by Governor Broughton, who said the pro gram might start before the war's end. The S35.000.000 in State fuiuls alniie could make the program the largest sine;- the S50.000.000 appropriation many years ago that marked the real beginning ' of the state's primary road system. In addition, about SI 1.000, 000 in tederal funds have been earmarked for North Carolina, leaving only a few million less than the record. The federal government has indicated that it intends to continue its road build ing policy. As the war demands ease, as materials mul labor become avail able, the now road progranTcould bo started, tile governor said, adding that some materials already were becoming available tor essential ci vilian use. The governor made the announce ment to the Slate highway and public works commission, which had been advised that the road .system was badly in reed of repairs. Bridges are needed, and every part ol the state, he said, needs new construction. Since America enter ed the war. materials have not been available to the roads in sufficient quantity to keep them in good re pair. The governor segaT; fed that the commission immediately start mak ing plans, surveys and generally to get into position to start its rebuild ing "within a 30-dny period" after materials and labor become avail able. One-Third Of Jap Ships SentT oBottom Washington, Sept. 3_(AP)—Sec retary Knux announced today that one- third <»r Japan's total shipping, approximately 2.50(1,000 tons, has been destroyed. The Navy chief declared this de struction of one of Japan's most vital resources was chiefly accomplished by American submarines, although ail United Nations sea and air forces have participated in the sinkings. Knox agreed with a questioner at his press conference that the ene my's loss of cargo tonnage was im (Conlinucd on Page Five) Jap Planes Knocked Out % Allied Airmen Encounter No Japanese Resistance in Widespread Raids Over Salamaua Sector Allied Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific. Sept. 3—(AIM —The allied campaign for north eastern New Guinea appears, for (lie moment at least, to have knocked out the Japanese air forec from besieged Salamaua all the 550 miles to the Dutch New (iuinea border. In earlier stages of the allied drive on Salamaua. Japanese plar.es raided forward mountain positions, ranged far to strike across the Owen Stanley mountains to I'ort Moresby and down the coast from Salamaua in the region of Buna. Today's allied communique, re porting the wiping out "t Japanese army headquarters, warehouse;, fuel and ammurition stores in and around Madang. said the raiding Liberators and Mitchells found only one ground ed enemy plane among targets for their more than 2<H> tons of bombs. Escorting Lightnings did not en counter an interceptor. The Salamaua airdrome, now within rifle range of allied junRle lighters, is unserviceable to the cn (Continued on Paga Five) THE INVASION IS ON! ¥ ' Leap Stirs No Comment Official Washington Takes Invasion News N Without Excitement; Move Was Expected Washington. Scpl. 3.—(AIM— I Allied chiefs liavc worked out j their war destiny so far in ad vance that the invasion ol' the Italian mainland searely stirred a ripple in official Washington— which at the moment includes l'rime Minister Churchill. Th:it whs the only lo^*it*:iI conclu sion to be rlvnwn from the reactions of highly placed authorities when the news of the leap, across the Sicilian straits was made known early this morning. It would have been a minor mir acle if some top ranking officials here were unaware of the allied time table calling for the drive across the Sicilian straits to Italy proper. But none either would say they knew about it, or express any comment. The situation today in Washington is this: Let's wait until the Chief gives the word. The presence of Prime Minister Churchill at the White House wa double reason for the officii!I silence. The stress at the moment is on the war in the P: cific, with the impli cation that immediate plans for Eu rope already have been periccted. U. S. leaders may have been so especially silent because the leap into Italy was primarily a British affair, cgincered by the fabled eighth i.i iny of General Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery. Whether Mr. Churchill would have anything to say about i! later in the day was problematical. II Mr. Churchill h s anything to say. it would lie a good opportunity' : for him to remind the axis that he I promised several months ago great action before the leaves of autumn fait. NAZIS C'APTWBD Clayton. N. Y.. Sept. 3.—(AP)— Three men identified as the three remaining escaped ficrinan war pri ! soners from Kurt Henry. Kingston, | Ont., were captured here by an iin ! migration border patrolman. ! heather Foil NORTH CAROLINA Continued warm this after noon. tonieM and Saturday fore noon. Scattered thundershow ers north and west portions this I afternoon. __ Papal Envoy To America London, Sept. 3—(AP)—Kn rico Galta/zi. governor of Vati can City, left Lisbon by clipper Wednesday night fur the United States, .1 I tenter.-, dispatch re ported today. The purpose of his visit \\a> not disclosed, Heu ters sai<t. but there was spec ulation heir oil the possibility that it wa;; eoniieclcd with ne gotiation* to make Home an open city. A Swiss Telegraph Agency di patch from Vatican City said the possibility was not excluded that CJaleazzi was the bearer of a personal message from Pope Pius Xll to Prc.-ident Hoosevelt. U.S. Planes Raid France Paris Reported Bombed During Heavy Attacks in Early Morning; RAF Makes Night Raids London. Sep.. —(AP)—While allied invasion forces stormed on In the Kalian mainland, great fleets of ("nitt'd Stales heavy anil medium bombers laid down a strong early morning bomb barrage on northern Prance to day. it was announced. The preliminary American an nouncement of tl morning's raid did not specify tin1 targets, but a Home broadcast earlier said Pari> has bcci bombed. In stin-darkeuinj: swarms. Flying Forlre.-si's and it Marauders y wi pt across the channel under cov er >f -wilt-striking 'Iliundcrbolls. Londoners got a \ ii w of part of the returning formations. approxi mately 1 r»0 Fortress '- flying north ward over th(, city persons in tin- streets slopped . il cheered. The Paris radio said in a broad ens! lieaid by the A "ciated Press that an "extensive raid" was made on the Paris region, addm! that the i main target was the left bank ot j the Seine. The dayVght attack fo!!.iwed night | blow- by the HAF acain-t axis air I fields and other targets in northern France and the I,ow C • nitric*. An j air ministry communique said other j aircraft laid mines in enemy waters I during the night. Reds Hurl Nazis Back Main German Rail Line Between Central and Southern Sectors Cut 150 Miles From Kiev l.oiulon. Sept. 3—(AP>—Ttir Germans reeled back today .ileum a COO-mile front under stassrr iui: Russian lilims that cut the main nazi rail link between the eentral and southern see tors 150 miles from Kiev, erashed into the Smolensk defense perimeter for a sain of six miles and shat tered strong enemy positions in a new drive into the northern Donets hasin. Five Kid iiiics- wore encaged in the Soviet offensive. wh ell threatened the entire German bat tle line !• the eastern front. The speed nl the Itussion advance which ;■ 11• flv has cracked the ene my's It'll nva-ion lines, indicated that the Germans were retreating along the whole southern fr»nt an apparent attempt to get bchni 1 their I)ii e]»er river defense system. Russian 2i" ernU were givinfi theni no rest. throwing immense force of men d motorized equipment into the offensive. Capture "I the I'kniine stro uh !d of Sumy. !»n miles northwest of Kharkov. i>y Cleneral Nikolai Y.i tutin's C'1 • and was announce i pe sonally l>v M i -lial Stalin in an ol der of tilt* flay yesterday, vvh . communique told of the storming of K role vets and Yampol f»n the i-ii uorlant B'van-k-Kiev railway hint ing the fiitho and central li'ii!. Wasli naf • Sept. 3 f Al*> Fe male fi:: "e inalte a bii; rrlfeicee from tin". You'll have to pti! on your si e- to look at them bc cause— The v ' .iipower enmmiss ha just urn!' eil figures which need explaining. Take a look: Bctwre ' and thi« ti'iie ne\t Slimmer more .vo • en mn.-t go in!" j'1!'-. including the armed service and non-fann ,iol> . W.MC sa> HMI.000 WoiiiC'i arc in the ar ''rl •ice< now. The • imber must el ;nb to 300,000 by nest sum (Continucd on Page Three) Female RAF Raids Japs In Burma New I»elhi. Sept. 3—(AP)— British lighter piano, attacking enemy communications over a wide area ol western Burma, de stroyed • u* d.imaged 13 three-ton truck.-- yesterday on the highway from Taungap to Promc and six locomotives and two trains be tween Toungoo and Yametliin. it Wiis announced today. A sawmill was set ablaze and two taetories damaged by other lighter.-. a communique said. In the Aiakan district a !"r mation of Avengers dive-bomb ed the town of I'aletwa. scoring direct hits i>n two large build ings and starting fires. Pacific War Gains Speed Four-Pronged Offensive Believed in Prospect; Importance Attached To Raid on Marcus Washington. Sept. I!.— (AIM — A promise of devastating naval and aerial blows on the Japanese homeland indicated today that the Tinted Stales fleet, with its crowing armada of carrier-borne planes, is preparing swiftly to join in a four-pronged offensive in Asia and the Pacific this fall. The Si ptci.ibor I r <1 on Marcus ■ sland. <>• 'y 1.21X1 miles from Tokyo. .,,'ited at iigh'\ operations to come, j and "his portent has now boon trans "ated into j iain words by Vice Ad " - j i-.il John S. McCain, deputy chief of naval oper tions for air. "The attack on Marcus is only a ( token," ne s id in a radio broadcast : hist night. "Such blows will increase ' in tempo, in power and in fury until (in 11 \ for .lap.in n continuous at tack we lay v.aslr in blood and pshe 1 c hon e islands of tlii treacherous brutal and sa\ age people." AliCain's emphasis on the inipn lance of the M .reus raid, details oi nhicii have not yet been released b\ the Navy, wa- but the latest of . number of official disclosures wbicl began with a' nounceinents at (Jue j !><■(• and which, tiiken together, sug gc 1 canip igns against the Japaiavi j from four directions: ' 1. North Pacific, by American a: c (Continue.! on rage Five) Eighth Army Troops Battle On Mainland Of Caiahrian Coast First of Invaders Set Foot on Italian Coast At 4:30 a. m.; General Eisenhower in Command Of Historic Operations; American Warplanes And Warships Support British-Canadian Units Xl'\v York, Sept. •»—(AT)—Tin* British radio, quoting a report from the United Nations radio at Algiers, said British and Canadian troops "have established a bridgehead on the Caiahrian coast" in Italy. The broadcast was recorded by CBS. Allied Headquarters in North Africa. Sept. :»—(AP) — (2:15, S:!"j a. in. KW'I'I—British and Canadian troops, practiced veterans of General .Montgomery's eighth army, made landings in southern Italy today in the first of several expected invasions of Hitler's Europe. Ten hours after tlie.v had swarmed across Messina Strait from Sicily in small hoats they were battling on the toe of Italy to establish a bridgehead. Thus once again Adolf Hitler's legions, which had boasted they held the continent secure, were being engaged 011 the European maiib«;ul. The first of the invaders. British and Canadian, set foot on the Calabriau coast opposite eastern Sicily a'. 1:-!(» m. (10::*»<> p. m. Thursday, EWT). Invasion Bulletins London. Sept. :t.—(Al')—Gcr )":|ii broadc >t- indicated today fiat the allied threes lauding on the Italian ma!:.land had occu pied both Seilla and Heggio Cala bria. Both the. (. cities re on '.lu ll li;m we-1 coils!. direclly acr the Straight from Messina. The German international i- - forma'.ion bureau, in a broadcast recorded by the Associated I'ress, paid the allies invasion lorces had penetrated ,.s far as Seilla ;>:i the roast road. It said another lorec. led by many tank-, had penetrated eastward lio n Keggio Calabria. l.mdon. Sept. 3.—(AP)—Arri | v.*11 in London of Gener 1 lie ry H. Arnold, chief oi the U. S. Army air forces, a few ho.us be fore allied ".loops landed on *!ie Italian mainland, tod.iy heigh tened speculation that lie was here to effect a further coordi n. tion ol' ground and a:r lorces lor an anticipated invasion ol the continent from 'lie llrilish Isles. London, Sept. 3.— (AP)—The London Star speculated txi.iy that the U. S. seventh .1 : y. • >! mentioned in the eomnv.iniqiie on tile Italian inva.-ion. had bee ". -Mailed a very imp »■ task." In an article in the St u\ (ic e ral Sir Hobert Gordon-Kinlay ,-on said. "We can be quite sure that the seventh U. S ... ny i destined by General K enhower to land somewhere 11 Italy s .011. but it is impossibe yet to say where. The seventh army will have been assigned very im portant task." '"Messina is just the beg'li ning." an Kvening St.indard ed: toria! said. "It is not likely th t allied strategy lore ees onh a landing at the toe and steady sober progress up the to >t of the mainland." Surmising that the Uritish eighth army probably had cros sed the Sir. ight ol Messina 111 small boats carrying only light equipment. General (Jordan Kin layson predicted lu.it iv.itial pro press would be slow ;t opposi tion were met. V'or several hours the London censors hailed dispatches quo ting speculation a pea' ing in l,ii:.dan newspapers. |).spatchcs were rele seel when the Ger mans drew the obviojs concltl sion that American forces might go into action later. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR SUICIDE VICTIM IJoanoke 1 { 1 pit!Srp! :!. (AIM — I*" neral services were held yesteid y for Mrs. Annie Hob "s. (>J. of Hoa noke Mapids. who. llalilax County Coroner II (J. Howe said, was n slantly killed Wed- csdav when she threw herself in front of a Seaboard Air l.ine pawnger liain near here. Coro er Howe ««id there were 'wo witnesses. . nd pronounced the de ilh a sii'i ide. Mrs. ltobni* had been 111 i!'. health, he said, a'd she left a note the contents of which lie , d:d not discIosc. The en. • " thc >t:-iiit was mari,. mirier < <••• i! a moonlc.-s night. i' ' !.••) :!)( : ■. mj of a g;-« ■ ' ■ •» . <•.< s the nar row . I'm 'if v . - . «.:>!>- two miles wid • •* • rr • e-t. I ill t r>r! ii :'io .-tia'.-i* the mil ling ->t . iintauis r:sing from tin- Italian toe i■ •ulct bo seen from Sicily. Tlir American General I'.isen liowcr was in supreme command of tlic historic operations. Amer ican planes anil warships played a prominent part in tlie prea ration antl support of the land ings. Wnile troiip-larlcn barges churned across the narrow Strait ot Messina, artillery on Sicily thundered a heavy barrage agai ..-t enemy gun positions, warships bombarded the beaches, and :< big concentration of aircraft hovered protectively overhead. Thc attack came on the fourth anniv orsary of Britain's declaration ot war on Hitler's Germany. Allied headquarters announc ed tliat Brenner Pass bridges had been bombed by allied aircraft. Ilravy attacks were made on bridge and rail installations at Rol/ano and Trento. both in northern Italy on the line from the pass, an air communique said. While the heavy bombers were striking at the :.\iai route by which axis forces in Itaiy are supplied from the north, medium bo ubers escorted bv jonii range tight<:> made a heavy attack i>a the rnihv..> yards at Can celio. near Napli . . i '.g new d.lin age on tracks that o)ton have been twister', and tmn i:i recent weeks. It v.a. en>pha-i/cd hero that thc lie.' ..ssanlt was r. ' I • i>e regarded as a "seen 1 front." but as a cun i mi; tion ol a campaign begun in north Atriea ami mo\ ".g into Eu ■ > pe step bv step Tun.sia. Pantel Icii.i. Sicily and 'a«w Italy itself. There was no mention of American ground lories taking part in the amphibious attack, but Yankee fliers teamed up wiili their British comrades to batter enemy positions and pro vide a protective sky screen for the assault troops. The landing came a iter two weeks oi i".tense ai. bombardment of south ern Italy, attacks that almost with out cxeeplion wer,. aimed at railway and other communication facilities to ti s upt cnen y troop and supply lum cments. On trcipicnt oi i as'on.-. too. allied warships steamed up to the coasts for inshor,. bombardmc ts. Fierce German opposition was ex pected on the 11 ainland. Th« thrust was made opposite Me-sina i tiio vicinity of Reggio Calab i i. mainl. nd ferry port which ll I- been attacked by ait almost I daily for several months. Italians Urged To Welcome Allied Troops London. Sept. :*—(AIM—'The Unit ed Nation., radio at Algiers broad cast a special appeal to the Italian people today asking them to wel come the allied forces landing ill j-outheru Italy "as liberators in the same fashion your forefathers wcl ! corned Gai haldi." Broadcasting in the Italian lan (Con imtcd on rage Five)
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