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1/m Itatiteraon SaUiiIHspatrli ^ THIRTIETH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1943 akticknuun t 1VE IEN 1S COPY REDS STORMING ACROSS DNIEPER RIVER — - j Broughton Prospect On FDR Ticket Governor Seriously Considered for Post Of Vice Presidency In the Sir Walter Hotel. l)ail> Dispatch Bureau, By ItTNN MSBDT Raleigh, Sept. 24—A story emanat ing from Washington about the pro bability or Governor J. Melville Broughton of North Carolina being a real contender for the vice presi dential nomination next year indi cate.-; the movement isas gone further than some of the governors home Slate lrisnds had thought. In tact, it has Rone further than even the Washington story indicat ed, because some very important people have become greatly inter ested. The whole thing started at Baltimore last January when the 'l's.r Heel governor literally stole the show at the council of State Gover nors with a speech on state's rights and state's responsibility. Broughton made a novel approach to the sub ject. Usually the idea of state's rights was empluisi/ed without any men tion of responsibility. Head ion to that speech led to invitations to speak at other places throughout the United Stale.-'. Many of these invita tions the governor has had to o«_ cline. but he has been to the front in publicity about other governors' con ferences in Tallahassee, Atlanta, Co lumbus and Denver. Just last week at Denver lie made national headlines and even was given cartoon treatment in one or two syndicated drawings with Ins wisecrack about this country win ning the war whether the next presi dent was a Democrat, a Republican —or Mr. Willkie. Valuable as this sort of publicity might prove later on, it is of little consequence so far as influence upon the party leaders who really select the nominees. Gov ernor Broughton has not been ignoi cd by this inner circle of king-mak ers. To the contrary, he has been under very close scrutiny by them for some months. Part of the time tie knew he was taking "an examina tion;" most of the time he didn't know how closely he was being watched. It is an open secret that a recent invitation to address a group of powerful New Englanders did not come to a North Carolina governor, but to a prospective candidate tor (Continued on Page Three) Germans Declare 21 Navy, Merchant Convoy Ships Sunk I.ondon, Sept. 21.— (API—The Berlin radio reported today that Gorman submarines had made a surprise attack on a heavily escorted Allied convoy enroute to America, sinking 12 destroyers and nine merchant ships totaling 46,500 tons. The German broadcast, which was recorded by The Associated Press, was unconfirmed by any Allied source, but it recalled I Prime Minister Churchill's state ment in the House of Commons Tuesday that an Allied convoy was at the moment under attack. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Not finite so warm this after noon. Slightly cooler tonight and Saturday forenoon. BARUCH ASKS FOR DRAFT OF FATHERS Hand cuppcd to his ear. Bernard Baruch listens I > a question from Senator Wheeler (lighti during the former's appearance before the Senate and House Military commi'.tees to testily on the Wheeler hill to postpone induction of fathers into the armed forces until January 1. Baruch urged the legislators to support the manpower needs of Gen. George .Marshall. (International Soundphoto.) Foes Of Father Draft Go After Federal Workers Some Congressmen Say Thousands of These Should Be Taken First Washington. Sept. 24—(AIM— Ahautiwiiing the fight to outlaw the father draft, a congressional bloe sought to cushion thr Im pact on the nation's homes to day by driving into uniform what one legislator called "a lost army" <-f thousands of govern ment workers. Chairman May (1).. Ky.) of the House Military Affairs Committee, said it would be futile to press for legislation to prohibit the drafting of pre-Pesirl ilarbor fathers, lie an nounced also that his committee would ask Major General Lewis H. Hershey to explain next week why an estimated 300,000 dralt ;if{o. non lathers in the Federal employ have not been inducted, although no otti cial request was made H>r their de ferment. One of May's sub-committees, headed bv Representative Coslello (D., Calii.), said its investigation ot government deferment policy indi cated that approximately SWi.OOO Fed eral workeis apparently eligible for the draft have not bern called fur induction. "1 do not claim Dial sill of these men should be in the armed serv ices," Costello told reporters, "but certainly a lot of them should be." AIRMAN KILLED ON TRAINING FLIGHT Shaw Field. S. C.,Sept. 24.—(AP) —The Shaw Field Public Relations Office ssiid today that A. ;ation Cadet Jerome I.eonsird Goldntiii, of Ne\f York City, was killed instsintly at 10:17 p. m. yesterday when his train ing plane crashed two and one-half miles west ol Kinston. i\!. C. Goldmsm was on a routine training flight. The Public Relations Office said a competent board of officers had been named lo investigate 1 ho crash. Broughton Calls Item Interesting As To Nomination Raleigh, Sept. 24.—(AIM— Governor Broughton said today lie had found "very interesting" a .special dispatch in the Greens boro Daily News saying a move ment for nomination of Brough ton for the vice-presidency was Raining momentum. Other than that, the Governor made no comment on the ar ticle, written in Washington. Congress To Give Ballot Service Men Washington, Sept. :!i.—(APV — Preliminary steps to enable several million members of the sinned serv ices t<» cast absentee ballots in tile ION State primaries and the presi- I dential election were taken in Con gress today. Chairman Green (I).. I?. I.) an nounced he had asked Secretary 01 War Stimson and Navy Secretary Kiiox to give the Senate Elections Committee their views on a pending plan to permit overseas service men and women to use a simplified V mail ballot. As soon as Stimson's and Knox's statements are received, Green said lie would open hearings on the pro posal. which he sponsored with Sen ator Lucas (D., III.). Chairman Worlcy (D., Tex.), of the House Committee 011 Elections, also announced plans to open bear ings 011 similar legislation well in advance of the first primaries next 1 March. , AMERICAN LEGION VETERANS MEET AT OMAHA VETERANS OF THE AMERICAN LEOION arc shown assembled at the opening session of their convention at Omalia, Neb. One of the principal events of the meeting was the presentation of the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. George C. Marshall, Arm/ Chief ol Stall. Marshall gave the veterans a report on tha JKggrgg of tht war.. * (International iawitofcatoll RAF Heavy Bombers Hit Nazi Cities War Industry Points Heavily Strafed by Attacking~Air Force London. Sept. 2-1.—(AP)—The RAF's heavy bombers struck at Germany lasl night for the sec ond successive night, and the Ber lin radio reported today that the twill towns of Marnhcim and T-udwigshafcn at the junction or the Khine and Ncckar rivers had been attacked. The German broadcast recorded by The Associated Pro-, said what Darmstadt. and Acheti also had been bombed. Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, which have a combined population of about 350.1)00, are thesite of impor tant war industries and a:i impor tant communications center, const i tutig the second largest inland port in Europe. It was the 59th attack upon the two cities, whicli last were subjected to a devastating H.\F i;ud on the night of September 5. Darmstadt, about 15 mile ,-outh of Frankfort and about Uli m,k's north of Mannheim-Ludwigshafoa. also i» an important manufacluriiu center, being the site o! large ire.: lound ries. Aachen, 14 miles southwest of Cologne, boasts many important che mical works. The Vichy radio, in a broadcast recorded by The Associated Press, said Anei'can planes attacked Paris last nig!:;, starting a fire in a big store. One was reporter shot down. There was n> official indication of any American operation near Paris since the Marauder raid on Hie Beauvais-Tiiie a rticld. 45 miles north of the capital, late yesterday. Nazis Still Withdrawing On Corsica Allied Headquarters in Mi rth Af rica, Sept. 21 (AP)—The Germani are continuing their northward with drawal "ti Corsica, a French com munity: , said today. Allied forces have occupied P, nniueio i.nd Port' Vecchi". while Allied planes inter cepted (Jernian attempts a: an aerial evacuation. Bast a. "i the northern tin "t the 112-milclong i-land, has been ren dered almost useless to Hie ynemv throtiuh continued air raid*, '-h French I>8h command said. Several ammiir;' 'ii dumps and nmiicronv tanks on a c|tiayside awaiting em barkation were destroyed. The occupied towns of Bonifacio mid Porto Vecchio are at the south ern e- d of the Napoleonic isle. French air force units are partici pating in the operations. Meanwhile. (Jen. Charles IV Gaulle, co-president ot the French Committee of National liberation, hailed liberation of Corsica as France'.. e«'i)trihution to the t'nited Nation's effort in "one war for one victory." Soviet Army In 9 Miles Of Smolensk Germans Evacuating All Installations In Frantic Retreat Moscow, Sept. 21—(AP) — The lied army has reached ihe j Dnieper in force, and other So viet units northwest of Smo lensk have reached the village of Tarasenki, only three miles from the border of White Rus sia, {Soviet dsipatches said to day. (The German high command said the Russians already were making heavy (busts in efforts to cros< the Dnieper, but declared they were repulsed.) Although the German high command tailed to bear out (he rept:r(. the Berlin radio said (lie Germans also were systematic ally evacuating heavy equip ment and civilians from (heir bridgehead across the Kerch strait in the Caucasus. With the Red Army only nine miles from Smolensk, after captur ing Luzanovo. the Germans were in immediate danger of losing their central front citadel, which \they have held since the early days of their smash toward Moscow. A dispatch to the army news paper Red Star said Russian troops first reached this big objective through Novomoskovsk in tl*« lower Ukraine on the upper elbow of the river in a drive from Poltava. The ca^ -» ture of Novomoskovsk was an nounced yesterday. Strong forces of Soviet troops have arrived on the banks of the j Dnieper at other points. Red Star said. As the Russians readied the Dnieper from Novomoskovsk, the Germans threw in everything they hiid in an attempt to halt the Red army drive west of Poltava, cap ture of which was the high spot of yesterday's Russian forward surge. $6 Millions In Liquor Profit In This State Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir «Va!ter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. :!!.—Receipts by the State and 25 ABC' counties from profits of liquor selling amounted to nearly six million dollars lor the ii> | cat year ending last June 30, accorti I ing to report of the State ABC' board. The federal government got almost as much. Total sales for the year amounted to S22.297.524.25, which was more than nine million above the previous year. The state got 1! 1-2 per cent sales tax. amounting to Sl.TI8.it74.0l. After this tax was deducted and ail operating expenses paid, including liberal allowance for law enlorce mcnt. the counties and municip.ilitics sharing in pro! its were recipients ol $4,143,393. Hi. Less liquor was sold during the year than for the preceding twelve months, but the increased pi ice due largely to a boost of $2.00 ;i gallon in federal excise tax on alcohol, brought the total cash receipts far above 1941-42. Whatever opinion may be held a? to the vice or virtue ol the ABC -ys lent, it is noteworthy that Ihe lour million dollars received !>>' 'he coun Ities and cities where ABC liquor was sold brought about just that much tax reduction, whereas the half mil ] lion profit alleged to have been j made by one bootlegger in Wilkes | county served no public good. Fifth Army Strikes At Naples Highway Italian Royalty Reported as Safe From Nazi Enemy Born. Switzerland. Sept. 21. — (AIM —The Swiss telegraph agency reported today that Queen Klena of Italy and Crown I'rinee I'mbcrto have arrived at Geneva. They were reported to have traveled through France to reac h Switzerland. (The exact whereabouts of King Vittorio Kmanuelc has not lieen announced, hut Prime Mi nister Churchill told Commons this week that the kins and his government "are now established behind our advancing lines". The Newspaper of Lugano said Paler mo. .Mcii.v. is the provisional seat of the king and file govern ment. (The Berlin radio said yester day the Axis had rejected sug gestions that I'mbcrto become kins "after the abdication" of Vittorio Knianuele.) Yugoslavs Fight Nazis In Trieste Fiume Is Threatened Also in North Ualy; Patriots Aid Allies London, Sept. 21 — (AP) — Strong Yugoslav guerilla forces were reported fighting German troops today in the streets of Trieste and threatening Fiume iu an apparenlty coordinated drive against the two Italian ports at the northern end of the Adriaitc. The action was part of a series of new Harelips by pa.:.-an armies against Nazi occupying forces at scattered points aluiig some 401) mile.- of the (astern Adriatic shore, all conceivably inaugurated with Allied approval. Yugoslav forces here said Slovene irregulars struck some 25 miles into Italy from the Yugoslavian border and pene trated Trieste, with oppressed inhabitants of that former Ital ian naval base joining their ranks to attack tlie Nazi garri son. These same forces reported other Slovene formations !t;id occupied Idria. Italian mountain town four mill's east of the Yugoslav border and 28 miles northeast of Trieste, while farther to the east ill north western Yugoslavia heavy fighting was said to he in progress along a 50-mile front between Bistrica and Ljubljana. 'I he British Broadcasting Corpo ration. (;uoting a broadcast by the A!gi«%< radio, said that Fiume was being shelled by partisan artillery set up in SusaU. a mile and a hall away across the frontier. The partisans reported engaged around Trieste and Finnic apparent ly were operating under command of I he Montenegrin guerilla chief tain Josip Broz, familiarly k-own as "Tito." but the forces of General Draja Mihailovic were said to In fighting further south m the interio.*. News of the fighting recalled re cent Cairo dispatches indicating that Allied senior officer- had gone to Yugoslav ia to attempt to coordinate the activities ot "Tito" 'and Mihail ovic with Allied strategic plans. German Positions in Corsica Are Almost Wiped Out by Allies Allied 1 leadcptarters in North Africa. Sept. 24—(AP)—The Fifth Army has launched a full scale offensive njrainst German mountain positions Ktiardinjf the route to Naples, it was an nounced today, while Allied mo tor torpedo boats stormed into Yalona harbor on the coast of Albania and sank two enemy vessels. The onslaught by Lt.-Gen. Mark \V. ("lark's American and liritish soldiers from their hard won Salerno positions was accompanied by an intensifica tion of the blockade of the wan injr German positions on the is land of Corsica. Three Ueuulightei - sliced mtr> German air transport lormations en gaged in evacuating the enemy forces and shut down seven of ttie planes. The communique from General Dwigill I). TieTYTiquar ters said the Filth Army had cap turod Oliveto-Citra. L'4 miles east of Salerno. while M itera. .'Ml miles northwest of Tar.into, had been cap tured on the British front. An oflicial announcement said Altanuira. 42 miles northwest of Taranto and ten miles north of Ma tera. also had been captured. The drive against Naples. Italy's scrnnd greatest port, was launched after a period of con solidation of the Allied spring board and while the Germans were reported engaged in large scale demolitions. apparently with the idea of making the harbor installations useless when the Allies occupy the city. (The Allied controlled *%ilermo radio, in a broadcast reported to day to the Office of War Informa tion. said Italians escaping from Na ples reported residents of the eity were battling Germans in the streets, firms fit tl'e enemy from the win dows of their homes or using stones it without i;;e arms. (Citizens who rebel are shot without inquiry by the German officials, tile broadcast said. "Nu merous Italian officers and sol diers have also been shot on grounds of uon-collaboriition.") While Clark threw nearly his f'*li weight into the ferocious attacks, the German- were forced to concentrate almost entirely in that area and the British Kighth Army in the south was able to advar.i'e swiftly and almost at w II; The daring niotorboat foray to flic Albanian shore marked up an Allied move in a new direc tion against the German forces in southeastern and southern Europe. A naval announcement said the largest ol the two vi ssels sunk was laden with amnur ition. Shore bat teries opened lire on the torpedo boats tiu!::if* their retirement, caus ing damage to one vessel, but all returned to their base without cas ual! ;es. the announcement said. CONFEDERATE HOME DIRECTORS PICKED Raleigh. Sept. 24.— (AP)— Charles G. Hose ol Fayetteville. was reap pointed today chairman of the board ol directors of the Confederate Wo men's Home at Fayetteville. Governor Broughton also ruined as director.- for terms expiring May 1 !• 4 T. T. Thome, of Rocky Mount: Mrs. K. R. MeKeichan. of Fa>ettev'lle: Mrs. .t. S. Howe, of liic kory: Mrs. Quentin Gregory, of Hali fax: Mrs. John II. Anderson, of Ra leigh. a'.d Mis. Walter Woodard. of Wilson. Jap Air Base Near Capture Allied Headquarters i n tlie Southwest Pacific. Sept. 24.— (AIM — Australian artillery pounded the Japanese today in the New Guinea coastal base of rilisehhafen. arching shells over front line patrols which have heatcn down rapidly fading ene my resistance to reach the edge of an airfield two miles north of an airfield two miles north of their objective. General Dotiglns MacArUuir thus confronted the Japanese with "lie threatened loss of their air base since Sept. 12 in a jnnglo sector where the enem;- already has expand ed iv >re than 12.00!» men. T.<day Mat-Arthur pt-rm::! od re lease 'if iho fir~l de'a I- of the aai phibinutt operation aua'ii-i Fit scha vcn. only 70 nverwatei niles .south west of New Britain. a key position j <>l the Japanese. Australians befja" landing on a ' beach ix niles north of K.nschafen i at dawn Wednesday, six day.* alter ; the tall of Lue and ten days af'ei : the capture of Salamaua. American warships bombarded enemy po>it ons beyond the beach head. Bombers dropped 21 tons ot explosives on Kinschhafen. Attack planes fired 40,000 rounds of am munition. Eighty live mile- northwest, the Japanese a.r unit- at Cape Olottees 'er. New Ibitain. were prevented from interfering. For four hours there. !>ig Ameriean bombers blasted with 73 tons of bombs and attack planes poured out I .">.00(1 rounds of bullets. While Australian soldiers and Ame rCan paratroopers Inn ted down 600 •Japanese who fled into the jungles above captured Lac. headquarters reported today a preliminary count of more than (5.300 enemy soldier* slai i since July I in the Lae-Snla mauii sector. Six thousand more were estimated previously to have been killed there before July 1,
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