Stathj BtspafrJj THIRTIE 1 H YLAH wikb service o» THH A33QQ1ATKU PHE33? HENDERSON, N. C\, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25, 11)43 FIVE CENTS COPY RUSSIANS TAKE SMOLENSK drafted dads bid families adieu WHIlE THE NATION'S LAWMAKERS debate whether or not to draft prc-Pearl Harbor fathers, these men who became fathers after Dcc. 7, 1941, say good-bye to their wives and children as they leave Detroit for Fort Custer after their induction. Left to right are Robert Wentzel holding Dennis, nine months; Robert Mat thews with Gail. 11 months, and Alee Varjjo with Joan, 11 month*. (International Soundvlioto) Senate Will Defer Foreign Policy Act To Get Soviet Idea British Views Sought Also Before Passing on Any Declaration of Course Washington. Sept. 25—(A I') —The United States Senate, which will write America's! ticket in the post-war world. | took on this apparent attitude j today: Let's find out what Moscow thinks and wants before decid j injr on a definite international I set-up for maintaining the I peace. This interest i:i Kussia's views I was heightened by the arrival of j Admiral William II. Standley, who is believed to be ready to resign as ambassador to the U. S. S. If. Ho had a date to talk it over with Secretary of State Hull today. A.-. Standley returned to the cap it..'. iiiese facts stood out: 1. A strong trend developed j in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to delay action on any declaration of post-war pol icy until the views nf both Ens land and Russia have been sound ed out, fully and publicly. 2. Appointment of a new ambas siidu<- to Wussia. possibly Lcnd-Lcasc I Kxpcrt W. Avereil Hamman, \v;is in the wind, along with -election of an ( envoy to join the foreign ministers ! of Uritai' and Ulissi; in a inomen toiis moetmy at Moscow soon. This! meclinK intended t. pave tiie way i fi>1- a conference of Marshal Stalin, j Prime Minister Churchill and Presi dent Roosevelt. Cooperation, Or Ruin, Is Hill's View Pittsburgh, Sept. 25—(AP)—Sen ator (ix, AIji.), Democratic whip, said tod iy the United States must "either travel the way of interna tional cooperation and of peace, or wc go down the way of isolationism and destruction." In an address for delivery before the Democratic Women's Guild, the Alabaman, co-author with Senators Hatch (I).. N.* Me.O. Hall (K.. Minn.), and Burton ('<■. Ohio) of a Senate resolution proposing more effective machinery for maintaining world peace, said: "The present war will so deplete our critical and precious minerals, so drain and disrupt our domestic economy and take the lives atu! break the bodies of so many of our youths that the United States coiiM not survive another or third worM War. "And yet. we will go headlong into another world war if the Uni' States fails to cooperate with other peace-seeking nations and play its part in the building of an ordulv world." .WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Continued rool this afternoon, tonight and .Sunday forenoon. Beaverbrook Returns To British Post London. Sept. 2;».—(AP)—Lord Bcaverbronk came back into the Bri tish cabii i't today jiltcr «'in absence »l 20 months in :i shuttIt* designed to strenghthen the government for the direction of post-war planning. The newspaper publisher, one of the vociferous critics • >1 tlie govern ment since he left hi.- post as minis :er of airrrafi production almost two years <■ • ;iftcr ;i disagreement over the scope of his position, returned iis Lord I'rivy Seal but without mem bership in Prime Minister Winston Churchill's war ciibinet. As general utility minister he will assist Churchill with special adminis trative work and preside over a num ber of governmental committees con cert ed with both w;ir and post-war organization. The appointment of Beaverbrook was the only one announced bv No. in Downing street which occasioned any surprise. EDWARD WATKINS IS GIVEN COMMISSION Washington. Sept. ir>.—(AD — The War Department announced today a list of temporary pro motions of officers. It included these North Carolinians: First lieutenant to captain: l.otiis Lambert .lernican. Air Corps. 20" North Carolina street. Ooldsboro: Fdward Terry Wat Ulns. Air Corps. 571 VYILUam street. Henderson. Rumania Is Said Asking For Peace Reported Negotiating With Allied Envoys In Turkish Capital Madrid. Sept. -~i — (AP) — Reports, some clearly of Ger man origin, circulated here to day that represent at ives of the Rumanian government are ne gotiating with Allied represen tatives at Ankara, Turkey, for an armistice. The Rumanians first at tempted. the reports said, to ne gotiate only with the western powers, hut. failing in tnis, agreed ti> meet also with Rus sian representatives. There was no indication of the progie.-s Hi the rumored meetings, but Balkan representatives nere feel that ,-uch eonlerefiees iiiijjht be link ed with Budapest i"eporfs~bi' growing teiu. ui between Kiunania and Hun gary over Transylvania, northern Kumanian area eeded to Hungary iinci'v Axis pressure. The reports said tli.it Kumania first sounded out Hie Allies for an armistice shortly after Iten ito .Mussolini's ouster as Italian premier, and again sought an ar mistiee conference ini aediately after the Italian capitulation. Althougli reconciled to uncondi tional sin render, the Rumanians were said to be mainly c.inccrnort over the method of surrender and the fate of Trmsylvania. Yugoslavs Blast Nazis In Balkans Stockholm. Sept. 25.—(At*) — A Budapest <1 is|i.ileli to the news paper Svrnska Daghadct said to day that a full uralc military operation was under way again st tier man and Nazi satellite troops in Yugoslavia by a forec 180.000 strong under Allied com ma nd. The dispal\i said Ihe action hail reached llie sr.ilc where it could no longer he considered guerilla warfare, and fterlin dis patcher said I lie fiermans were rushing reinforcements to the Dalmatian area in an effort to regain control. Nazi military commanders admit, however, the dispatches said, that Yugosla vian forces hold strong mountain | positions. U. S. Army Overlooks Naples 19 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down by Allies; Vesuvius Lights Way Allied Headquarters in North Africa, Sept. 2">—(A1 *)—Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Ameri can Fifth Army has fought its way onto hills looking down on the plains of Naples in a fur ious day and night offensive supported by heavy artillery barrages and resisted by Ger man tanks as well as strong gun emplacements. Allied headquar ters said today. Meanwhile. Allied fighters shot down 1!) .1 unkers-'ri transports in an othei sweep agaiiM the hard press ed enemy's air evacuation move ment from Corsica where French patriots and regulars and American Hangers were pressing him into a tight corr.er. At least ten more of the evac uation planes were damaged in tlu* great air battle off historic l-'.lba in which IIAF l$caufiglit ers laid seise to the Cicrmall licld ti|: of the island and trapped the Nazi air licet just as tlie.v die: err Tunisia and Sicily. Struggling forward over terrain so difficult that pail; mules were used extensively to up gun.s and ammunition. Gen. Clark's men gain ed a foothold o the top of moun tains extending : "in Vesuvius and Pompei in their drive on Naples. In the words "• the headquarters spokesman the Allied troops could watch "our air forces knocking hell out of enemy communications in the area lielow." Reports from the front said the whole rugged mountain area north and northeast of Salerno was bril liantly lighted throughout the night by the flashes oi a terrific artillery duel between hundreds of Allied and German guns. Clark, who appeared to have been swinging somewhat east ward from his previous hard course due north of Salerno in a drive (o outflank Naples, now seemed to he thrusting with Ve suvius as a beacon, and a break through in the mountain area appeared possible at any time. An indication that the Germans despaired "t ever being able to es tablish a strong defense line across the whole Italian peninsula, which would enable tlicm to retain posses sion of Naples, was seen in the fact that the British Eighth Army ad vanced 15 miles up the Adriatic coast from Bari t.o the outskirts of the town of Molfetta without en countering enemy resistance. Seven I. S. Planes Landed in Russia M oseow, Sept. 25.— (AP)— Seven American planes landed on Soviet territory in Kamchat ka on September 12, dale of the last homhini: of The Japanese Kurilc islands, it was announced today. The announcement said the planes and crews had been in terned. (An American intelligence of ficer. describing the raid Septem ber IS. said five planes were presumed lost and five others might have reached land.t The Russian announcement said the planes were forced down because of "engine trouble". Glass Fabrics In Postwar Era Sure, Scientist Claims ChiiM«o. Sept. 25.—(AIM—Spun glass fur fabrics has o cents a bale lower. Open Close October December March . May .... July 2ii. II 20.30 2ll.ll 20.11!) tit'U l!».f!2 jfl.75 10.71 lU.jU lit .52 Middling spot 21.04. WAR PREVENTION BILL PASSED CONGRATULATIONS ARE EXTENDED to Rep. J. W. Fulbright (center) by Hep. Sol Bloom, N. Y. (left), and Rep. Charles A. Eaton, N. J. Ful bright's measure providing for U. S. participation in "appropriate in ternational machinery'' to prevent wars liad just been paired by tho House by a vote o£ 3G0 to 29. (international) Mnschhaten Airfield Is Wrested From The Japs Drive Upon Burma Set For October _ Toronto. Sept. 25.—(API ^ >i I Jock Hwang, special commis sioner «»l" the Overseas Ministry of China, predicted in an inter view last night that the Allied assault against Japanese forces in liurnia will open earlv in j October anil that within (wo months all Japanese will lie «lri- i ven from the country. Real Help Broughton Governor's Support For Vice President Mostly From Outside of State Daily IHsikkcIi Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, By I.VN V MS11KT ■ Haleigh. Sept. L'i —■ (. ivi i ii'M" Si ou^hlou's only c •luincnt when asked about lite Wa-liingti•] .story that he war- foctng consider t as a likely nominee ba vice |.i ■ ideni next year was l<> say that lu louiui thcstoiy ••very intcrcitiiig." The govc! nm- returned Ti day night alter a Kn-day abseilc.' Horn lu^ ullice during which he atteuc.cn ;i regional culitoreiiee of governors at Denver. an e\ccuii\e com nut tec meeting ot the national eonferenee at Lineoln. Kcln aska, the n tiouat Aniertean Legion convention at Omaha, ami appeared l>etore . con gressional coiniiiiltie oil stcoi .-iioii age in Washington Kacli ot 1he.-e engagement. wa strictly in line with Ins position as governor of North Carolina cxcept the pop-call on tiie l> aha Legion eonvention. That \\ a.- ju>t a iuii.li boi ly si>it. In the .-ame category i ills his trip to So. ill ISoMoii, Virginia. Friday night to help out in a war bend rally. The Virginia vi.sil came .tooul through close pei-. iii.il Irienci hip ot both Governor Hroughion and Lieu tenant Governor I Ian is with Lieute nant Governor \V. M. Buck. of Vir ginia. who live- at South Huston. All I lie same, it won't do t lit- prospective candidate tor vice president any liarni to get better acquainted wi'li the voting population ■>! Virginia. The governor .-ays lie is not going to get escitcd aliotit 1 lit- vice pn-: tiency and i certainly not going n make any can paigu tor the nonum lion. From other source.*, in addition io those indirectly quoted previou-'v in this correspondence. it is learned lhat there i- some leal tore back o| I lie idea that 'he southeast i.-- entitled (Continued on Page Five) MacArthur Gets Base j 75 Miles From Enemy New Britain Bastion Allied Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific. Sept. 25— (AI *)—Tin* Finschhafcn air field has been wrested from tlie j -Japanese, jrivinjr General Doujr i las MacArtluir a New Guinea; base for his planes 7-"» miles , from the enemy's strategically , important bastion of New llri- \ tain. Australians who landed front the! sea in the lace of mortar and ma chine aun lire .six niles north ol j F n>ehha! en Wedne-ii. v eai'turcd the] lield and now are within three quar ters of a mile of !tii> town, head- I quarters reported today. 'I lie i?i:j»« 11«I tin cap:;. >• of Fm-ch hafen wotdd add s\:\ more miles of -lime line—that between Finsch hafen and l.ae--In l!:«• X< w (I .hum coastal leu' ii under Allied control From I-'iiiMliluifen'- airfield, tin serviceable ici-enlly t.< the Japanese because <•! Allied a poundings- il i.- an l!."i mile IliRht to the enemy airdrome • i Cape (ilouce.-ter and Kia miles to the CJasii ..la airdrome— New I'riiain i>ascs a.-., dint: the wav lip that cre>cent-sha|>ed island to Itabaul. .i >ti .>nahold with three air dromes and a harbor capable o| ac commodating! good -i/ed fleet. Capture <•] the S i nana airdrome September 11 and the I-ae airbasc September ll> ha been followed quickly by incre.i.-id fijjhler and attack pla;:e activ t\ "vcr New Bri tain. Today's omtmiti uie reported that fiahter-. idenlilied v a spokesman as I'-40s. riivchoinhcd installations on the tiny island ol G»>mata. Thomas Says OPA Might Wreck Party i Wasliiucton. Sept. 25.— (AIM — Senator Thomas (I).. Okla.i war ned tin- Office of I'rice Adniiuis (ration today that there would he "revolt" acainst (lie Democrats hi I!K1 unless OI'A ollici.ils abandoned practices "contrary to the American way of life". "I can not believe that your ad ministration desires to make the Office of Price Administration so unpopular, oppressive, and ridiculous as to cause the people of (he country to revolt almost solidlx al the election to lie held io IWII." Thomas wrote Chester Itowles. OI'A enteral maimser. "I have just spent two month" in Oklahoma, and the wave of resentment there Is almost uni versal acainsl the practices which are considered either unnecessary or entirely enntrarv lo the Aineri t ran way of lite." Red Army's Victory One Of Greatest Germans Admit Armies Withdrawn; Disastrous Defeat for the Nazis I.mi don. Si-lit. —(AIM— Smolensk. iimicru Kuruiii's must heavily lurtilii'd cities and back bone ill' tlu- (icrman central Rus sian defenses. loll In Soviet forces today in oni' of Ihr Kreat cst victories of llic Russian war, Moscow announced tonight. London, Sept. 25—(AI') — The German hijrh command an nounced today i hat German troops have evacuated 'Smo lensk. jrivatest Nazi base on the Russian central front l'or more than two years. On the basis of the German announcement the Red army has won one ol' its greatest victories of the war. Kv;euation nt the 210 miles northeast "I threatened Kiev and 2H0 mill's west >>: Mh-cow. was an ii" inccd in • in;iiumii|iii; broadcast by DNIi and I'l-aided by tiic* Asso ci.'ed Pro Abandonment of It»».s lavl. railroad tnwii (>.S miles south cast til Sni> «l;. w.i,. al-ii reported in the c< intnli. que Col. Trust \ on llatnniei. {Mili tary correspondent of the Nazi int«'i'ii.itiniiu 1 intormalioii bureau with tla- Germrfu. armies on the eastern front, said in a dispatch broadcast h.v DM' tliut evacua tion measurrs^Tiad been started three weeks ago and that it was quickened during the past few ila.vs while German rear guards fought a successful defense*bat Tile i senium war bulletin said tliat Nazi columns we re attacking in the Lake Ladoga region in the Leningrad salient and had repulsed Soviet tank supported counter at tack- claimed. The tail of Smolensk was re garded here as one of the most disastrous defeats suffered by German forces in the current Kussian offensive. Berlin said Smolensk evacua tion was completed early today and that covering forces blew up bridges and important cross roads after the last (ierman transports had left the city. In the nine imnths since a bad gered Kcd arn v threw hack the Ger man- liom S: .lingrad. the Russians have accomplished two-thirds ot their t.i-k "t hurling the invaders !:om So\ it'l S"il. Hitler's steadily retreating forces have now given up all but about 230.000 of the 700.000 square miles nf Soviet territory they held at the height of their successes, and hold only about three percent fo Russia's 8.800. 001) square mile area. Fortresses Near Rescue RAF Crew Dow n in the Sea A I nit.Ml Stall's Fortress Rasp in Kim la ml. pi. —(AD—Six Flying Fortresses searching for an RAF Halifax crew floating in tin- North Sea a frw days ago s|intti"(l thrni just as tliry were aliotil to In; "reseuril" by a Ger man Hornier seaplane. Tlir Fortresses sank the Hor nier anil also shot down one of two .lunkrrs-SS's which tried to interfere. Tliry then engaged in a rare with the remaining Nazi plane to eel a rrseur plane to tlir Halifax ami Hornier rrews before another (lerman seaplane eould he found, but the Ger mans won and raptured the I jiglislimrn. When the Fortressc.- broke in on the ocean drama. tlir Domier was -ii dose l<> the RAF dinghy thai the \mc ie..' gunners Here liiird put to i!t. "k the seaplane without endan itu tlir Engl shnicn. They man igcd t'i stioot trie tail off so the Hornier went down and the German tow had i i take to their boats. When '.he 1 w^n-cngincd Junker es •"itiiiK the Hornier closed in. the :ir r.r: ■ poli.-hcd "II one. The other dre.iked (•• • home, presumably to ;rl assistance. The Forties- airmen waved reas tttranee to the floating fliers and 'ook up the i ire. Rut the German r>r ba.»es were rlo»er and when 7AF planes -cached the scene tho Jlye:c aV. cady hud been p;cktd up.