North Carolina Newspapers

Ht'Uih>ran„ Bmlu Htspatrij THIRTIETH year TmSI:VvvV,!!,: Sl:|:vi< 11 ■ ASS< m'IATKK I'll MEN PERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 29, 1943 iti:i.isiii:i. v ain:ux<.<..\ i:.\» i:i r sim-a > FIVE CENTS COPY FALL IMMINENT Congress To Take Over Spendings To Have More Voicc In Voting Funds for i Relieving Foreigners Washington. Sept. 21)—(AP) j —President Roosevelt's delena-1 timi of direction over foreign economic operations to Leo T. Crowley was interpreted 111 Congress today as assuring leg islative control of the purse strings when the time comes io make extensive appropriations for the relief and rehabilitation j of peoples freed from the Axis yoke. A high administration official said th:it "He «»f tho principal objective;} of the move placing four separate foreign economic agencies under Crowley, who already headed the Oil ice of Economic Warfare, was ti simplify dealings with Congress when appropriations are sought. Tiii- admittedly was secondary to tile desire to have one directing and j responsible head for American oper ation-' in each foreign area to pre-1 vent overlapping activities such as have brought complaint from mem ber* of the Truman war investigat gie.-s to appropriate to a fully Anier inu committee. Iliit tile importance of asking Con ican agency was said to have in fluenced War Mobilization Director ,I;imes F. Byrnes to insist that the Oftice of Foreian Relief and Re habilitation- Operations l>e brought urdcr Crow ley's wing, along with j OFAV. lend lease and the State De partment Office of Foreign Economic i Coordination. Byrnes \vas said to have pointed out to objectors that Congress would he.-itatc to make appropriations to any international agency such as the administration hopes it can persuade flic I'nited Nations to set up. with Ks-Governor Herbert II. Lehman, of New York, as its world director. ARTHUR R. ROHrT ELECTED TREASURER N. C. BANDMASTERS Kaim.ipolis, Sept. 28—Arthur R. Rolir. director of music in Kannapo Jis -chools and conductor of Cannon high's band, has been elected treas urer o| the North Carolina Band masters association. At the organ ization's annual meeting at Charlotte during the week-end, the band lead ers approved a proposal to discon tinue full-scale music festivals and competitive meets for the duration. WARNING OF INSEC TS College Station, Raleigh. Sept. i!!l —Insects attacking fall gardens must he controlled if full crops of late vegetables are to bo produced, J <'U^t at State Cyllege, dcci.ncd here Myron Maxwell, Extension entomol today. "Tomato hortnvorms, for ex ample, which have developed on to. matoes and tobacco throughout the season, are now concentrating on fall tomatoes, but they may be con trolled |jy applications of cryolite dust or spray," Maxwell said. Germans Now Hold Little Of Corsica Allied Headquarters in North Af 'hvi. Sept. 2!)—(AP>—The Oermiins now hold only a 15-mile strip along 'he cast roast of Corsica, in the Uiis liii-Hnrgo-Folelli area. the French high command announced today. The Nazis had speeded up their retreat from the strategic Meditcr- i r;"iean island, evacuating the moun-1 'finous area between Corte and the sea I'icdicroce, an important ren- i ter of enemy resistance, was cap-1 lured yesterday, the communique said. Metts Recalls Breaking German Hindenburg Line Just 25 Years Ago Today In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dally Ills paler. Bureau, Raleigh, Sept. 2!l.—II was just 25 years hu'i. September 21), llllfl. that North Carolina troops l«'(l the assaull 'hat broke I he Hindt itbtti'K lino in France, and assured early cud of (lie other world war. One of (lie roKimcnlnl commanders on thai occasion was t*ol. .lohn Van 11. Metis, commanding 'he 119th i\. C. Inf., now ii briwidici general heading the North Carolina State Guard and in charge of selective ser vice in (he State. General Metis, in reminiscent mood yesterday, vividly recalled some of the instances of the eventful baltlc. The attack began at 5:50 .Sunday morning with tin* llllth and IJOth N. ('. regiments right in front. With typical modesty and v. i111 military terseness fJencral Metis slimmed lip the iesnlt m llnse \vi»ids: -The 3Wh division broke through the enemy first line trenches, look the St. (juentin tunnel forming Ihc reserve position, and gained its ob jective." There'" <> M ol history m thai brief comment. The interviewer was more interested in somr -.r iiw. men in thai memorable fight ana (Continued on Page Four) — Bill Would Hike Funds To Families Wives and Children Cf Men in Service \Vould Receive More Washington, Sept. 2!>—(A I') —Endorsing legislation to boost go\ernnumt payment to de pendents of enlisted servicc* men, the War and Navy l)e partments today opposed sug gestions that wives be required to prove dependency before re ceiving aid. Speaking lor the two departments M;ij<>r Oti'.crai Miller CI. White, as sistant army chief of staff in charge of pcrsonr.el. told the House Mili tary Committee he was in general accord with a bill passed by the Senate to increase the allowances :::id make them available to depend ent- ol all enlisted men. "The dependency i.llowances are a part ot the pay" of a soldier, Gen eral White said, in opposing a .sug gestion by Representative Tlunna son (I).. Tex.) that the government exempt financially independent w ives. I' ssed by the Senate on July II. the measure would leave unchanged the present total payment of SMI to :i dependent wife of an enlisted man. bin would boost from S(>2 to S(>8 the allowance for a wife and one child, with an increase from SIP to 511 for each additional child. None ul the increased payments would be I a ken from the service men's con tribution. which would remain at >22 monthly lor ela.-s A dependents, •r wives u.'.d children. Fulbriglit Peace Proposal Shelved By Senate Group Washington. S®pt. *J!I.— (AIM — A Senate Foreign Relations Suh ('ommiltei> decided today to pigcurhiilr the llouse-approved Fulhriglit "lasting peace" resolu tion and to draft its own declara tion of post-war foreign policy. Without specifically mention ing the Fulhright proposal. Chairman i'oniiaily (!>., Tex.) announced that the suli-commit tee, would "draft a resolution expressive of its attitude", and recommended it to the full com mittee. I)R Message Soon To Go to Congress On Food Situation Washington, Sept. 29—(AI'>—Con gressional leadei-.s reported after a .•onlcreiue with President Hoosevclt today tliai he expects t" send to Con gress a message on •'tlx- food situa tion" in the near future. Senator Majority Leader Barkley., isked whether the message would leal with the subsidy program, re l)lied it would embrace "the whole food situation and farm production iituatii 11 foj- 1044." With Barkley ;it the White House vcre Vice President Wallace. Speak •r Rayburn and House Majority Leader MeCormack, C'AKTKRF.T I XCEI DS (JI OTA Morchcnd City. Sept. 28—1. E. t'ittman, chairman of Carteret coun y war bond committee, said today lie county had gone over the top in he third war loan campaign. He ndicaiod that sales stood at approx imately $40(1.000. The county quota s $379,000. With a rally scheduled for Newport tomorrow night, Pitt man said lie expected the county [otal to go well beyond the present figure. OUR NAVY-'ROUNP THE WORLD . AMERICA'S RAPIDIY GROWING NAVY is making Its force felt in almost every lighting quarter ot the world. This map reveals how the U. S. Naval forces arc deployed in the various war theatres and in defense of our home shores against any threat of invasion. The North Pacific Force (1) is based on the Aleutians while another force (2) guards the North west Sea Frontier covering Alaska and the coast of western Canada. Still another force (3) is deployed to guard the Western Sea Frontier ot the U. S. itself. At Pearl Harbor (4) is based our main Pacific fleet, backstopped by the naval units attached to the Hawaiian Sea Frontier ,(5). The Panama Canal has its own formidable naval force (G) while "down under" our South Pacific and Southwest Pacific forces, (7) and (8), have been seeing plenty of action in those areas. In addition there is a Southeast Pacific Force (D) which patrols the western coast ot South America. On the Atlantic side our naval force in Northern Europe (10) works side by side with the British, while the Atlantic Fleet (11) has been lighting a deadly war against Nazi U-boats. Its activities are supported by naval units of the Eastern Sea Frontier (12), the Gulf Frontier (13), the Caribbean Sea Frontier (14) and the South Atlantic Force (15). In the Mediterranean a special U. S. naval force (16) has been cooperating with the British Mediterranean Fleet, (liiicriialiunul) Nazi Bridgeheads Crumbling Detroit Woman In Plea of Guilty on Espionage Chargej Detroit. Sept. 2»— (AD— An other of the croup of men aiul i women accused t>y the govern ment of conspiring to send war j production information to Nazi I Germany pleaded guilty in j I'uited States District Court here. She was Mrs. Kmma K.lisc I.enohardt. 5(i-,vear-old house- i wife, whose Kasl Side home the Federal Bureau of Investigation i place for the group. I asserted was used as a meeting Previously her husnand, Carl Lconharilt. 56-year-old house research engineer, pleailed guil ty. Five others, including three women, have been iudicieiT on similar charges. Lodge Asks More Truth In War News Pearl Harbor. Srpt. 2!>—(AIM —Greater frankness in war news prrsi'titaiion today will prevent cynicism anil lack ol' confidence in our leaders later. I'. S. Sen ator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (I!.. Mass.) said in an exclusive in terview after war front visits where "I saw the reaction of our figlitiin; men to habitually opti mistic news reports." Hf v i!i report t<» Congress that I "our fighting Mien are mad because j of the false optimism <>f our news." j "It's a gene il condition of our I news report inc. our communiques. 1 our radio commentators and our ( desk writers."' lie said. He noted 1li.it censors perhaps i overlooked the fact that, unlike the last war. the new - they censor gets back bv radio within 2-i hours to the men who make (ho news, who arc wounded and wh" have fallen com rades. "Our present i.-w- censorship. a* I saw it at the front, enrages and disillusions our r>ijlilirte men in the truthfulness of their leaders and at home il breeds apathy" Senator Lodge said. "Whom our ro-y censorship and prop, :g»nda helps I d-> n<>1 know. | If anything. il helps the enemy by : ffct 1 i»'U ii- I" umi< climate him. J Otir lighting men rao-dly are learn inir Ilia'. our propaganda which I makes all <«m allies >;""d and all our enemies bad is bunk " lie told of seeing An erican soldiers befriend Italian and German pris oners bul said no such comradeship I exist- in the Pacific. I "Our fiuht will, the .lap is a fight I to the finish." he said. ! WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA I.lttle chance in temperature I this afternoon, tonight and I Thursday forenoon, New Guinea Battle Near To Victory Australian Soldiers Exacting Heavy Toll Of Japanese Forces AHied Headquarters in the Southwest 1'actfic, fcjopt. 2!)— (AP)—The bloody battle for Finschhafen roared toward its finish today, with Australian soldiers exacting a heavy toll among the Japanese defenders, and the supporting bases of the enemy for ">00 miles to the northwest along the New Gui nea coast bombed into impo tence. More than sixty planes v.trc de stroyed at Wewak by Allied bomb trs unci lighters Monday. Three tankers and lour merchant ships, just arrived in the VVewuU harbor with supplies which could have been intended for overland n..i\e;nent south, were blasted to the harbor bottcm. The coastal road leading from We wak dmvn to Ki;'.sciihafen \\ .is straf ed at Hansa Hay by Allied lighter.-. Less than a mile north oi t insch liafen. veteran Australian ground troops struck hard at Japanese posi tion.-, i>ii high ground, inflicting heavy casualties. Otinr Australians have fought their way to the banks of the llcbbe creek west of Finschhafen. The en emy's air and supply base, which is separated by only 70 miles of wa ter 1 -uni Japan's strategic island holding of New Britain, is virtually encircled. Allied artillery shelled i) Headquarters, in the first report on the new air raid on Wewak, said that operational base *,vas heavily bonibcii and also hit by IGO.OO'l round of ammunition Monday for an ho ir and a half by more than 200 raidei > First Army-WAC Wedding Abroad Is of Far Heels lniidon. Sept. 20.— <.\P)—The first wedding between two non commissioned members of I he t'liited States Armv and the W u s in England h.i» been set for October III at tlir t'nifed Stales bomber hasp where the bride-to-be. I'vt. Mary IJizabeth I'llintt. of Kinston, X. has been stationed. .she is marrying Set. Wallace It. Best, of Kaleigh, N. They Mill have a 18-hour Imnevmoon. after which they will return to their respective stations 100 miles apart. Reds at Dnieper RUSSIAN FORCES have ground their way to the east bank of the Dnieper Iliver opposite Kiev (1) and have readied the river near Krctnen cliug (2) .ind Dnepropetrovsk (3). Other Soviet armies have moved to within 40 miles of Gomel, rajl cen ter, and have advrneed towards Mogilev (5). (International) Senator Says Army Already Is Too Large Wellington, Sept. '_'U (Al') Sen ator Downey (!>.. Calit.) toki the Senate today that the Inah command had 1 tilled to recognize 'he capacity ' oi the American people to create I "a destructive ttir power which might I luive brought (!e.inanv to dust and j to deletil months ago." Predicting "quick suriender or ter ! riblc destiuetion" for the Nazis with j air power's elteciive u.-e. the Caii ; lornian appealed loj- passage ot the j Wheeler bill to delay uduction ot : pre-wtir lathers into an army which lie said "is already too large." With the administration growing more confident hourly ot sufficient voles to return the bill to the mili tary committee. Downey took the li.ior wi'.h a Ail-page speech bristling Willi criticism of the anny's chiefs. SANFORD CONCERN WILL GET AWARD Stiiiford. Sept. 28 — (Al') — The Kdwards Company, divisinii of the Diesel Service ami Aircraft Corpora tion here, will br awarded a servic shir to be tidded to the Arniy-Na\y "K" pennant, officials of the com panv have been notified by Undo - secretary ot War Hobcrt P. Patter son. The company was awarded th< Army-Navy "E" liist November. I produces airplane and oidnanci parts. Westward Surge of Soviet Forces Over Dnieper Is Pending London. Sept. 2!) — (Al') — Investment of K remenclnitf. one of the few remaining escape bridgeheads across the broad Dnieper available to the butter ed Icjrions of Adolf Hitler in their retreat from the I'kraine. appeared imminent today as Red army troops pressed a three-pronged drive on the city from the east, south and north. Capture of this important city on the east bank ot the Dnieper would IKivo the \v;iy !o|- a wotward surge oi Soviet tones aero.-- the l.ooo yartl wide rive:-. carr\with them an obvious threat to (iciman con ce.(ration* on the wr.-'iT:i hank i» hind 1 >uii pr>|>elrovsk tj the south, also uncle." siege by tiie 15ed Army troops. A K^issian cnmininiiiille placed Soviet troops nine miles from K re me n<-h in; in tin- rust, while ellii'i" columns were said to have reached Hie Onicp-r at points norlli and south of the c ity. (>er ntan defense positions were re ported taking a terrific pounding from Soviet uinis ;tnd planes. \Y! ilo tli,. .-it latii :i iinund Kiev, i less tli :i Ji"> r.i.lcs Hie n • rtliwest on t'ae gi .1 lienci !he Dnieper, wa- eom|>aratively utatiCi with the Itussian.- eoiLMiiidat ng their posi tions on the east !>.. •. ; cross Ironi that great (!« n-ian tic to: -e bastion. Ro\ ie; .mi' , tar t '.iie no: tli were plir :ging tor ward .n a movement that threatened the early lollap-e ol the CJenvati's uppei I' .epei line. The Moscow war bulletin recorded the capture ot more than l.uoo vil lages and town- in tl i- drive into White lilissi.i t"Vard •'".e Baltic states and the old i' 'iish . tier. Already the strategic C. •me'-Viteb.-k railway line h within lan^e ol lied army seige guvs. Fifth Army Has Entered Old Pompei Allied Breakthiough Brings Fast Advance; British Push in East Allied Headquarters in North Africa. Sept. 2i>—(Al»)—The Fifth Army has driven the Ger mans from their last mountain positions above Salerno and is pursuing the enemy on the plain within 15 miles of Naples, the tall of which today appeared imminent. The Germans, routed out of the mountain stronghold in six days of heavy fifflitinjj, were in general retreat, leaving the Al lies in complete possession of the Sorrento peninsula, which separates the Hay of Naples from the Gulf of Salerno. American ;intl British troop- (>f I.t.Gen, Murk \V Chirk began the final attack 011 tin* enemy's c\treme Iv strong mountain p<»:lions dawn jesterday ;r ii by noon had r:i|»tuioct Noi-fra. vital i.-nl eevter ;it the be ginning tit in.' o st..l plain leading tu Naples. Casiciiaminare. important na val lia%f 1111 till' southern shore of tlto Bay of Naples, also fell <iui(kly into Allied hands as the Germans withdrew in a flight thai may not tease until they reach the river Ventura tine, well north of Naples. (I11 London, (lie authoritative British Press Association said it had learned thai Fiflli Array forces Itad entered historic I'om *>ei at the loot of smoking Ve suvius and only i:i air miles from the hear! of Naples.) The breakthrough on tile extreme western end ol the front extending across Italy from coast to coast was accompanied by a general advance on the entire Fifth and Eighth Army line. American in .ops on the Fifth Army's r.ght Hank -ir.a.-hed their way si\ mile.-; north ward against crumbling enemy opposition and ■ wetv within seven miles ot Avellina. road and rail junction which is the key to inland communications east of Naples. The captiin of Avettino would constitute a threat to any German eiio-.ts make a r.ew stand any where ea-t o.- south ot Nanlos. The British Fighth Army, meanwhile, wiped out the deep salient on iu western flank, pre viously reported, and established a straight lines lietween San Angelo and Alalfi. while along the Adriatic General Sir Ber nard I.. Montgomery's forces stormed northward from Marg herita di Savoia and ncctipicd the town of Appauetta on the Gulf of Manfrcilonia. due east of the great Foggia airhase. i'»i : sh troop, on the extreme southwest end of the Allied front be gan the tin.il shove against the en emy in the mountain line north and northwest ol Salerno and encoun tered the bitterest kind of lighting at the t< wn of S..la which already had citanged hands many times in recent weeks "! the furious struggle. Truck Fires Prove Fatal To Three Men Including Local Negro Near Oxford I <)\fiird. Sept. •»!!.—< \r»—Two men were burned to death short I \ hcl'nrc noon today H licit two targe trucks collided and burst into ilaities seven miles smith of here on I . S. Highway 15. State lliehwa> Patrolman C. II. Ilyrd Mid. The terrific Ileal of the wreck age prevented passerslty front at tempting to rescue the occupants ! and the bodies were still in the wreckage two hours later. One of the trucks, operated b\ the Associated Transport Company of Itorlington. was be lieved to have been driven bv a man named King. The other, operated by the Vance Truck ing Company of Henderson, was said to have been driven by .Mike .Alston, of Henderson, a i Negro. Witnesses »ald a tire blew out ut! one of the Irucks. causing (lie collision. ! DltlVI K OF Oil. TANKF.R 1 is rxi ii at concord i Concord. Sept Hi'—(AIM- Alvin I'noth. HI. K..niuipoli-. gasoline t;mk I it driver. died licit1 early today of I burns- Mitfcicd hist r.ight in the cx | plosion of in.- and two other trucks alld three large storage tanks hI a i local service station. Four other persons were In the I local hospital for ii.ini ic» received 1 in '.lie blast and fire which followed. The initial explosion occurred a< ! Hooth wa< draining gasoline from . his tank truck into a storage tank ( at the A. U'idenhonse tilling sta tior:. The blast set off explosions | and tires in two other tank trucks, a 2f).(i00 gallon -Image tank and two 17.000-giillwi tank-. All were de t stroved, together with the filling sta ' tion and a building occupied by Dr. 1 D. C. Beard.