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Hettlterjsott Batly Btspafrij THIRTIETH year l':;as,:|> wire service 01 TIIK ASSOCIATED 1'ItKSS. HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 8, 1943 l>UULISIIi:i> KVKitY AI'TKUNOU.N KXCKI'T SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Expect Nazis To Abandon Gaeta Port Eighth Army Takes Sincllo River and Advances on Sangro Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nc\. H—(AD—Repeated explosions in Gaeta indicated the Germans were preparing to abandon that port 70 miles 5011th of Koine as Allied headquarters announced today an-| other mile train by Americans of tlie Kiftli Army in a push which threatened to short-circuit the coastal mountains where the enemy had anchored! a new defense line. Tin* IJritisli FiRhth Army, su ei-piiiR five miles ahead along the Adriatic coast aRainst fierce rt'^iUlirr. tuok possession of the entire length of the STnello river and advanced on the SaiiRro river, Uii' next natural barrier in the area. ('.i|il!iriiiK Scerni, C'asalbordino :>uil ( arnnchio, Gissi and Saii'ito, Gfinr.il Sir licrnard L. Montgomery's veteran outtit look over the entiie stretch i»l lateral rnad running inland Horn Vasto and at some plan were within seven miles of tlw» Sangro where tlie Germans apj».i: • ntly were preparing a new stand. in the central portion of the Fifth Army's front. M. Cien. .M.irk \V. ('lark's Americans | drove ahead over the roughest country of the whole Allied line tn achieve a Rain of one mile ami capture t'alabritto. Cains ol several miles also were registered beyond Isernia almiR the road from FoRRia to llmnc across the Abru/.zi mountains. This lirst anniversary of the Allied landings in French North Africa found the Allies delivering .«tinnger blows than ever to the German.-. along I'll rope's southern front aixl the enemy displaying more weaknesses than ever. The German desperation over inability to hold back the unspectacular but relentless tide was reflected not only in the rush to dismantle the port of (•acta I <ut also, officers here believe, in the bombings of Vatican City on Friday nifiht—an act which Allied headquarters emphatically disavowed. Tic view here was that this >"":n». which the German radio! iiy blamed <«n the Allies, and i .y tiTical appeals of the German 'i ideasts were an effort to bolster morale. Eight Deaths In State Due To Violence Nov. I!.—(AP)—Violence r i '•(! :it least eight (lentils in North C.ii >|ina during the week-end. Il'ilirrt Little of Wilson county was k Med hi an accident on a Wilson street in which his light truck and a i parked trailer truck were involved. | •T irol) Lee Knight, 23, of near | Bviadwa.v was fatally injured in an an!<.!ii.>t>ilc> accident near Raleigh I and died in a hospital there two linn is later. Mary Ann Allen, 5 year old daugh- j tci o (Mr. and Mrs. .James Harvey \ Allen Allen of lirbadway, route I, w.is killed instantly in an automobile accident near Sanford. li. McCall, '1 his sister Genldene, | 5. and Mrs. Nelson Cannes, about 35, > wi re instantly killed in an autonio- | bile accident ten miles from Brevard i the Asheville highway. Carrnes, widower of the dead woman, ami I Mr. and Mrs. 1), lias McCall. parent <>f the dead children, suffered minor injuries. | Cleveland M. Whitnant. 55 years old Asheville mechanic, died while repairing a tire near Morganton, and ii corner's jury decided that his death wa; from a heart attack "caused by violence at the hands of a party of live men". Two sons of the dead man testified that five men, two of them armed, threatened and ifiolcsted their father while he was repairing the tire. » Mrs. Dora Philmcon. 78. died in :i Shelby hospital after suffering a t 11 at her home in King's Mountain. Cotton Prices Are Mixed New York. Nov. H. (AP)- CotIon futures (old contracts) opened live to ir> cents a bale higher. Noon values were five cents a bale lower to ten cents higher, Oecembet March 111.38, and May 19.18. Previous Close Open December . ... 19.80 19.82 March 19.39 10-4t M, . 19.15 19.17 18.97 19.00 KONOTOP • • CHIBNIOOV BR KHA«KOV«{ „ P01TAVA \ * Kiev Falls to Reds BERLIN RADIO admitted that Kiev (1), third largest city in Russia, had falletv -to Soviet Army units. The report said it "had been evacuated in the face ol terrific assaults." Other Russian forces arc mopping up between the Dnicrcr River (2) and the Black Sea. At the northern end of-the line (3) many towns and villages were taken in the Novel area. {International) Bomber Raid On Germany In Daylight Lone German Plane Wrecks Dance Hall In London District London, Nov. 8— (AP) — Formations of Allied aircraft rode out across the English channel today to continue an offensive w h i c h American! heavy bombers sustained yes-! terday by carrying out their| third raid on Germany in five; days and their first without the! loss of :i single bomber. Coastal observers said the daylight attacking forces appeared to be . composed chiefly of medium bomb-1 ers. which have been used largely | at hitting at Nazi airfields and other j military targets in France and the | L*>w Countries. The bombers were accompan- | icd by s\varms of fighter planes, i The daylight offensive follow- J cd night attacks by the KAK's speedy Mosquito bombers oil ob- : jectives in western Germany ] and a bombing of Abbeville airfield in France by intruder patrols and mine laying operations. The air ministry said one bomber ] and one fighter were lost in the nocturnal forays. In one of the most disastrous air attacks on Knglaud for months, a lone German plane bombed a London suburban district last night, wrecking a crowded dance hall and causing many casualties. A witness described the scene as "like a battlefield" with the dead and injured lying in streets littered with broken glass, timber and bricks. Two emergency mortuaries were set tip. The bodies of many dancers were among those recovered from tinwreckage of the dance hall. Many of the couples were Allied service men and their girls friends. Estimates On Cotton Crop Are Reduced Washington. Nov. 8.—(AC) -The Agriculture Department today esti-i mated this year's cotton crop at II,442.110(1 bales of 500 pounds each, I based on conditions prevailing No-' vernber 1. A month ago conditions indicated a crop of 11,478,000 bales. Production was 12,824,000 bales last year, and the average crop in the ten year.i 11)42 to I'III was 12.474.000 bales. The Census llureau reported that ; 0.0(51.252 running bales of cotton of this year's growth, counting rourio as half bales and excluding (inters. ; had been ginned to November i, compared with 0.713.354 bales a ; year ago. and 7,081.157 two years j ago. "Some reductions from production in prospect on October I are indieat- I ed for North Carolina. Tennessee, and Missouri where deterioration ' resulted fro«i killing frost during mid-October," the crop reporting I beard said. REDS NEAR RUMANIAN BORDER ★ ★★★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★ | /?at7 Wage Boosts Favored Vltal Kaii Recommend increase Of 4-10 Cents Presidential Board And Vinson Agree; Expect Union Rejection Washington, Nov. H—(AP) —Wage increases ranging from four to ten cents an hour for more than a million railroad employees were recommended today by a special presidential board and accepted by Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson. but tlie 15 non-operating unions are expected to reject the proposal. The unions, which originally asked a Hat !0 rents an hour and were awarded a general 8 cents hike h.v a previous board, only to have Vinson interpose a veto, now are taking a strike vote and also are relying heavily on a congressional resolution to enforce the eight cent award. The railroads have agreed to pay that amount. The resolution sponsored by i Senator Truman (D.. Mo.) would, in effect, declare Vinson's interpretation of the eight-cent award to be erroneous and permit the railroads to pay it. Union officials would Viot comment for publication immediately on the situation. Vinson said today he would allow also a slight upward revision of the recent four-cent award to operating railroad employees in certain brackets. Operating personnel have rejected the four-cent increase and like their non-operating fellow workers, arc taking a strike vote in connection with the award. The proposed non-operating increases would become effective November I!). The originally proposed eighteen! increase—which the carriers agreed to—would have increased railroad payrolls $204.0110.000 a year. The new recommendation is expected to cost at least a,s much. KingEmanuele Keeps Throne For Present Italian Government Headquarters in Southern Italy. Nov. 8.—(AP)— King Vitlorie "Knianuele," Italy's monarch for 21 years of Fascism, has apparently saved his throne for the moment, but few are willing to bet that be can hold on to the crown after Home is freed. The best information is thai the from his opponents on the grounds king has won a temporary reprive that a political truce is necessary until Home is liber, ted and other political leaders can have a voicc in the government. The king's grandson, the six year old Prince of Naples, previously had been mentioned as a possible successor to the throne alter political le: tiers were said to have refused to come into coalition government unless the king abdicated. Many Stocks Liquidated New York, Nov. II.— (AP)—Slocks tumbled tin heavy volume in today's market as a revival of peace psychology touched off liquidation in virtually all departments. Conspicuous on the retreat were American Distilling, Chrysler. Goodrich. U. S. Rubber, Douglas Aircraft. United Aircraft. Western Union. Standard Oil of New Jersey, DuPont. Sears Roebuck, J. I. Case and Pepsi-Cola. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Cloudy with rain this afternoon. Partly cloudy and colder tonight with rain east portion this c\ciilng. Hying H)rtress Formation on Way to Schweinfurt Packed tisht for protection, a largo formation of I', s. Flying Fortresses pass over 'lie heads of watchers alone the l.HRlish Coast and head for the ureal industrial city of Sehwer.ifnrt. Germany. The tarcct was a ball-bearing plant that supplied half the Nazi war machine with the vital mechanism. The Yank raiders >iit the target some time later with almost five hundred toils of bombs, wrecking it completely. I'. S. Army Air Forces photo from News of the Day Ncwsreel. (International) Delegates To Sign Relief Agreement Of United Nations Fights Nazis a t ABOVE IS ONE of the first picture* of General Pavono, leader of the Republican Army in Italy. This group is playing an important part fighting side by side with the Allied armica. tlnteriiational) Liquor Tax Again Voted To $10 Gallon • I Washington. NOV. 8—(AIM— I ('hanging its mind again, the House Ways and Means Committer voted today to boost the liquor tax to SHI a gallon, against a present tax of SB. The $1(1 lax would mean $2.50 a ! quart, or 12.5 cents a drink for 100 , proof liquor, figuring 80 drinks to i the gallon. OH again and on again on the j liquor levy, the committee previous- | l.v had jumped the tax to $10, cut i it back lo $8, and now has put it ! at $10 again. By the 6fi 2 3 ix-rcent jump, the ' committee expects to obtain $487.- ' 000.000 additional revenue annti-1 ally. Today's action raising the rale | from $8 to $10 put about $243,000.- i 000 into the new general revenue i bill to about $2,250,000,000. against measure, jumping the total in the an administration request for $!<>.-! 500.000,000. Committee njfmbers said they hope lo report the new revenue bill to (he House by Thursday with de- 1 bate to begin on tbe floor probably I next Monday. . t I. Scheduled Election Of Director General; Lehman Is Suggested Washington, Nov. 8—(Al) —At noon tomorrow the White House will be host to 4-1 international ileli'tfates as they sign an agreement for the first United Nations project to deal with the wake of World War II. Representatives — including some foreign ministers—"t 43 nations and the French Committee nl National Liberation will sign the United Natinos relief and rehabilitation agreement on behalf of their governments. The first organized venture by the t'nited Nations. t'NRRA. is designed to help starving and jobless war victims first to survive anil then to regain their sclfsuffieieney. Wednesday morning the delegates will leave on a specail train for Altantie City, where the first meeting of tlie new administration's council will start. At Atlantic City the delegates will elect a director general for t'NRRA. and President Roosevelt has indieated this country Mould nominate Herbert II. I.elinian, former head of the t'nitcit Stales Offiee of Foreign ISclief and Hehabilitation and onetime governor of New York. It it works. ITNRIiA may set precedence of cooperation and accomplishment tor other United Nations projects to follow. Pin sician Sa\ s No Burned I fairs On DcMarignv Nassau, Vov. J!.—(Al*)—A former prison physician swore today that he found no burned or singed hairs on Allied DeiWarignv .I.ily in. two days after Sir Henry O;ikos was slain. Dr. Ulrich Obersarth testified at DcMarigny's trial on a chary*- that he murdered his millionaire father-inlaw. C'rown witnesses have contended that singed and curled hairs were discovered on DeMarigny's binds and arms on .Inly U and that they were evidence lie might have been present when Sir llarry was bludgeoned and burned to death in a bedroom of his seaside estate. Dr. Obersarth. now district merieal officer at the llaha nas hospital, was tin Bahamas prison physician .Inly 9. the day of the DcMarigny's ,arrest. He was the first witness of the fourth and probably the final week of the trial. lie testified that lie examined DcMarginy's body jit the prison .July 10. and fotind no signs of burned or singed hairs or of reddening of the skin. ••If three out of every ten hairs had been affccted by the heat." asked Associate Defense Council W. K. A. Callender. "would you have observed them with a naked eye examination''" "If they actually were burned. I believe I would have." said Obersarth. emphasizing that 'i .nade my examination with the naked eye". Father-Draft Question Is Deadlocked Washington. Nov. it—(AP)—The first meeting of Senate and House conferees on legislation to delay the furthci dratting ot pre-Pcarl Harijor lathers ended in a deadlock today. The conference broke up after failure to reach agreement on a House provision stripping War Manpower Commission Chairman Paui V. McNuU ol authority over the Selective Service. Senator Johnson (!->.. Colo.) reported. "We never got arounu to tiie provision in the House bill that would put fathers al the bottom of the draft list." Johnson said, "because the Senate conferee^ would not agree to the provision th.it would direct the President to delegate :• 1 i Selective Service authority t>> .Major General I.. H. Hershey. "Sonic '•! the Senators tool; (lie position ih.it 'his provision would remove anv authority the Presid'nt now has over Selective Service.'* .No one knew when a .second conference >vould be held. Medical Men Visit Bragg Fori Itragg. Nov. K. Three member* of the board appointed by the Secretary of War to serve as nodical consultants for the Army visited Fort Bragg this week to review work being carried on here by the Coinmission on acute Inspiratory Diseases. Board members conducting the review here were Dr. Alphonsc It. Doches of Columbia University, NewYork; Dr. Osvv rd T. Avery of the Rockefeller Institute. New York: and Dr. !■'. William Cioodpasture ol Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Tcnn. Tliev were accompanied by Dr. Thomas Francis, ,lr. ol the University ot Michigan. Director of the Commission ot Influenza, and Di Colin M MacLoed ol Wevv Vork'Utiivcrs.ly Medical School. Director »l the Commission on Pueumonial Dr. .lohn H. I^pgle of II rvard University, who l\Jtuls the commission working here, Wont over the project with the visitors. In his work here Dr. Dtn^fe is jheing agisted «>y nine doctors, all author.ties in res Junction Is Taken German Resistance In Dnieper Bend Is Threatened by Drive London. Nov. S—(AP)—The Red army was rolling .swiftly toward the Rumanian border today after taking the vital rail junction of Fastov. '■)■> miles southwest of captured Kiev, and thus snapping the principal rail link between (lernian forces in the north Ukraine and the Nazis -till hattlin^ at Ivrivoi Iioy. A Reuters dispatch Iron) Moscow the Kii." lans already had driven ten miles -in beyond Ka-'.ov atld were engaged in heavy lighting w.tn Nazi armored reserves rushed i".to 'he breach. The mighty push, moving along al a speed til' I mites a day. threatened tit tumble Nazi resistance in the Dnieper bend and raised the possibility <11 trapping huge numbers ol' the beleaguered Germans. Seizing t:a:iiloads «»I undamaged Gei iv,an e(|Ui|io;ciit at Kastm . winis-: capture was hailed in Moscow win 124 gun salvia. Ru-sian tanks and infantry unit.- also were reported to have swept iip Vli tow- s and hamlets as they lunged toward Rumania, one "I th». Nazi satellites which Premie: Josef Stalin aid Saturday wa.> "anxious to imd a way" out of the war. In the Crimea, far to the southeast, the Russians said they killed 1.000 Germans in repulsing counter attacks on their bridgeheads near Kerch and Severally improved their positions in that area. German broadcasts said the Russians were bringing up infantry reinforcements 011 the Perokop isthmus. northwestern gateway to the peninsula. The 26th anniversary of the Soviet revolutions also saw the Red army driv ins to within 45 miles or tin- Latvian and old Polish borders on :lit. iioithccni...I front, where a Hu-s in com::ii:ni(|.it. >;.id the Nazis were using "one position alter another" we.-t a:.d s'lithwest of Novel. The Berlin radio, admitting that the Soviet smash southwest of Kiev had forced the Germans "tn lake up new lines." estimated that the Russians were using mure than .">0.0(10 troops in that area, while the Nazi-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau, declaring that German blnod was flow ing as never before. said the attacks beyond Kiev had made the Germans* position "even more dangerous." Automobile-Train W reek Kills One, Injures Another I la 111 a \ . Nn H.—(AP)—Collision •'I «iti automobile and ;t southbound Atlantic Coast Lino train .it a crossing on the outskirts of Halifax today killed me occupant of the antonnibilc, John II Brown, and critically injured another, James K. fit llm CJrilfin was taken to a Itoanokc Kapids hospital. juratory diseases. While at Kort HraR.14 tho visitors al-'i conlei red a! .some length with Paigadier General John T. Kc noriy. Commanding General o| Kerf Mr gu; !"• 1 tardier General Henry C. Coburn, Jr., Post Surgeon, nnd Colonel G. D. Clmnn. Commanding Officer. Station I tospital. Rabau) Defense So Far Cost Japs Twelve Ships Southwest Pacilic Allied Headquarters, Nov. 8. — (AP) — Aerial smashes against warship* and cargo vessels striving to reinforce the key Japanese base of Habaul on New ilritmn have cost the enemy probably twelve warships sunk or damaged thus far in the Hismack mm. A probable torpedo hit was scored on a heavy Japanese cruiser in Simpson harbor at Kabaul by Australian flown Hcauforts Frid v evening, a day after the first master blow in which aerial bombs sank two cruisers and damaged seven more plus two destroyers. In addition, a light Japanese cruiser and a destroyer tender were attacked by n'ght in New Irland j waters. tout with undi>eernible ef' led. and Mitchell bombers front j Admiral William H. Halsey's 13«l\ ! «ir force sank or damaged three ; small roast I vessels ;md 12 toargca • »fI southern Hougain\ iHe. Four more i barges were destroyed off CS'cvv Gui| n;i by light surface craft. ! Again Vanakanau airdrome at Hn( haul wn- bombed. General MaeAri thnr said medium Hints made a night I sweep over the oft-bl sted field, ! starting lar,V fires in fuel storage ,areas. j Ground operations on Bougainville i and on Choiseul isi.ind '<(• miles away i apparently are progressing f ..vorable, I a spokesman for General MacArthur I said, adding that "it's up to the .Japa» nesc to make the next move '.
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