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Itettitetson Batly Btspafrh thirtieth yeah '^r.':k>s^,V-;'x^iitv\\;:is,s:K Henderson, north Carolina, Tuesday afternoon, November za, i»43 iru,-,M!'i'k'm!:^M;vvllN'M'" five cents copy BERLIN IN FLAMES AFTER WORST BOMBING —— 1 FDR Urges Veterans' Pay Plan Enaction at Once of Mustering Out Pay Measure Requested Washington, Nov. 2:'»—(A1') — I'resident Roosevelt sent ( i iiijjtcss a formal request 10 day that it do something now about providing mustering out pay. unemployment allowances and social security credit for i]i«-11 and women in uniform. In addition, lie urged the legisla i s in a message I" "cnact wi'.h ( .t delay" a measuiv setting up an unemployment insurance system Iod ine merchant marine. "The Congress will agree, I am sure." Mr. Huosevelt said, "that, this lime, we must have plans .iiiil legislation ready l'«r our re turning veterans instead of wait ing until the last moment. It uill cive notiee to our armed forces that the people hack home do not i»ropose to let them dow II." The steps which lie specifically irum'sted «ii Congress today were (Mil ul a prut*ram of minimum as , lance t«»r those serving their i imtiv which the President outlin cil hi a radio addiess to the n;i 1 n la-1 July. IT.U lime In- omitted, however. . ! 'I' •>al in' made tin n that persi.iis ■ (lie merchant marine be given istei i:ig out pay. !'• ■■ tho.-e in '.lie aimed forces, he : . >i, the iniistei ing out pay .-hould i'i imilorm and reasonable and • •nil lie paid in monthly instal' •i« iiIs. i .idler than in ,i lump sum, tli,. time oi honorable discharge return to inactive duty. Tie i ci executive mentioned no del. :.ile iinoiinl, leaving that for C'on gies> tn determine. For service personnel unable to get lobs within a reasonable lime al*t i they become civ ilians again. Mr. Iliio.evelt said. "lincin|iloy,nent allowances should be pro\ ided un til they can reasonably ire absorbed by private industry." Mess Sergeant Bags Two Jap Dive Bombers Somewhere 111 the South I'acitic ' I vlayed). Nov. 23—(AIM—"I have1 ••tie hiind on :i conk pot and the 1 ' a machine jjim." I'lnis 1110 recipe given l>.v Marine \h • Sgt. Jay Carler, of I'ink Hal!. X who i.s credited with shooting d ••.mi two Japanc.*e dive bombers •• «i serving up a hatch ot hot corn i' ' ifI all within an hour's time. Carter literally "doubles in brass" "y taking charge <>f a galley and i s serving iis a gunner on the ma chine gun which i.^ placed just a lew steps Irom his kitchen door. I was just baking a batch of corn h cad when the signal fur the raid 1 ane." the slightly built, '-<> year old Marine explained. "I quickly shut "H the stove and ran to the gun. There were five Jap planes diving down on us. I just opened up and Asked what he did then. Mess Sgt. let them have it." Cailer replied: "I went back into the galley, lit the stove again, and finished mak ing my corn bread." Mess Sgt. Carter would i>e willing to overlook the whole incident, ex < cpl for one thing. He feels that i> is an unforgivable error to in terrupt a North Carolina man while he's baking corn bread. Death Of 3rd Congressman In 24 Hours Washington, Nov. 'JH (AIM---The Senate today mourned the death "t W. Warren Harbour. New Jersey Republican, opponents <»l Mayor '■'rank Itngiic of Jre.-cy City, mil lionaire thread manufacturer and one-time amateur heavyweight box ing champion. '•'arbour, who was .V». succum'oed heart disease last night after a ' '•rief illness in his Washington h«mc. I "is death followed vvilhin 2-t h»tirs 'he fatal injuring of Senator J. Wil t'rasii iiod tne death limn heart di - ■l-Mlll Ulttul (K. I'.l >. Ill p c CAPTURE OF TRUK THREAT TO JAP MAINLAND AS ACTION IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC moves strategically from one point to another, the Japs Rive indica tion of tightening up for a bitter-end "delaying campaign" while Admiral Halsey and Gen. MacAxthur con tinue their two-pronged offensive efforts. This map brings the various angles of this vital struggle into closer focus; At upper right is Rabaul, to which the Japs arc now reported desperately rushing men and equipment following the disastrous air assaults of U. S. bombers. While a recent Navy Department statement predicted that the Japs would withdraw soon, other sources insist that Rabaul is far loo important to the entire Jap Pacific supply line to lef it go without a struggle:. At the right, the map shows Buka, at the north tip of Bougainville, which is the target for air assault. Truk, Nippon's poweful and strategic air and naval base, would be greatly endangered by the fall of Rabaul and before it is menaced a tough struggle to the southward may be looked for. (International) General Patton Apologizes; RumorThatChiang May Participate In Th reePo we rPa rley London, Nov. 23.—(AP)—The long, awaiting conference between Presi dent Koosevelt. Prime Minister Chur chill ;i: d M rshsill Stalin, which re port.-. from abroad indicate is immi nent. assumed greater potential pro portions today as rumors circulated in London that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might participate. In keeping with the strict official silence which has been maintained in connection with all reports con cerning a possible meeting of the American. Ilritish and Russian states men the rumors concerning Chiang passed without comment. The presence of the Chinese gene ralissimo, however, d o u h t I e s s ( WOlllfl lit' vveli'iiinc - dcinoii-trati: g the determination ,,t |(u. t(iur ,,lV,ls li> collabrate in keeping pi-ace alter Ihc war. regardles. <>| the I.-m 1 that they iirc not ii,iiv riant ilia together , "ii ail Ininls. Keen without C'hiana's participa tion. any meeting between Ii> i veil, ( hurchill, ;.:,cI Stalin, iin<|iies lionally would I'srocd in sc..|X'. and : sisnificance iinythina previously at tempted in the rit-Id el international , diplomacy. Certainly no such meetings "f the chiels «>1 thiee groat governments, invo|\ ina trawl over cii<irnv>H> d;.— lances with attend.nit nsl;s, lias ever been .tlempted la-lore. McJNutt May Resign 11 FDJI Signs Draft Bill Washington. Nov. 2.'(.—(AP) — Paul V. McNutt was described tod y as i "so-steamed up" that lie will quit as manpower commissioner unless President Hoosevelt vetoes the new father draft act. The bill sent to the White House by the Senate on a voice vote .yes terday strips McNutt oi authority over selective service. II also is de signed to slow down or halt the draft nl prew r lathers but official.- indi cated it would not bring about any radical changes in present induction procedures. Mn\'utt tormerly t• »!cl the Senate that the Legislation sabotaged "sound administration". One senator declared lie ii d heard the manpower chiel was "mi steamed ' up about this that lie had indicated I lie would resign if the Pre-idcnt sign.- the bill". McNutt declared in his letter to the Senate thai the bill would "sen WEATHER FOR NORTH C AROLINA. Fair and continued rather r«-t" ously weaken the inanpiwer pro gram" by divorcing milit ry and civilian manpower authority. "The propi>.-.ed amendment is .1 sabotage 11I .sound ;nlmini.slrut 1011," lie wrote. Charles Ray, Star Of Silent Screen, Dies of Infection Hollywood, Nov. T.t - - (AIM — Charles Hay, 52. who gained nation ;il lame 1 • >1 his pin trayal of country I>111> 1 pl<m loirs mi the silent screen, •lied today alter a loiv* illnev The peculiiir naivee with which he tune its an iictur only In lose nm.st of it through an ill-starred venture as a lilm producrr. had been 111 a hosoitil lor five weeks, suffering from a malignant throiit infeelion. The peculiiir naivie with which lie nlayed bucolic roles took the public imagination. and at the height of his success he was reported to be «<• Apology Made After Hitting Sick Soldier During Sicily Battle Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov. 2:'»—< A I*)—It was dis closed officially today that IA. (id). George S. I'atton. Jr., had apologized to all officers and men of the Seventh army for striking a soldier during tin* Si cilian campaign. At (lie simc time. Allied head quarters -aid that correspondents might reveal ali of the fact they knew of the incident which since la.st August ha-s been one of the main subjects of discussion among .soldiers in this theatre. While Tutton was not relieved of bis command of tile Seventh army and was not given a for mal reprimand, be received a castigation from Gen. Dwiglit I). Eisenhower such as has seldom been administered to a com mand of an army. The story is a strange one— the story of a general whose ex cellence is admitted by all. who in the hc.it of battle lost his temper and later admitted lie was wrong and made amends. The ineidcr! consisted of this, ac cording I" eve witnesses: Geieral I'.tton slapped a shell .shocked soldier in a hospital tent hecaus,. lie thought the soldier was shirking his duly. in a lit ol fur.v in which he ex pressed .sympathy for men really wounded but made it plain that he did not belie* e that the soldier be fore wa. m that class, the general struck the youth in the rear of the head with the back of his hand. The soldier fell over .-lightly and the liner <>f hi- helmet which he was wearing fell off and rolled over the Hour <>i the tent. Mopmfi Myst&r L Gilberts Offensive Grows As Marines Land On Abemama Jap Defenders Put Up Fierce Fight at Makin and Tarawa IVail Harbor. Nov. -■'< — (AP)—1'nitwl States Marines have swiftly expanded the futir day-old offensive in the (lil berts hy landing on a third atoll even as Japanese defend ers continued to put up a fierce fight while falling hack from the heaches on the other two. The nru amphibious operation on Ahemamu atoll was announc ed l>.v Admiral Chester \V. Ximilz yesterday, a day after lie diseloseil Saturday's initial lanil ine on Makin and Tarawa, in dicating powerful supporting naval forces remained in the sector—one nearer to Japan's "I'earl Ilarlior" of Truk than it is to America's ow n. 'Hie broadening of the tt'i'dst1 bo il)}} driven into Japan's mid-Pacific outpost del cities wa„. described n six word., which supplied no drt;i:ls is tu time or opposition—"\V(. have landed on Abetnama Atoll"—but ihetv was sullicicnt implications i:i • cporls on M:ikin and Tarawa to make clear tbo battle these is a blomly one. On Tarawa, which is SO miles northwest of Ahcmamu. and on Makin. still farther north. Iiotli pounded from the air and tlic sea prior to the invasion, "our troops have improved their po tions. but are still eiieoiniteriiiR considerable resistance." Such resistance is being n et un der conditions which al'fo;d little natural protection for citlu-r side. It is a matter of conmici- ««• <i'.. Campaign On Gilberts To Shorten Route "iroc island. in the c;iII.< i f • U'CIP floc/M-ilw.rl I... c more direct route toward Japan " He said two principal h .t.^ic ol> lectives were ahead in 11■, . .inpaitpi. Inst lo drive the Japane-i mii: .>i tau maiulaled islands and < ■ "i;<( t.> shor ten by hundred- n I, American supply lines to the ,.ulliw,.t Pacilic. When the M;i; u-an control after batllinc the -t ip m Tarawa Makin. Abama. I! »• ipply |j„iv.' Knox s-iiil. r.ni i..• drawn on a much shorter an dinm e c| • ret t mle. I lu* effect oi tlic shortened supply route, lie -aid. will be the same as adding many ships In the joh oi car ryin/j men and siipolies lo the south wcsl Pacific. Ii v ill enable the ships lo make a quicker "turn around", (bus iiurea-iuu Hie number of trip..' each call make. ■ •• " > .inipuiKii auav t .l.a,aii "in thi* central Pacific nn i ueh Reds Regain initiative j Near Kiev t New Advances Made In the Dnieper Bend And in White Russia j l,<>tul<>ii. Nov. 2:'.— (Al * ( After nine days <>1 desperate ( fijjflitinjr. which Russian nat tlefront dispatches said equal led ill ferocity that which rajted during the seijre ol Staling«u • Red arinv iroops were report <i t..day to have retrained the ini tiative ill stHue sectors Ot the l.nh'e wes tnf Kiev while ham mering out new advances in the , Dnieper bend and in White Itussia. . Buttressed by Heels <» Riant la-Us. the Russians smashed powerful Nazi attacks «*ar Korostyshev. 20 miles east . ol Zhitomir, earpeliiiu the hattie lielcl with Sa/i dead ami wreck iim 80 enemy tanks, a Russian I'ommuniqtie saiti. Besides blast ing this new drive. Soviet forces repulsed two vieiuus thrusts near t'hernyakhov. ten miles I north of /.hiWBUr. apparently aimed at Korosten. key rail city straddling the I.eninsrad-Odessa I and Kiev-Warsaw railways. Field Marshal 1 i ■'/. von Mann slein. wli" launched the It emendoii:. i,ew Na/i onslaught to halt the 1<l' - sian offensive, apparently had nttii t.i show for his pains except the | , itv "1 Zhiotmir and a lew segment* o!' territory t<» the north and ea.-t. 1 T1 e Russian war bulletin anivmnc i in« Ins repul.-e for the third .succes sive day ndieated a possible c -I lapse >'! the savage Na/.i coiintci oi lensive. "Political Football" Of Subsidy Bill • ... I Washington. Nov. — — l-U > Chairman M.nv N- t -n <l>. V , „l the House Labor i ommittee (ic- [ dared today that a powerful ant.- ( v ibsuiv e>million \\a> making .■ »»•'- | litical football" ot the administra tion's cfl"i't> to h id down rood | prices and was selling eonsuniei. "down the river." Her as-ertion. in .i speech pared for delivery cm the floor came ;,s the House approached a vote "I legislation extcndiiiu the lite ol the Commodity Credit Corporation, h i ( banning ronstin or subsidies. 1 a— sage wa> regarded a.- certain. _ I Mrs Norton declared that it tj'1 i measure i- passed with the an - subsidy provision -it will «" nvv.-. to i ou.-i- women to then potent .n | political strength thnn alt the »««• merits advanced by cither the lo public or Democratic party s:niv 1(120 " Eighth Army Repulses German Counterattack Allied Ilc.id<|iia.!crs. .Mucr.-. Nov. 2:?—(AIM A strutin German force lia.s launched a sharp counterattack >n lite llritish Kijjhth Army lines northwest nf Akiiouc. I>tit was heat- l •n back alter two hours "I fitfhting. ! ifflcial reports Iri'in the front dis- i •losed today. Agnotie. in the inland sector of the Kinhth Army front, was cap llired Sunday hv General Sir I5cr nard I,. Montgomery's troips. At the same time, othe, P'auhth \rmy unit* chased the enemy front nore high m ound overlooking Al- ' tedena from the southeast in ruc je.-t inliind mountain sectoi - United States troops attacked and .vioert out a German lac'.vnc-gim I'- :1 :i . '.I; . i .1 ..i-...o, iilvi inland. v ithoii; los,„ !•> thein M'U OS. The Allied communique said that loss ruin fell in the past hours, hut tlic 1».111l«-ri<t \v,i_ still a se.i of mud and rivers ronderins most operation* impossible. <'n tlic Fifth Army Iront. British patrols observed »rv>\ oniot'is "f enemy forces on :hkI near Mount ("amino. immediately southwest of the town ot MiKtiiino. mid Allied ar tillery. alerted, promptly laid down i heavy honihardineut over the en tire /one. Throughout tile central portion <1 the ironI. the Oennans eontinned to apply !he torch to tow lis and vil lage . pear the front, particularly be vnnrt Si'n pieiro which is ;•> r. i< f.wion. RAF Attack Mightiest During War Wreck Heart of City, lO.OCO Arc Estimated Killed and Injured l.niiil'.n. Nov. !!•'!— tAI'l — In tin-heav iest aerial lomiliai ;l 1111 nt in history. tiie KAF er Kulfed 1 leilin last nij-iit with fire and devastating e\|ilo<i\r thundered down ir<<m l.nun bombers. Kir>t hand aiclinl- lion l»r fiiirt'>|H'lici«nl> nl SlMfUiii.hn new — told hi.ii-I rally h.i.v de tin - lion ran thrmiKh tin- heart 111': rilv. wrorUiiiK p>\ • i una ■:»; i-t. Ilni;;. ..ltd I'ureiKii legation. "Itcrliu can nevfr rrcovcr from this blow." tin- Aftontid llillgcn (| uiilcd it., sources as .sa> in;;. Industrial ureas still burning from the heavy raid last Tliurs ilav niyhl were smashed again, strains formations of lii hiiinliers roared ueross the laig lisli channel lo add further weight to the growing Allied ef lorl lo wreek tin- Itcich b> aerial >in. n assault. T! lnnii'.ay f. ■: W.i'iMi . dead aiui i le.l 1'" ill "!lu il!v admitted "a veiy la: Kf '• uiiilicr'' Uillecl and m.iiu ed There were (wo attacks, said another Stockholm correspon dent. The lirst came earlv and when the all-clear was given people swarmed from shelters. They hardly had reached the streets when the sirens called a second time. Thus many w en trapped outside shelters and the casualty toll iiiounte.1. Tlie KAK forces con -led aim•>*' entirely of four-cngincd bombei T: .- Mi.'. : fr. in Hi lav ••.•*..• I.iti alternoon for (lie. (in ncy. they del:\ei<• i . tad; around B p. : Heports reaching Stockholm said tin- might} hlasting of Itcr liu was heavier than even the greatest raid ever launched on demolished Hamburg. The great avalanche >>: lj-i:v.ii landed mm a city part s' 11 was smoldcrirR from the brain ol la.-1 Tll.i Ml:, v All tile districts of the city of .".llOII.OIltl as well as tin* suli urhs were damaged and partic ularly heav> devastation occur led in the center of tile < -.ipit.il near I liter der l.indcn. Alcvaii ,i„.. 1.1... . . — • i - <I<t Hal/ ;,1I(| Priedrichslrass" Ilni,,,' /,,r"'h dispatch |(. stock -.1 i<l Imln Tuoiiiv V '' - V,. re I Berlin raid and .- ib>i<liai which iiu*l dt?d Mo*,,',, " - "n western Gemini I el.utd f»v, 4,1 lev- tr.< <1 <les,. and I'' i li.'i -..(i I) res pi ndr:i n Merlin. CM ij i)V 1 ' l:e. Surd. , i'poi icd. u'e have mf&iiiged one Stockhuli rienl from Berlin. '• n Throughout the t;>ns oi dv.cllin ; ~ workmen's. 'ire. a sreiil niin ii "lent buildings. « crc >if !■ quarters. iM«*liid 1 :1 .11.' v, , Absentee Vote Bill Juggled By Senators W.flmuiton, X —(AIM 'I'lif Sen. it e uncled I he -rn ice ti ■ t - \ ol«. Iiill ;i- though I' wa.» lo.ided wilil j>«• litt! J) •!>' ti |' t id,iv and theie wcri1 ii iiiHi'M' 'ti that 1 iniulit. I»r liaeU 1" the Kleetions (oni mit 1 for > stens.v e io\ ision. IV: .lul Republicans 1 i i\ — inj; to prc-.ent them-clve-; t:i the io|e 'I the soldier-' In'.-t friend Ii ed alt ir\ ehari:o> -it c.ieli nl'inMiot|\e, i they v i angled uvcr the lorin ol i iiieasino de.-ijjned tn it.ake iil>'-nitre i.illotmu pii.-sihlr next _vc.it lot the 10.iKiii,mm mcfliei- ol the uniformed uree-. Senator 1,lie.is (IV. Ill t told i re puller he ij- eitnv meed Republican ile tm to deli.it the litcasiiri' Aitlvuit uttjiekitiu it fioiitiilly. To lit- Senator I'lioiiU-i (I!.. Ill l replied that, u.iltirally, ItcpuhlieiiiK ivaut the sciviee men iind women to rote liecni-e the (SOI' i- colliidetlt it the result. "Hut." lie added, "we don't want ill ol the eoniitiltnlsts. the tellnw tr#i\ I'ler*. and the payroll lioides of ho New Deal to lit- lurni-hed uhson* oo hrlliitx all over the world thq *ui»«f oi pioviditr.! <i " '• 'let ?h<»
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