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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
'Soviiets Repel
Nazii Assaults
At Kursk Line
More Than 10000 Ger
mans Held At Bay
With Heavy Losses
SEVASTOPOL CLEARED
Axis Reports Last Red Sol
diers Either Killed
Or Captured

MOSCOW, Monday, July 6.
-P)-Russian armies fight
ing bitterly against the Kursk
offensive by German armies
estimated at more than $780,
600 men repelled incessant
tank and infantry attacks at
heavy losses to the Nazis yes
terday, the Soviet command
announced officially today as
the Kursk battle went into it's
ninth day.
Just below the Kursk front,
however, the Germans sue
ceeded in driving a wedge in
one of the sectors of the Bel
gorod front despite heavy
losses, the Russians acknow-
lodged.
The Soviet Bureau of In
formation reported that the
Red army in the Kursk fight
ing "repelled uninterrupted enemy
attacks, the enemy sustaining heavy
losses
ION one of the sectors of the
Belgorod direction, despite heavy
losses, the Germans managed to
make a wedge in our defenses,
"the bureaus midnight communi-
que said.
'In a thanking attack our infan-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
WHITEVILLE MAN
DIES IN FLAMES
J. F. Proctor, 81, Burns To
Death In Blazing Tobac-
co Barn Early Sunday

WHITEVILLE, July 5 John
Furney Proctor. 81, was burned tc
death yesterday morning about
o'clock when a tobacco barn on
the premises of G.. M. Singletary
caught fire from an undetermined
origin.
According to witnesses. the cur
ing fire in the barn was supposed
to have been out early in the eve
ming. Mr.. Proctor, with another
helper, was sleeping at the barn
site. The fire was discovered by
the assistant after the building was
almost consumed by the flames.
Mr.. Proctor's body, burned be-
yond recognition, was found in the
doorway of the structure.
The deceased is survived by three
children: Mrs. Frank Ellis of
Freeman, Mrs. Mary Rawls and
Fletcher Proctor, both of White
Vile One brother, Millard Penny
of Wilmington and one sister, Mrs
Florence Batten of Hallsboro.
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at $50 o'clock.
The Rev. G.. M. Singletary con
Quoted the services, and intermen1
followed in the Whiteville GENE
tery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
ALLIES SCORE HITS
ON JAPS IN ATTACK
Fight Off Enemy Intercep.
tors: Shoot Down S
Enemy Craft

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Australia, July 5 -R- Allied
planes directing heavy day and
night attacks on Japanese bases
at Salamaua and Lac, New Guinea
bombed enemy runWays, aircraft
dispersal pens and buildings, scor-
ing direct hits on target areas.
the headquarters of General Doug
las Macarthur announced today.
Fighting off Japanese intercep-
tors, the Allied fliers shot down
five enemy planes and hit and prob
ably destroyed three others. All Al
lied planes returned safely except
one which was lost in collision
with an enemy plane, it was az
ncunced.
Two japanese raids on Port
Moresby, New Guinea, were at
tempted, one by two enemy planes
during the night and the other by
20 Zero type aircraft in the morn
ing. One enemy plane was shot
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
SOLONS TO WATCH
OPA'S HENDERSON
Reported To Have Told
Leon To Trim Current
Requests For Funds

WASHINGTON, July 5-Con-
gress may keep finger on price
control and rationing by limiting
immediate appropriations and re.
quiring the Office of Price Admin
istration to ask for more money
before it can broaden it's present
program.
Members of a Senate appropria-
tions subcommittee were reported
to have instructed Price Adminis-
traitor Leon Henderson to trim his
current requests for funds to the
minimum necessary to carry on
without expanding his operations.
One committee member who ask
ed not to be quoted by name said
the tacit understanding was that
when and if Henderson believed it
had become necessary to extend
rationing or other controls, he
could come back for additional
funds to finance the expansion.
The net effect, it was pointed out,
would be to provide Congress with
a check on any enlargement OF the
present rationing program, cover
ing sugar, gasoline in II eastern
states, automobiles, tires, typewrit-
ers and bicycles.
Henderson has told the commit
tee that rationing of about IS ma
jor groups of items might become
necessary within the next year.
There has been dissatisfaction
with sugar and gasoline rationing
orders which many legislators felt
was reflected in House action cut
ting to $75,0O0,000 the $161, 1000, 900
Henderson requested for operation
of the OPA for the next IL months.
Members said the Senate COM
mittee, considering a plea that it
restore the House cut, had insisted
that Henderson produce figures to
show exactly how many employees
he must have to keep the present
program operating. This done, the
committee was said to be willing to
give him the amount he needed on
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
SUBMARINE SINKS
U. S. RESCUE SHIP
Merchantmen Crowded Be-
yond Capacity With
Victims Torpedoed

AN EAST COAST PORT, July 5.
-CP)-A big American merchant
man, crammed b ey o n Hfeboat
capacity with the survivors OF tWo
torpedoed vessels, was sunk near
the northern coast of South Amer
lea June Is, but not before a cour'
ageous navy off gave up his lie
to fire at the attacking submarine.
Capt. Eric Johansen had halted
the ship to pick up 63 crewmen
adrift in lifeboats, and ITO men IN
all were standing by when the first
toroedo struck at 9:21 p. m.
Eighteen We're lost - including
nine of those who had survived the
previous sinkings, six of the ship
regular crew and three navy gun
ners.
Thirty crewmen, eight gunners
and the rest of the survivors We're
picked up after 1S hours adrift in
overcrowded lifeboats and liferafts.
When the torpedo struck an order
to abando nshiD came Immediately
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
GERMANS REPORT
CONVOY SINKINCS
Claim 9 Ships In Russia
Bound Group Destroyed
By Planes And Subs

BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, July 5-(P)-German planes
and submarines have sunk nine
ships and damaged 10 others in d
Russian-bound convoy which was
attacked yesterday in Arctic
waters, German sources reported
tonight.
The high command first an
nounced that six ships were sunk
and 10 damaged in the air and sea
assault on the convoy between Nor
ways North Cape and Spitzber-
gen.
The Berlin radio later broad
cast a DNB report that one sub
marine which sank one of the ships
was seen later sinking three othec
vessels in the convoy north of
Bear Island, Just below the Arc
tic region.
The high command communique
said the six ships it reported sunk
totaled $4,000 tons, including a T.
00-ton tank-laden American tran
sport. 1t listed four ships of 24,0O0
tons destroyed by planes and the
other two mentioned in the COM
munique as sunk by submarine.
(There was no confirmation OF
these German claims from any
other source, but they recalled
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
E!,|.,ng Hit
!, ,sdp Bombs
a Night Raid
Enemy Begins Nocturnal
| Attacks Following
AVG Successes
TIGERS GET 6 PLANES
Fast American lntercep.
tors Break Up Two
Daylight Raids

CHUNGK1NG, July g. P)
-Sneaking back under cover
Of darkness after American
airmen smashed two daylight
raids in a spectacular wind
up to their AVG career, JAP
anese planes bombed Heng-
yang, Human communications
center, in the early hours yes
terday and today.
Enemy night raids, rare in
five years of war in China,
represented a new and eau
tious phase in Japan's aerial
warfare prompted by defeats
Friday and Saturday when
the Flying Tigers shot down
six planes attempting to at
tack Hengyang and scattered
other enemy formations.
From these fights t h e
American airmen returned to
their bases for the last times
as members of the American
Volunteer Group and those
who elected to remain in
China joined up with the new
" established 23rd Pursuit group
United States Air Forces.
This force, and China's own ex-
panding air force, is expected to
further restrict the operations OF
the Japanese who have bombed
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
WILMINGTON MEN
WATCH SH0RELINE
Group OF Former Yachts
men Convert Craft To
Anti-Sabotage Work

CHARLESTON, S. c.. July s.
Meet the anti sabotage patrol OF
the Sixth Naval District. volun-
teer group of some 400 former
yachtsmen and fishermen who sail
the inlets from Jacksonville. Fla.
to Wilmington, N. c., keeping a
constant dusk to dawn vigil for
fifth columnists.
These civilian boat owners, old
salts who know their home waters
like the palms of their hands, are
members of the Coast Guard Aux
iliary. They serve, without pay,
aboard their own vessels and the
vessels of their friends, doing
man-sized part in the man sized
job of patrolling the coast.
It's their specific job to investi-
gate and report all suspicious craft
and activities. Is their work inn
portant? The answer to that lies
in the now established fact that
Axis submarines have landed sa.
boteurs, armed with devastating
explosives, on our Atlantic coast.
The 400 members of the Sixth
District Auxiliary own a total Of
about $50 boats. The reason there
are more members than boats i,
that, in some cases, two or moro
members own boat in partner
ship. The craft range in size from
Is feet to 100 feet; some are
swanky cruisers, some battered
shrimpers; some cost $1,000, soma
upwards of $4,000.
From this array of boats, mostly
pleasure craft, the Coast Guard
has selected rs vessels for actua!
patrol duty in the Sixth Distric:.
These boats have been painted bat
tleship gray and marked with the
Identifying Letters "C.G.A."
The owners of the rs selected
craft usually 60 out with their YES.
sells, and the other 325 auxiliary
members serve as the crews.
When the boats are used for duty
a Coast Guardsman is assigned to
each vessel. Uncle Sam pays for
the gasoline, maintains the craft.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06

CAIRO, July 5-R-His shaggy
gray hair powdered with the dust
of the desert, Master Sergeant
George L. Seastrom, U. S. A.
strolled int -othe American office
here recentlq, saluted and ad
dressed himself to officers who
had been worrying over his where
abouts for weeks and unofficially
had given him up for lost.
HELL" said the sarge, that's
nothing to be concerned about.
Everybody was relieved, for the
lanky, raw-boned professional SOL
dier, 20 years in the army, is one
of the best of the United States
tank experts that have been help
ing the British with their Alrefl'
caa-made models. The officers lis
tened eagerly to his story
Not all of it was made public
for example how it happened thai
seastrom's "dog tag" ddentifica'
ton disc) had been found in the
desert by the British and turned
over to American authorities on
June IS. Seastrom then had been
in the desert on his own for one
month, nursing the tank eglnes
he has come to love like babies.
After the tag had been turn
in, usually an ominous sign. mes
sages to the rowing technician had
gone unanswered and Seastrom
was unofficially considered o t..
Meanwhile Seastrom was deep IN
the western desert, helping n e
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
Holiday
|Toll Reaches
|24l In Nation
Far Fewer Than When 4th
Celebrated In Peace
Time Conditions
CALIFORNIA LEADS
Is Die In Traffic Acct
dents With I More
From Other Causes
Nv The Associated Press

Rv The Associated Press
AS the Fourth of July
weekend drew to a close last
night (Sun) the nation count
ed it's dead from violent
causes at 241-far fewer than
when Independence day was
celebrated with few restrlc-
tions in the years of peace.
Last years toll of lives for
a three-day weekend, Friday
through Sunday, was 628, Of
which 1884 were traffic VIC
tins.
Death took 124 lives on the
country's highways yesterday
and Saturday, while Ct per:
sons were drowned and 81
died in other forms of vlol'
Eence. There were no fireworks
victims reported.
The nationwide campaign
to conserve tires and tht
gasoline shortage along the easter
Iseaboard were the chief reasons 10
a general decrease in traffic an
fatalities.
Although many more America
families passed the holidays at nom
|thap in previous years, there Wer
| few home accidents reported. Fec
/ eral restrictions on pyrotechnlc Oils
5plays in coastal areas and stflcti
ENFORCED local safety laws accounte'
For the lack of fireworks victims.
total of IS traffic victims were
rmInted in California, which far out
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
Synthetic Rubber Won't Cost
AS Much As Officials Figured

Board official said.
Goodyear brought the first unit
of the government-financed syn
thetic plants into production in
May and Firestone the second in
June. United States rubber is
scheduled to turn out Buna S in
August, and B. F. Goodrich in
November. The latter firm h S
had small privately-f n a d
plant in operation some time with
1,500 tons monthly capacity.
AS the program now stands,
aboutthree-fourths of the syn
thetic rubber is to come from use
of petroleum base and the re-
mainder from use Of alcohol.
However, the corn belt, supply
ing grain for alcohol, may play
an even greater part in beating the
rubber shortage.
A 2OO.OOO-ton increase in the pro-
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06

From Moscow comes report that the Germans have
opened drive in the Belgorod Volchansk sector
north of Kharkov adding fourth prong to the Naz at
tack the southern Russian front. At Kursk top
ROW., massive tank battle in progress Russians
said the Germans unable to advance there in the
face of Soviets said the Nazs made
breaks in the Red lines at Vochansk but later
thrown back to their original positions. Meanwhile, the
Nazs claimed break through front nearly 1856
miles broad presumably from Kursk southwark to an
area below Kharkov Germans claimed final capture of
Sevastapo but lastdch Russians continued to fight in
the streets there.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06

gram is under discussion. Farm
minded senators are backing leg
islation to assure that this expaa-
sion would call for use of grain.
The War Production Boards views
may be disclosed tomorrow when
Chairman Donald Nelson is to dis
cuss this bill before an agriculture
subcommittee headed by Senator
Gillette D-Iowa).
Lowered cost estimates Of the
synthetic program result in part
from what WPB calls the strip
teasing of specifications-the SUBJ
stitution of cheaper and m e
plentiful materials for steel plates,
copper and other scarce metals in
plant onstruction-and in part
from the natural reduction of cost
per ton because of mass produc-
ton.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
ROBERTS PREDICTS
AXIS WILL NOT WIN
Jurist Declares 28 Ma
tions Pledged To Fight
Until Victory

PHILADELPHIA. July 5-tRAA
defeat for the United Nations
"would mean a world of terror
and tragedy" Justice owen ].
Roberts of the Supreme court said
today.
"It would mean an insane world
where a few men at the top of the
heap would live out their hysteri-
cal lives trampling the millions
under their heels" he said in an
address prepared for delivery in
connection with a concert of the
CHS summer symphony program.
But" he asserted, ''the Axis
will not win. Twenty-eight peoples,
on every continent, have signed a
solemn agreement with their blood
pledging to fight on until freedom
and sanity return to tired earth. -
Success, the jurist said, will be
achieved only if the United Ma
tions remain united, in war and
in peace.
Once let the tide of nationalistic
prejudice and suspicion SWEEP
over us. and we are lost to the
enemy" he continued. HE sees
that as clearly as we must. That
is why the Axis strives always to
split our unity asunder. That is
Why those who criticize Britain
for her mistakes, without knowing
all the facts, are endangering their
lives and our lives as we'll. That is
why, whatever some of us may
have thought of the Soviet phil.
lCantinued an Pare THREE. Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
McNary Backs F. D. RS
Surplus Wheat Proposals

about 80 cents bushel instead o1
the parity price of $1.34.
McNary, an influential member
of the senate's farm bloc, pre-.
dicted that house opposition to a
senate-approved farm bill authoriz.
ing the sale of up to 125, ,0OO
bushels of wheat at the lower price
would collapse in the face of the
presidents stand.
II think that when the first op-
portunity arises, the house will re-
verse itself and vote for the senate
amendment which the president
SUPPORTS" McNary told the re-
porters.
The president said Friday it was
essential that the government be
permitted to sell grain at low
prices for feeding purposes if the
armed forces and the civilian pop
ulation were to be assured of ade-
quate supplies of pork, beef. milk,
chickens and eggs at prizes that
would not break through present
ceilings or require excessive sub
sides.
The grain sale provision h S
been the chief major point of con-
troversy in the senate and house
handling of the regular $3.50, 900, 900
agriculture department appropria-
tions bill. The department has been
without funds since June 80, when
the old fiscal year ended without
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
British Force
Axis Retreat
In Desert War
Furious Attacks By Rein
forced Allies Push
Enemy Back
SUFFER HEAVY LOSS
Germans Lose Consider
able In Men And In
Heavy Equipment

CAIRO, July 5. - R -
Furious attacks by the rein
forced British army of the
Nile forced the Germans and
Italians from their previous
stabilized positions in the FL
Alamein sector 70 miles west
Of Alexandria yesterday after
the Axis had suffered consid-
cradle losses in men and
heavy equipment.
The Ger ans retreated
locally to the northwest after
being pounded by heavy guns,
constantly strafed and bomb.
ed by the RAF and South
African air force and pressed
relentlessly by bayonet-wield-
ing New Zealand Indians and
British troops.
All British lines in the 35.
mile bottleneck between tho
Mediterranean and the Cat.
tara depression held firmly,
and the men of Gen. Sir
Claude Auchinleck pressed their
counter-attack with vigor through
the day and night, front line dis.
patches said.
Throughout the long blistering
day of vigorous fighting, it was the
British who were doing all the at
tacking yesterday and the Axis
which was doing the defending.
| The German retreat was not a
general withdrawal, but the fact
that all the fighting was west and
southwest of Ell Alanein was con-
sideTed significant by military eX-
| perts at this capital, 100 miles from
the front line.
The general headquarters COM
munique said:
"Our land forces continued to at.
| tack the enemy yesterday In the
Ell Alamein area. Enemy armor
was forced to withdraw from a ridge
to the south of Ell Alamein after a
number Of enemy tanks had been
knocked out. Our air forces main
tanned a maximum effort against
the enemy, and landing grounds in
the Ell Daba area (35 miles wesU
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
With 2 Major Plants In
Production Program Will
Not Need Maximum Fund

WASHINGTON, July s. |R -
With two major plants in produc-
tio.1, government officials have dis
covered that making synthetic rub
ber won't cost as much as they
thought it would.
Money is no object in the 800,-
000-tons-a-year program, but rub
Der coordinator Arthur B. Newhall
was pleased nevertheless today to
report that the program probably
would not require all the $780,
100000 which Congress authorized
for it.
I'm fact, it may cost consider
ably less" the War Production
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
SENDS
MESSAGE TO FDR
Other Latin-American Ma
tions Send independence
| Day Dispatches
lRy The Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON - President Man
uel Avila Camacho, Mevico, in al
independence Day message te
president Roosevelt said duty
fighting for continued existence,
democracy and other ideals ARE
today consolidating our relations
and confirming us in the hope of
common victory
Text message published by State
department.:
His EXce1lency,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States OF
America.
Washington:
On the anniversary of the pollt'
ical emancipation of the United
States, | wish to make known tc
your Excellency the sentiments Of
1eep friendship with which the
government and the people of Mex
co join in the stern emotion O
your country in celebrating lts
Independence this year. The state
of war in which we now are in glves
particularly solemn significance
o this commemoration. Born fol
lrebty, the daring people of the
United States has made itself the
ardent champion of the cause o.
nonor and justice. To the tlei
which bind us there is to be added
On this Fourth of July, the circum
stance that history has placed be
Gre us one and the same noble
1uty; that Of fighting for the con
anued existence of democracy
stklng up the attack against tbs
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
Ship Sinkings Last Week
Cost At Least 273 Lives
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


At least 273 seamen and passen-
gers were lost in enemy submarine
attacks on Allied and neutral mer-
chant vessels in the western Allan
tic area last week, but more than
400 others were rescued and 80
were reported missing.
Meanwhile, the unofficial Assocl-
ated Press tabulation of United and
neutral nations ship losses in the
Atlantic and adjacent waters since
Americas entry into the war went
up yesterday to 339 with the re-
ported torpedoing of big Amerl-
can merchantmen off South Amerl-
ca, and the sinking of a smaller
American vessel off the northern
coast of the Dominican republic.
The large United States ship was
iammed beyond lifeboat capacity
with survivors of two torpedoed
vessels when she was sunk. Cap
tain Eric Johansen, first officer
George Ceilings of New York, the
radio man and a Navy officer went
down with the ship. Eighteen OF a
shipload of 11O were lost.
Second Officer Harlan Soeten OF
Philadelphia, one of the survivors,
said the Naval officer, Lieutenant
(JG) Kammerer of Philadelphia,
managed to fire three shots at the
sub before he was carried under
with the ship.
Fourteen survivors, including the
captain, were landed recently at
Cuidad Trijillo, Dominican repub-
lie. from the smaller United States
ship, the Norlandia. Eight other
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
Russia's Caucasian Oil
Fields Produce Greater
Amount Than Anticipated

MOSCOW, July 5.-(R-Rus-
sia's central Caucasian oil fields
in June produced "scores of
thousands Of tons" in excess of
their charted national defense
program, lass said today. Out
put was up sharply over May.
Besides supplying the Russian
military uninterruptedly, the
wells also have produced suf-
ficient quantities for mechan-
lied farming the agency said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06

WASHINGTON, July 5-lR-Sen-
ate Republican leader McNary
(Ore) backed today President
Roosevelt's demand that Congress
permit the government to sell sur
plus wheat for livestock feed at
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
Sergeant Returns TOBaSe
After Many Feats Of Skill

British with their tanks and win
ming praise for valorous acts over
and above the line of his technical
duty.
During one battle, British crew
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-07-06
WEATHER

FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA - Continued
warm warm Monday with scattered thunder
showers in mountains.
erdil meteorological data for the "a hours
S t:5o p. m. yesterdays:
LANTERN STANDARD TIME)
Nby L. S. Weather Bureau)
1.,n Temperatures:
3s 'Tg S.,e d. m. 70; 7:3G a. m. IA; 80 p. m
70 NV n,". p m. 30; maximum SO; minimum
mean 70; normal 7s.
1.3h Humidity:
81, 20 d. M 81: 7:3O a. m. SO; 1:30 p. m.
'' '''O p. m rs.
Tot, Precipitation:
y m oo iof the "a hours ending 1880
1av IS wv inches; total since the first
me month, III inches.
jFro,. IlDES FOR TODAY:
I. s me me Tide Tables published by
0oaS' and Geodetic Survey):
Wilmington High Low
Mssonboro 1- 4:36p. 11:47p
0'o Inlet ------- 2:ooa. s:1Oa
Pisa. SOFA: sunset 727p: moonriss
'' moonse' l;33p. D' '''''''' ''>
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