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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Prices Have Risen Here
DESPITE OPA'S Control

Despite the announcement by
Prentiss Brown as he rendered his
resignation as OPA administrator
that the upward trend in the cost
of living has been halted, sur
vey Thursday night disclosed that
food prices in Wilmington have
risen nearly 100 per cent in the
past three years.
While no official figures were
available, check on grocery adj
vertisements in newspapers of Oc-
tober, 1910, as compared to those
appearing in publications this
month, reveal that a large increase
in the retail price Of all food items
has been effected.
For example: round steak, a
common item on nearly every
housewives table before rationing,
sold for 80 cents a pound three
years ago. Today, if one is for
tunate enough to locate a pound
of the elusive delicacy, it will cost
in the neighborhood of so cents.
Not only in the food line has a
general price rise been noted. As
evidenced by the advertisements,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Kirke Simpson Says:
Gem1ansAppearP Prepared
To Flee Northwest Russia

German military experts were
said to predict a new Russian at
lack in the Leningrad area inte-
grated with a renewed westward
push from Newell, $50 miles south
of Pskov. The reports to Sweden
added that Estonians had been
warned by the Nazis of an ap-
preaching national emergency"
There seems no question that
the first onslaughts OF the third
Russian winter offensive, into
which the spring summer fall
drive from the Volga to the Dniep-
er is merging, will come along
the Observation-Disclosures front
in the north. With the Newell com.
munications keystone lost, the
whole German left flank to the
Baltic is potentially in as tight
trap as are Nazi forces in the
Dnieper bulge and the Crimea.
That front has seemed badly
over extended. 1t is dominated by
two critical communications gate.
CONTINUED on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
walter Lippmann SAYS:
Connally Post War Bill
Has Many Sound Ideals

tee I hal Connally's sub.commit-
and I s taken a long time about it,
urgin has seemed to need a lot Of
prs sns, This has given the i'm
lion '9 ~ That the Connally resolu-
fan, Is 5, Weak compromise which
pjonoS snort Of the proposals CT the
Bali isg IT'S in Congress-of Messrs.
sens Sem, match, Burton and Hill in the
The @ w. and Of Mr.. Fulbright in
ts5 tne Impression is, I think. mis-.
shopn, al ana | believe it can be
lon taT"2 J. that Mr.. connally's ~ reso1 pe
Mr. R , sounder and wiser than
roron naEs and that it is n elra,,
T III. saot than Mr.. Fulbr il t,:o' {
co ane second paragraph Of t + h o
hahn l5'l dst. resolution remedies the
Fulbr; uelect and weakness Of the the
Says li a1ai. resolution. Mr.. conna tIIv
orgsnip, panty n, that he proposes sN' to
That si'h :. our comrades in arn a.,
Nations IS to say, with the lel 1 ri1its
other ll IA Mr.. Fulbright, on + h =
Asnd' left it much W vaeu u :
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
6,774 Americans Lost
In Italy Before Fight
For Volturno Started

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21- Up -
American forces in Italy lost 6,774
men killed, wounded or missing
before the Volturno fighting be-
gan, Secretary of War Stimsor
announced today. The total is con
siderably less than earlier esti-
mates indicated.
The secretary told a news con-
ference 879 Americans were kill
ed, 3,O47 wounded and 2,848 miss.
ing between September and the
opening of the battle of the Vol
turno. Advices earlier in the month
estimated the total at 8,307-511
killed, 5,428 wounded and 1858
missing.
No figures are available on the
Volturno fighting, Stimson said,
but indications are that British
losses will be heavier than those
of the United States.
The War Secretary described how
a company of American soldiers
Of Japanese ancestry led one of
the Italian mainlandattacks and
now is fighting in the battle
line along the road to Rome"
The soldiers were born in Hawaii
Of Japanese parents and Stimson
described them as typical Am
erican ''Doughboys."
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
ARMY OFFICER PREDICTS
THAT FOE WILL AT7EEzDT
TO STRIKE u. S. PESTS
Prentiss Brow ssigns
AS Price Control Chief

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. IL u
Price Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown resigned today, telling
President Roosevelt he thought the
main task he set out to do-halt
an upward trend in the cost Of
living-had been accomplished.
Mr.. Roosevelt accepted the
resignation after first urging Brown
to stay on. He is expected to
nominate Chester Bowles, now
general manager of OPA, to head
the agency. Brown has left policy
making largely to Bowles for the
last two months and in offering
his resignation told the President
that OPA is in competent hands. :"
A 54-year-old former senator
from Michigan, Brown took over
OPA last January, succeeding
Leon Henderson, an economist who
had held various posts earlier I'M
der the new deal. At the time the
agency was under fire in Con-
gress with many members sharply
critical of Henderson.
Brown TOLD friends then that he
did not want the post, but was
undertaking the job at Mr.. Roose-
velt's request. He also said pub
licly that he wanted to admins
ter OPA on a common sense"
basis, and to show the American
people and Congress that price
control is not an imposition but a
protection.
In his letter Of resignation, he
expressed the opinion that price
control has been a success and
that it is appreciated by the coun-
try.
Brown left Washington today
without saying what are his plans
for the future. There has been
speculation that President Roose-
welt might offer him another as
signment, possibly place on the
Federal Reserve Board. Brown
was a banker and lawyer in St.
Ignace, Mich, before election to
Congress. His defeat last fall in
his campaign for reelection to the
fr.~xs,I De-. Covavo. CoI ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22

PRACTICAL everything has suffered
tremendous increase. The same
grade of automobile tire which
SOLD for $7.95 in 1910 now retails
at 111.95 up. Clothing prices show
a general upward trend and there
is hardly an article listed which
does not show some gain in price.
A table listing a few compare
tive prices of several foods was
COMPILED Thursday night from the
advertisements as follows:
Pork chops: 1940-21 ents a
pound; 1887 cents poun d..
Hans: 194O-19 cents a pound; 1943-
"a cents pound. Flyers: $4,000
certs a pound; 1943-57 cents a
pond.
Butter: 1902 cents a pound;
1880 to IS cents a pound. Mar
garine: 1940-10 cents pound; 1943-
2, cents pound. Potatoes: 1870
$50 per hundred pounds; 1943-
$3.50 per hundred pounds. Grapes:
1905 cents a pound; 1943-15 cents
pund; 1943-41 cents poun d.
I ard: 1908 cents pound; 1s43-
q cents 4 pound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22

and more general as to who as a
matter of fact was to have the
practical initiative and was ac-
lively to assume the responsibility.
His resolution speaks only OF the
nations of the world"
Though there is no doubt that
Mr.. Fulbright himself in fact be-
lieves that the allied nations IN
the present war should become
the founders and primary guardl-
ans of the future peace, it is highly
important that the Senate should
say so definitely.
The defect of the Ball resolution
is that it implies, though in am
biguous phrase, a well meant but,
l think, unwise, undesirable and
unconsidered proposal to establish
an international army. His reso-
tons military force" but what MIR.
Ball means by this is-and I am
sure he would confirm this be-
cause these are his own words
"a true international force, rep
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
SAVES
WAR TAX PLANS
N. c. Scion Says Admins.
tration Promises To
Economic

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. Up
The effort to write new wartime
tax legislation was saved from the
brink of defeat today after Rep.
Doughton D-NC) declared that
Administration officials had pro-
missed to bend all efforts to econ
omize.
On the assurance that expendi-
lures would be "streamlined, "
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, which originates all re-
venue legislation, voted to con-
tinue to work on tax bill, but
it gave no hint on how much, if
any, additional revenue might be
cl1anneled to the Treasury. Pre-
viously it had been indicated the
committee might not write any
tax bill.
The committee ignored the Ad-
ministration's proposal to raise
$40. 500, 10000 additional through
higher individual and corporation
income taxes and larger excuses
on so-called luxurieS.
In the midst of the sizzling tax
controversy, friends of Randolph
Paul, Treasury general counsel
who handled Administration tax
matters. said he had indicated he
would resign when the current tax
bill is out of the way. They quot
ed him as saying GIVE handled
three tax bills, and I think that
is enough"
The Ways and Means committee
ballotted on whether to proceed
further with new bill after Chair
man Doughton (D-NC) told the
members that persons close to
President Roosevelt 'have assur-
ed me that they will make every
effort to locate and eradicate all
unnecessary expenditures" He said
that he had been urging ques.
tioning and demanding with them.
The committee vote to continue
consideration Of new tax leglsla-
ton was reported unofficially to
be 16 to 9.
Republicans, in revolt against
further tax increases, contend $lO,-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22

Preparations for Nazi retreat
from all northwestern Russia as
well as from the Crimea and the
Dnieper bulge in the south are
indicated in Berlin advices to SWe-
dish papers. They report German
fortification of defense line
"south of Narva in Estonia" in
anticipation of a Russian offensive
in the north to match the Red
army blows being struck in the
south and center.
There would be no necessity of
such a defense line if the Ger
mans hoped to hold in the north.
Narva lies just within the Estonian
borders on the Revel Leningrad
rail and highway system close to
the Gulf of Finland coast. It is
also on the Naroova river, the sea
outlet from the Peipus lake chain
that forms most of the Russian
Estonian frontier, leaving the mar
row Narva isthmus as the only
land bridge between the two coun-
tries above the Pskov gateway,
south Of the Peipus lakes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
STACCERS
UNDER Raj RAIDS
Big Night Bombers Fly
Into Heart OF Nazi
Homeland

LONDON, Oct. Iii tR The
RATS big night bombers flew into
the heart of Germany last night
and attacked Leipzig, third most
important Nazi industrial center,
and a key railroad junction for
supplying the German armies on
the Russian front.
A large force gave Leipzig IT'D
first large-scale blasting of TIL e
war with loss of II planes, the
same number as lost over Han
mover on Monday. simultaneously
the RATS indefatigable and fast
twin-engined Mosquitoes again har-
assed Berlin and other western
German cities in a campaign to
keep the sirens going between
knockout saturation raids.
Leipzig, a city of 100000, lies
almost on the Czech border 100
miles southwest of Berlin and more
than 500 airline miles from Lon
don. Only Berlin and Hamburg
are more important 1nduStrlally TO
the German war machine.
Not since its sixth raid of the
war-which was as long ago as
Nov. %, 1940-had Leipzig been
bombed. Since then many bomb
ed-out plants in the Ruhr are be-
lieved to have been transplanted
to the more remote Leipzig.
The city is known to have been
turning out airplane engines and
to- be assembling twin engined
Junkers-88 fighter-bombers - the
type of craft making nuisance in
crr'sions into England-and Mes
sefschmitt 1905, one of the Nazis'
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Continued on Page Seven; Col. II
YOUTHS DISCOVER
OLD GRAVE STONE
Marker Dated 1920 Found
At Site OF Recent
Excavation

A new development was disclos'
ed Thursday regarding the skele'
tons which were unearthed in the
excavation for the new Atlantic
Coast Line office building Wednes'
day.
A grave marker bearing the in
scription. "In memory of Mrs
Mary Hanson, wife of MIR. Allah
Hanson, who departed this life
August 6, 1920. Aged IS years. Also
her daughter Mary Eliza who de
parted this life September Is, 1920
Aged 3 months.
The marker was discovered
Thursday afternoon by two Will
mington youths, Billy Crotts and
Earl Buck, at the north end o.
the excavation. The boys report
ed that the stone was found lying
unobtrusively in a pile OF debris
turned up by the steam-shovel
The dirst from the excavation is
being hauled away from the pro-
iect in trucks and several persons
declared that many similar pieces
of evidence may have been haul
ed away to different parts of the
city.
After the fact was established
that these bodies were actually
buried and the time Of burial es-
ablished, many "old-timers" adj
vanced the opinion that these peo-
pie were victims of the Yellow
Fever epidemic which swept the
lower Cape Fear region at ap-
proximately that time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
PROGRESS is HARD
Capture OF Eternal City
Placed Considerably
Into Future
SLIGHT GAINS NOTED
Alice u,vo 0n1v Made ~
Allies Have Only Made Il
Miles In Equal Num-
Der OF Days
ALLIED HEADOUAR

ALLIED HEADQUAR
TIERS, Algiers, Oct. 21-(P
- Hopes of a quick Allied
conquest of Rome faded to-
nieht as 1t. Gen. Mark Clark's
Fifth Army slogged forward
at a slackened pace through
muddy terrain a little more
than 81 miles north of Ma
pies, just 21 days after en-
tering that important port.
An average Of a mile a
day in country that was grow
ing increasingly difficult and
against German resistance
wing correspondinely
stronger placed the capture
of the eternal city, 100 air.
line miles away, a consider
able distance into the future.
Yesterday Clark's augment
ed forces registered only
slight gains north of the VOL
turno river as patrols probed
into the enemy's new 27-
mile-long defense line that
follows the rugged Massico
ridge from the sea to Vent
fro. The soggy, devastated
agricultural terrain posed
terrific transport problems
for the American and Brit.
ish allies.
(The Berlin radio said Thursday
night that "the possibility that the
Allies are planning a further land
ing in Italy is envisaged' in Ber-
lin. German military quarters
point OUT said tn e broadcast,
'that the Allies probably desired
to make up for lost time and to
compensate for the delay which
has arisen in the south of Italy"
Mediterranean shipping has been
Unusually lively'' since the be.
ginning of October, Berlin said.
Fighting 2,4Oo feet above sea
level along Italy's mountainous
backbone, Gen. Sir Bernard l..
Montgomery's Eighth Army cap
tured the village of Busso, about
four miles west Of Campobasso,
and Oratino, a few miles to the
north. Storming of the high ground
west of Campobasso against strong
Nazi resistance was essential for
the movement of Montgomery
forces along an important road to-
ward the highway and rail Juno
ton of Isernia.
From Isernia a lateral roa d
leads southwest to Venafro, and
any push along this road by the
Eighth Army would threaten to
flank the inland anchor Of the
Nazis new defense line.
Apparently encouraged by his
troops successful delaying action,
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring,
the German commander, has
brought fresh forces into the fray
and is offering greater resistance
along the line, particularly on the
Eighth Army front.
Unlike the Tunisian campaign,
there is little chance Of trapping
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22

,SllQl Cllll1, tIllGIGo Tie conference
with Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, and Commissar for For
eign Affairs Vyascheslav Molotov.
Their presence for the second
straight day and the British spokes-
mans declaration suggested the
delegates were winding up tn e
military subject-which the Rus
slams have been 30 eager to dis
cuss fully and at the beginning
Of the historic conference.
Col. Gen. Flip I. Golikof, a high
Red army general, presented Rus
STA at the first conference yester-
day in which the military men
participated. He headed a Soviet
military mission to the U. S. in
1871.
'These discussions" said til e
British spokesman, have b n
very frank and full
British Foreign Secretary Eden
was reported as pleased over the
progress to date. The reaction of
Secretary Hull was not learned
Immediately, in keeping with the
American policy to divulge moth
ing until the sessions end.
Nor was the Soviet attitude dis
closed but to judge by all the
usual signs there was no doubt
about the friendliness of the whole
atmosphere in Moscow today.
Hardly at any time in the history
of the Soviet Union have relations
been so cordial with the United
States and Britain.
Moscow newspapers continued
to highlight the news of the con-
Continued on Page Seven; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
AWARD IS GIVEN
Etbyl-Dov Guards Honor
ed For 0utstand-
ing Effort
VIGILANCE is NEEDED
co1onel W. S. Pritchard
Charges Men To In
crease Alertness

Warming that the enemy
viii redouble its efforts to
s1ike at the source OF INDUS y,
trial production because the
s s.i of its submarine cam
na;gn. Colonel William 5.
p pri5 commanding Off
,ar Of the North Carolina
1s+rict. Fourth Service Com
rand. presented the Army
FvceIlence guidon to the
Plant Guard of the Ethyl
nr C h e m i ca | company
/, 7Nurs a Y afternoon, and
,srged it's member to main
ya stern vigilance against
naiS1o sabotage.
War Department Order
The award by the War Depart
mg4 was ordered through Major
General William Dryden, COM
handing general of the F ur t h
Service Command at Atlanta, Ga,
and presented to the guard for gen.
eral excellence. Addressing tn e
guard Col. Pritchard said that it
vas for the purpose of protecting
industry at its base that the aux
iI,aIv was formed. The strong
arm of the U. S. Army is near to
protect the plant in the event Of
an attempted armed invasion, but
it is the purpose Of such organiza-
tons as the Ethyl-Dow guard to
apprehend the individual sabo-
teur,' he added.
He concluded that not only the
guard but all Americans, in and
cut Of armed services, must aWak-
En- to their responsibility of pass
ing on to the next generation a
heritage Of freedom untarnished
by neglect Of duty.
Twenty one smartly gray uni
formed guards with metal gleam-
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
CHEST CAMP AICN
TO BEGIN NOV. |
No Definite Goal Has Been
Established By
Committee

Although a definite campaign
goa! has not been set for the an.
Aoal Community War Chest cam.
Palgn, the drive will begin Novem.
yer and continue through No.
VemOer %, N. E. Drexler. general
eaalrman Of the drive announced
Thursday.
Inc executive committee of the
'Aes s' is expected to complete its
s ,, and announce the goal TO,
cSnffllngton and New Hanover
0gul'y later this week, he said.
Inc first part Of the intensive
OElVe will be held among bust
mss taH establishments and will be
ulo"ed with a thorough bust
sse eS and house-to
house ias 4 solicitation beginning dur
Ns the week of November IS ane
N''.'hhed on Page Ten: Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Water Tank Truck
Schedule Will Be
Ended Here TODAY

The tank truck which has
been making a tour of the
city in an effort to ALE
viate the city water situa-
ton will be discontinued Fri
day. City Manager A. C.
Nichols announced Thursday
afternoon.
Nichols stated that the sa-
line content in the city water
supply is on the decline and
is approaching normality.
The salt content hit its high
level last weekend and since
that time has been slowly de-
creasing, Nichols disclosed.
A noticeable difference in taste
has been in evidence, and that
coupled with the fact that the
water has no harmful effects
on the body, was given as the
reason for the eliminating of
tank truck deliveries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
FIVE JAP PLANES
D0WNED BY ALLIES
Several Thousand Soldiers
Battling For Fins
chhafen Base
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday,
Oct. 22.-(R-Five japanese planes
have been shot down while raid.
ing Finschhafen, New Guinea, the
jungle sector north of which fierce
ground fighting is in progress.
There were 80 enemy planes in
the raiding formation.
There were no indications in to-
days communique that the Japa-
anese had pushed any farther in
their drive from Sattelberg, Is
miles north of Finschhafen, in an
effort to forge a solid line all the
way to the coast above that Allied
held base.
Several thousand troops are in
volved in this fighting.
To the northwest, Thunderbolts
shot down six enemv float planes
taking off at Wewak.
In the Solomons, eight Japanese
fighter planes were downed in a
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Red Forces
Roll Nearer
Kriivoi Rog
$500 Germans Die AS Rus
slams Sweep Up Fifty
Dnieper Villages
ENEMY LOSSES HEAVY
Soviet Communique De-
clares Foe Suffering I'm
mense Casualties

LONDON, Friday, Oct. %
-(P)-The Red army plung-
ed to within % miles Of the
industrial center of Krivoi
Rog yesterday, rolling over
1900 German dead and
through so more Dnieper riv-
er loop villages in a six-mile
stride toward the Black Sea,
Moscow announced early to-
day.
"The enemy is sustaining
enormous losses and under
the blows of our troops is re-
treating, abandoning arms
and stores of war materials, :"
said a midnight communique
supplement broadcast by
Moscow and recorded by the
Soviet monitor.
Berlin AQm1GS f11XuC
While Berlin spokesman ad-
mitted the southern German army
was in an extremely dangerous"
plight, enmeshed in a giant Soviet
pincers, the Russians also ANNOUNCE
ed the capture Of the center OF
embattled Melitopol, Grim n
gateway far to the southeast, and
southwest of Gomel.
In Melitopol, last major Axis po-
sition cas-: of the lower Dnieper
which is holding up the other arm
OF the Soviet pincers. the Russians
said their units wiped out 1000
enemy troops and smashed Ger
man reinforcements in vi o n t
fighting.
The streets of the city were de,
clared strewn with German dead
dozens OF wrecked tanks, huge
SO nm guns and other abandoned
enemy equipment.
The Germans, however, still|
hold the northern side Of the city,
and Moscow dispatches said whole
divisions of enemy troops still were
rushing northward from the Gil
mea in an effort to hold the Rus
slams.
Battering their way toward Re-
chitsa, % miles west of Gomel in
lower White Russia, the Russians
knocked out six more G ma n
strongpoints, the communique said.
In apparently belated reference
to this Russian sweep across the
middle Dnieper above Kiev, Ber-
lin broadcasts acknowledged that
120, 1000 Russian troops supported by
hundreds of tanks had smashed
through German lines on a three
mile front. Berlin has never ac-
knowledged this new Russian cross
ing of the Dnieper, and the broad
cast merely located the battle as
northwest of Chernigov.
The latest Soviet communique
announced that Red army troops
thanking Kiev on the north still
were fighting to widen their posi-
tons across the Dnieper in that
area. But battlefront dispatches
relayed from Moscow sa i d the
Russians already had established
airdromes on the west bank, and
Soviet airmen were pounding Ger
man reinforcements f ON those
new bases.
Stockholm dispatches, quoting
Berlin spokesman, said the Rus
sian drive across the Dnieper loop
toward the Black Sea was tn e
greatest show of Russian strength
of the war. The German spokes-
men also were quoted as saying
the Germans still were withdraw
(TnYaks1nunI ~xn D. 800 NJ OK
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Foreign Ministers Nearing End
of First Phase OF War Parleys

MOSCOW, Oct. 21-QF9-The American, British and
Russian foreign ministers met again today with u S. and
British military leaders in attendance, and a
British spokesman said they nearing the end of their
Every frank and fu discussions the first topic of the
agreed agenda.
Maj. Gen. John R. Deane, head of the permanent
America military mission to Russia and British It. Gen.
Sir Hastings Ismay chief staff officer for Prime Minister
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
WEATHER

FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA: Continued mild
today. r:.>
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. M, yesterday.
TEMPERATURE
1870 a. M, 81, 1870 a. M, %, %; aa
M. 80, 1880 p. M, 68. Maximum Do
NEininum So, Mean 68, Normal "a.
40 HUMIDITY
30 a. M, 90, 1870 a. m'' w. LOU
q. M, As, 1880 p. M, 70; oN
Total for the "a hours ending E'0
Total since the first OF the HULL -''
600 inches. ,op ronAy