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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
FRONTAL ASSAULT
Macarthur Is In Position
Now To Invade New
Britain Island
AUSSIES TAKE BASE
Northern Jungle Trail Was
Only Possible Means Of
Escape For Nips

SOUTHWEST A l. L | E D
HEADQUARTERS, Satur-
day, Nov. 27.-(P) Sattel-
berg village on a 2,400 foot
spur overlooking New Gul-
meas Huon Gulf - from
whose coast General MacAr-
thur is in position to invade
New Britain - was stormed
and captured Friday by Aus
tralians who strewed the
high ground with dead JAP
anese and seized much war
equipment, including field ar
tillery.
The Japanese survivors re-
treated north along the War
ego trail after yielding their
first major point in the area
since the fall of Finschhafen,
8 miles to the southeast, on
Oct. 2.
Defense Jungle
The victory, achieved by Aus
tralians who had to overcome the
most difficult type Of mountain
and dense jungle in addition to
fierce enemy resistance, brought
to close military operations
which started Sept. 81 with a
landing of the coast north OF
The series Of assaults cul1ninat-
ing in Sattelherg's capture started
Nov. II when medium tanks were
thrown into action.
A double development, plus a
direct frontal assault, was the
strategy USED. The Aussies closed
in until the japanese defenses vir-
tually were surrounded with the
northern Jungle trail the only pos
ible means of escape.
The three Aussle forces, sup
piled throughout the campaign by
American ampnibiol;s engineers,
moved on the village from Kuma-
wa, to the south, Jivivaning, to
the southeast and Palahko to the
northeast.
The almost precipitous cliffs on
which Satte.berg stands, were well
adapted to2Japanese defense STRAIT
egy. The Aussies were forced to
overcome fixed defenses and dug
outs.
Tanks were able to follow the
main trail almost to the village
itself and played an important
part in clearing the way for the
infantry.
United States BLACK Cats"
planes hit a Japanese cruiser 65
Continued on Page Five Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
REPORT ON FLEET
ISSUED BY KNOX
Says American Navy Has
Been Doubled During
Past II Months

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 Up -
Secretary of the Navy Knox re-
rorted today that the numerical
strength of the American fleet has
been doubled in the last II months
ard that new craft include more
than 40 aircraft carriers.
With the new construction, his
report said that S17 connbatant
vessels NOW make up the fleets
en- all oceans.
Within the next two weeks, Knox
said. new construction also will
make good the q vessels lost this
year, bringing the total lighting
fleet to 1893 ships of all types from
destroyers escorts to big battle
ships.
The fleet was doubled last We'd
nesday, he said, when the new air
craft carrier Wasp was completed.
It wassthe 419th new warship COM
pleted in 1943 and, with allowance
for q warships lost since January
/, brought the 100 per cent IN
crease in fleet size.
The present fleet compares with
344 combatant vessels when the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941.
although 1943 has been the
bumper year in navy production, -
Knox said 1894 is scheduled to
be even larger
He said at news conference
that he was unable to estimate the
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
MASTERING OUT
PAY. Is STUDIED
Bills Call For $500 To Be
Given Persons Leaving
Armed Forces

WASHINGTON Nov. &c. Up -
Congress got a $7,ouU, 900, 900 pro-
gram today for financial aid to
demolilized service men and wom-
en-. Introduced fter President
Roosevelt urged such action, ii
calls for:
Up to $500 mastering out pay
on leaving the service.
SIS to $25 a week unemployment
compensation, depending on tn e
number of dependents, if without
a civilian job at all, time during
the first 10 months after leaving
the service.
Social security credits, based on
pay of S16u a month, for time
spent in the service.
The program was introduced in
four separate bills. Identical meas
ures covering unemployment COM
pensation ard social security cred
it's were introduced ii the Senate
by Senators Wagner D.-N. ",
George ID. .Ga.) and Clark Cd
Mo-, acting jointly, and in the
House by Chairman Doughton Cd
N c. of the Ways and Means
Committee.
Senate Majority Leader Barley
of Kentucky and Chairman May
tD.-Ky.) of the House Military
Committee introduced bills provid-
ing for mastering out pay. May
said the plan had the backing of
the White House.
President Roosevelt urged in a
message earlier this week h t
Congress paovioe now for finan-
cial aid to hose leaving the arm
ed services He said such action
would give a big boost to morale
of fighting men.
Under the May Barley plan,
mastering out pay would go to
all personnel below the grades of
major in the Army and lieutenant
commander in the Navy. 1t would
be 500 for less than four months
service. 5000 for four to six months
service, ana $500 fos six months
or more service.
The program OF unemployment
compensation calls for SIS a week
for single persons with an addi-
Continued on Page Five; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
CHEST CANVASSERS
CONTINUING WORK
Workers In Outlying Dis
tricts Plan To Make
Full Report

Rolling along at top speed. work
ers in the outlying districts OF
New Hanover County are continu-
ing their intensive canvass in or
der to make full and complete re-
ports before next Tuesday night S
final report meeting of the Com
War Chest Campaign.
Reports coming in from the
outlying sections have been very
satisfactory" drive. leaders said,
and they predicted at the Coun-
ty would oversubscribe their goal
when final results are known.
A. L. Mansfield, chairman of
Federal Point Township, and A.
Peacy, manager of Carolina Beach
said, workers in the Federal
Point Township had turned in
more than $1,1OO to Campaign
Headquarters, and that residents
of Federal Point have responded
to the War Chest appeal, and were
very happy to have the privilege
of giving to the II agencies of the
War Fund.
The goal set for the County Di-
vision is $1,000, and up to Friday
night, totals turned in indicated
that this division is scheduled to
go over the top at the report meet
ing Tuesday night.
Campaign Headquarters will be
Continued on Page Tive; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Press War Analyst

The Red army's recapture OF
Gomel. last Nazi defense anchor
east of the Dnieper. proclaims that
German invaders have again been
out-smarted, as well as out-fought,
and that the Russian winter Of
fensive of 1913 is afoot at last.
The power and speed with which
Russian attackers above and be-
low Gonel slashed through to the
east bank of the Dnieper on a
wide front is significant W n n
compared with the waning drive
o. the Nazi counter attack against
the Kiev bulge to the south.
The new Russian break-through,
expanding the bulge northward all
the way to the Dnieper, must be
traceable to depleted German re-
serves in that area. Those reserves
probably we're shifted to tn army
which has been battering for near
ly two weeks at the southwestern
segment of the Kiev bulge. Rus.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
WEATHER

FORECAST:
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA
Cloudy ana mild Saturday. Saturda,
night and Sunday Intermittent Igh
1ains west portion Sunday.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau
Meteorological data for the "a houri
ending 7:30 p. m, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 m, "a, 80 a. m, 49, / 80 .. n
10, 80 p. M, 60. Maximum II, Mini
mum 40, Mean 81. Normal SO.
Humidity
l 80 a. m, SO, 7 80 a. m, S. 1870 p. m
81. Z 80 m, 81
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 p m.
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
0.62 inches.
Tides For Today
tFrom the Tide Tables published b.
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
------------- s:s2a 4:osa
9;41p 4:46p
Masonboro Inlet ---------- 7:12a
7:22p l :36p
Sunrise, 6 IS a. m, Sunset. 5 :03 D. M,
Noonrise. Sal a, Moonset. 500 p.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville,
9.24 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
SURVEY OF WAR
WORKERS IS SET
Thirteen Questions Are
Listed On Forms
Sent Out

In a practical move to deter
mine what postwar plans are BE-
ing entertained by the large in
flux of war workers In the city,
the Housing Authority OF the City
of Wilmington is undertaking a
survey of the approximately 5,ooo
tenants in its various housing
units, Henry R. Emory, executive
director, said Friday.
Results of the comprehensive
survey, being handled through
mailed questionnaires, are to be
made available to the City-County
Post War Planning commission.
the City Planning board, and in
terested local industries.
The compiled data from the sur
vey sheets is expected to reveal
whether or not a representative
number of the war-working resi-
dents plan to remain in the city
at the conclusion OF the emer-
gency-a fact said to be of vital
Importance in postwar planning
for the community.
Individuals are not being re-
quested to sign the questionnalreS
as they file them; the data on
individuals will be kept confiden-
tial.
There are thirteen questions on
the sheets, as follows:
l. Where did you live before
coming to Wilmington
2. What kind of work did you
do?
3. For whom did you work, and
what was the nature of his bust
ness?
4. What was your previous sal
airy?
5. How much rent did you pay7
9. Was the house you lived in
as good as your present house?
Z. what is your present address?
.. What kind of work are you
doing?
Continued on Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
Shipbuilding Firm
Asked To Make Some
Changes In Ships

r. Inc North Carolina shipbuilding
tNhuiilpahy announced Friday that
o a-s maritime Commission had re-
t.' aesled the YARDS to make Ger
s s',b.. major design changes on a
DIV a3;s'ahtlal number of the go CO
fps under its first contract for
4l,s type vessel
co 0ulelals said this would involve
ns sasioerable additional work and
inv sSSltate greater production ef-
can, IN the part of the yard Be-
tbe 'e OF the demands it will take
its company longer to complete
nsl; vohtracts and the time for the
n,nr sefy of the go ships, plus 81
,an re on another contract, will be
ecb stiehed beyond the originally
~ louled period for the program,
tvn me yard has launched 10 c.
trac. vessels after completing con.
N'S ior 1926 Liberty ships.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
Walter Lippmann Says:
u. S. Attack On Gilbert
Group Is Historic Euent

At least three capital errors of
national policy We're inaugurated
al the Washington Conference. We
arrested the technical and tactical
development of our sea power by
limitations of types and of funds.
AS result, less than 20 years
later we had an obsolescent Navy,
which was unprepared even if it
had not been paralyzed at Pearl
Harbor, to wage war under mod
ern conditions. In these last two
years we have had to do much
more than repair the damage we
sustained at Pearl Harbor. We
have had to perform industrial and
chronological miracles of recon-
structing our sea power.
The Washington Conference also
Continued on Page Five; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
COAL OPERATORS
REPORTED AGREED
Industry Said Ready To
Work Out Agreement
On Formula

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Up -
Virtually the entire soft coal in
dustry, except Cor southern oper-
ators, was reported to be agreed
tonight to negotiate for wage
contract on the basis of the agree
ment worked out by John L. Lew.
is, United Mine Workers president,
and Secretary Of Interior Ickes.
Harry M. Moses spokesman for
the captive mines owned by
steel companies, entered the talks
between Lewis and mine operators
for the first time today at the
urging OF Ickes. After the after
noon session, Informed sources
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
F.D.R.' sLatin
Spending Hit
ByU. s. Scion
Sc, Is :. Nebraska,
s. cAs "Wild
agance"
slocY GIVEN
president Calls State
" ment a "Shocking
Slur"
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26
-P)-Senator Butler r.
Neb) pictured good neigh.
Dor" spending by the United
States today as a wild ex-
travagance in which Uncle
Sam is played for a "sucker. y
Vice President Wallace re-
piled with an apology to Lat
in America "for the shocking
slur."
Butler called the expendi-
lures south of the border a
bumbling form of dollar di-
plomacy which is winning us,
at best, the "sucker" label
and, at the worst, a suspi-
cious n1istrust of motive.
Rampant Graft
The Midwest Republican hao
hardly finished reading sections Of
a bristling report in which he tole
the Senate also of stores of ram
pant graft by Latin American Of
ficials handling U. S funds wher
Wallace issued this statement:
"As Vice-Fresident of the United
States, I feel compelled to express
my deep regret to our Latin Amer
lean allies in the war for the
shocking slur which has Heer
made against them today.
ITO the people OF the other
Americas. l want t. say it is my
belief that the people of the Uni
ted States are profoundly crate.
full to you for the sincere, tnself'
ish support which you have given
us in our time of need.
He Is Confident
''To those new world nations
which nave joined the war at our
side, and which have severed dip.
lomatic relations with the Axis.
want to say that the policy of the
good neighbor is the policy of the
people of the United States and |
am confident it will continue and
not be temporary.
1.-THE fantastic figures which
have been Used in an apparent
effort to discredit the good neigh
Dor policy will be lefuted by the
a agencies inv olved.'
The figure Wallace questioned
was an estimate by Butler that
Sc, 900, 000,0 of United States
funds has been poured into Latin
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
Gen. Eisenhower Defends
Action In Patton Case
Two Soldiers Were Struck By Seventh Army
Commander, Senate Learns In Report
To Continue Investigation OF Affair

feasible manner" in which Patton
upbriaded two men, one of whom
had a temperature at the time,
ard "cuffed' one so that his hel,
met rolled off his head. e
Eisenhower said that he had
cered Patton to make amend
the individuals involved,
necessary to his whole arm
ing that he, Eisenhower. haUs:
served a decision on relieving P..
ton from command until he could
determine the effect of the cor
receive action.
Although Eisenhower thus left
the matter open for further ac-
ton, the tone of his report indi-
Gated he considered the matter
closed. Eisenhower noted he had
been informed by an inspector gen.
cral sent to investigate the case
that the men of the Seventh Army
felt that General Patton has done
a splendid overall job and no great
harm had been done"
Il personally supervised this in
vestigation throughout and k
those steps that seemed applica.
bic in the circumstances, because
! believe that General Patton has
a great field of usefulness in any
assault where loyalty, drive and
sallantry on the part of the army
commander will be essential" Eli
senhoWer said.
The repol to the Senate did
not state why the story was kept
bottled up for three and a half
months, or why. when it finally
came out, Allied headquarters in
Continued on Page TWu: Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
Reds Have Consistently
Misled German Leaders

sian leadership knew it and took
Immediate advantage of the op-
portunity to smash forward.
If that is the explanation, it
means that the Nazi high COM
aland is fatally short of the man
power to meet the new crises de-
yeloping on the Russian front. And
it has been m1sled as to where
the next blows would fall and has
again underestimate b o t h Rus
sian reserve striking power and
Russian staff efficiency.
Kiev was lost to the Nazis be-
cause they withdrew from before
Kharkov the troops urgently need
cd to meet the situation in Italy
md the Balkans created by the
Anglo-American invasion OF Sicily.
They expected Red leaders to con
centrate against the Dnieper cross
i,gs at the depth OF the srea'
southern bend of the river IN
stead, the Russians promptly SHIT
Continued on Page Five; Col' D
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27

WASHINGTON. Nov. &c. Up -
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a
report laid before the Senate to-
day, defended the corrective &C.
ton" he took in the case of Lieut..
Cen. George S. Patton, Jr., who
cutfed one soldier suffering from
nervous disorder and upbraided
another in what Eisenhower called
IAN unseemly and indefensible
manner
Eisenhower declared that he still
believed he made a sound decision
In keeping Patton in his command
OF the Seventh Army while reprov.
1ng him and forcing him to apollo
gize. Secretary of War Stimson,
in another report sent to Chair
man Reynolds D.-N. c. of the
Senate military committe, back
ed Eisenhower action as right
and proper.
Legislators made known how
ever, that Congressional investiga.
ton of the incidents would pro-
coed. Meanwhile the Army and
Navy Journal, unofficial but au-
thoritative publication. asserted
that any officer guilty of under
mining state OF discipline based
CT mutual respect" should be re
heved instantly from their COM
mand."
After a rest as in the case of
General Patton, they might prove
to be useful again. the publica-
ton said in an editorial.
Eisenhower, in his report, dis
Closed officially for the first time
that Patton had been involved in
two incidents instead of one. He
outlined the "unsee1nlY and indie
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

The attack on the Gilbert Islands
is an historic event. II marks the
recovery Of American sea power
not only from the disaster at Pearl
Harbor, bu. from the deteriora-
ton which began in 1922 with the
Washington Conference Pearl Har-
Dor, where the ma i n battleship
force was Knocked out in few
hours, was spectacular and humil-
iating. But in retrospect it is now
evident that the effects of tn e
Washington Conference were far
more serious.
Only now. after two years of
prodigious effort, are we in po-
sition to begin to overcome the
consequences by what is almost
certain 10 be a long, bitter and
bloody campaign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27

'DflQSeneaQ across the San2rO NV
er near 1taly's Adriatic coast.
The enemy's fierce counterat-
tacks from high ground overlook
Zig the Eighth's hard-won posi-
tons slackened consider ably, an
official announcement said today,
cue largely to the denoralizing
effect of thousands of anti-person-
mel Augmentation bombs u n 6
from the air On German troop
concentrations and trenches.
Lines SheIled
Shaken Nazi prisoners blamed
the ceaseless aerial pounding for
the fact that Montgomery's veter-
ans were able to consolidate and
enlarge their bridgehead and pour
reinforcements and essential sup
plies across the flooded Sangro.
Enemy guns e1nplaced in the hills
northwest of the stream continued
TO shell the Eighth's trenches and
supply lines however, despite the
heavy bombing they mad under
gone since the battle began last
Saturday.
Continued brisk ground fighting
was reported near the mountain
Gus middle of the Italian front,
where Eighth Army units won new
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
Postoffice At Maffit
Set To Open Jan. l

POstma ster Wilbur r. DOsher
disclosed Friday that the
branch postoffice at Maffitt Viii
lage is expected to be placed
in orerat ton by Jan. /.
To be located in the Vance
commercial building at the war
housing project. the office is
scheduled to be serving APP
proximately $4,000 patrons by
the spring of 1914, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
BREMEN POUNDED
Fifth Successive asting Is
Given Smouldering
Nazi Capital
FRENCH TARGETS HIT
City Reported More Than
One Fourth Destroy
ed By Blastings

LONDON, Saturday, Nov.
81. - (P) - Raj bombers
blasted smoldering Berlin
last night in the third heavy
aerial blow on the German
capital in five nights, after
the greatest armada of U. S.
heavies ever to take the air
pounded the German north
sea port of Bremen and north
ern France targets in day.
light yesterday.
1t was the fifth successive
night blow on the fire-gutted
capital, swift Mosquitoes get
ting in their telling stings
when the Raj heavies stay
ed home. 1t was learned that
several squadrons of RCAF
heavy bombers Joined the
Raj last night to heap more
loads of big bombs on the
worlds most-bombed city,
now reported more than one
fourth destroyed.
First word of last nights opera
ton, which came in the face of
repeated Nazi cries that revenge
would be taken on Britain in the
form of secret weapons, came via
the Berlin radio.
Heavy opposition was encounter
ed by the American bombing
force, which included both Flying
Tortresses and Liberators, and
the attackers lost 80 planes, 20 of
them heavy bombers. a total Of
the Observation-Disclosures YIN
Sc German planes were shot down.
American and Raj fighters es-
Official Announcement
The official announcement of
the operations - which followed
heavy Raj night smash at in
dustrial FrankfurtAam-Main and
a Thursday night Mosquito stab
at re-blackened Berlin said
that the largest force OF British
based American bombers ever enl-
ployed in a daylight assault gave
Bremen, an important industrial
city of $4,000 people, its 10th
raid of the war.
The force of heavy bombers US
ed against Bremen yesterday ex-
ceeded the previous record group,
estimated unofficially at 500 or
more which cascaded tons of high
explosives on Wilhelmshaven on
Nov. 3.
OF the Sc German planes shot
out of the sky, escorting fighter
planes set a new record by ac-
counting for SO, and the bombers
got 20. The previous high for U.
S. Eighth Air Force Thunderbolts
and Lightnings was Is German
planes destroyed in the Kassel
raid on July 30.
The Berlin radio announced that
the new attack on the German
capital was made by the Raj,
which already had melted out two
blockbusting assaults and two
light Mosquito attacks this week.
'On Friday night formations of
British bombers again attacked
Berlin the German announce
ment said. $50 far no details are
available from competent military
quarters, as it is now only few
minutes since the raiders passed
signal"
in the west of Berlin alone the
{ Continued on Page Two. CoJ RI
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-27
Germans Are Sharply
Repulsed By British 9Th

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers Nov. 26.-QF9
Hammered by daylong relays of American and British
fighter bobers Naz troops have been sharply repused
in every onslaught against Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom
erys Eighth Army, which improved it's fivemile-long