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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07
TICKETS GIVEN
ON BOND MOVIE
Estimated Two Thirds OF
Vouchers Already Releas-
ed For Premier Show

An estimated two-thirds of the
tickets to the premier showing of
Heaven Can Watt motion pic
ture which is to serve as the kick
off of the Third War Loan Drive
in Wilmington, have been dispens-
ed free of charge to purchasers
of new bonds campaign leaders
said Monday night.
There are still a number of
tickets. But those who wish to at
tend the special 9 o'clock perform
ance at the Bailey Tuesday night
had better approach their bond
agents early Tuesday," was tn e
word of advice from the authori-
ties.
The principal attraction of the
specialties promised at the show
is an auctioning OF articles, con
tributed by local merchants. Fred
Willetts, in the role of auctioneer,
is expected to offer approximately
70 valuable articles for sale to
the highest bond-bidders.
Mayor Bruce Cameron will
award the door prizes, the most
important of which will be the
$500 bond offered by local banks.
The New Hanover High school
band is scheduled to play in con-
cert before the theater for half
an hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07
RED ARMY DRIVES
TO STALINO GATES
Konotop Also Captured In
Plunge Aimed Toward
Capital OF Kiev

LONDON, Sept. 6.-tR-The Red
army smashed to the outskirts OF
burning Stalino in the Donets basin
today and also captured the north
ern Ukraine citadel of Konotop in
a direct plunge toward the capital
of Kiev, 125 miles beyond, Moscow
disclosed officially tonight.
A communique announced the
seizure of the adjacent industrial
city of Makeevka, only six miles
east of Stalino, whose fall was ex-
pected in the next "A hours. Mos
COW dispatches earlier had said
Russian motorized forces w e r e
only three miles from the Axis
bastion, to which the Germans ap-
parently had applied the torch in
their retreat.
Slavyansk, Kramatorskaya, and
other points on the 60-mile Stalino-
Slavyansk railway also were de.
clared overrun by the hard-hitting
Russians, who thus blocked one
Nazi escape avenue and threat
ened to trap stable enemy forces
in the Stalino sector. The COM
munique, broadcast from Moscow,
Continued on Page Six; Col. A.
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ALLIES PUSHING ON
British And Canadians
Drive Inland 10 Miles
From 40 Mile Front
10 MORE TOWNS TAKEN
5000 Prisoners Captured
As Invaders Near Palmi
In North Push

A L L | E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Sept. 6.-(P) - British and
Canadian troops drove 10
miles inland from their 40
mile beachhead on the italian
toe through extensive demoli-
lions and stood tonight on
the forbidding slopes of AS
promonte, a 6,000-foot noun
tain nearly halfway across
the Calabrian peninsula.
CA Berlin radio account
quoting DNB said the Axis
had evacuated southern Gala
bria, the Italian province
Graded in the toe.)
Ten more towns fell. Pris-
oners swelled to 5000. COL
umns invading the European
mainland were nearing Palmi
in their drive north. Others
curling around the south tip
of the Italian toe extended
their holdings beyond Mellto
on the Ionian sea.
Resistance Is Feeble
Resistance continued feeble, al
though some tanks were encount-
cred. The straits of Messina were
opened for Allied navigation as
the invaders compelled the Axis
troops to withdraw their coastal
cannon from range.
Allied planes employed their SUI
premacy to weave web of de-
struction in southern and central
Italy. Heavy bombers pummeled
the Viterbo area, so miles north
of Rome, in daylight sweeps Sum
day. Flying Fortresses and medi-
UNI bombers concentrated on a tri-
pie smash at three key airdromes
north of Naples which apparently
have been the major enemy air
bases.
The continued destruction of
Italian railways was left for the
moment to Raj Wellingtons. The
attacks on airfields were with the
avowed purpose of destroying en-
envy aircraft. Thousands of frag-
mentation and demolition bombs
were loosed on the Naples fields
by American raiders, pockmark-
ing the runWays.
At Santo Stefano d'Aspromonte,
10 miles east and northeast of
Reggie Calabria, italian civilians
greeted the invaders fervently.
The mountain hamlet was farthest
inland penetration and, with Reg
Continued on Page Six; Col. 81
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Nazis Reported Rushing
Anti-lnuasion Measures

LONDON, Sept 6-(F)-The Germans apparently
suffering from of invasion nerves.,
ported today rushing possible for the defense of
the southern coast of France and other vulnerable spots
along Europe's Mediterranean coastline.
German of Allied intentions for the invasion
of Adolf Hters Fortress of Europe flew thick and
fast that the British Broadcastng Corporation sent
ing to French listener to be careful Of German provoca
tions'
Announcng the evacuation of the Italian civilian
population from the Caabran toe of Italy, of the
United Nations first invasion of the European mainland
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07
GERMANS Keeling
UNDER AIR RAIDS
American Flying Fortress.
es Continue Day And
Night Pounding

LONDON, Sept. 6.-tR-British-
based American Flying Fortresses
Numbered 800 miles into extreme
southwestern Germany for t h e
first time today in a daylight as
sault that added new impetus to
the most intensive and most i'm
portant Allied aerial assault yet
staged over western Europe.
The day attack followed close
on the heels of night Raj raid
in very great strength which
turned Mannheim and Ludwigs-
haven, the twin cities of the in
dustrial Rhineland into smoking
ruin under the weight of 1900 long
tons Q.730 U. S. tons) of explo-
sives, it was announced.
eliminating four straight days
of virtually uninterrupted raiding
totaling already more than 40 ma
jor operations, medium and light
bombers and fighters followed up
the big bombers in a day-long
procession across the channel.
More waves of bombers a n d
scores of fighters winged out
across the channel early tonight
to carry the unprecedented assault
into another night.
Specific targets of the Flying
Fortress raid were not announced,
but the daylight bombers drove
into the Neutrality-suspicious. area
in which the industrial center of
Stuttgart is the leading city.
American B-26 medium Marau-
der bombers followed through with
their fourth raid in six days to hit
the spraWling railroad yards of
Rouen in northern France, and
Raj ighter-bombers and fighters
bombed the Boulogne harbor and
the Serqueux railway yards for
the second time within five days.
A brief Berlin radio announce
ment that two Flying Fortresses
from the Observation-Disclosures
raid had made forced landings in
Switzerland raised the possibility
that American bombeTs m G h t
have joined the Raj on asst night S
foray. Later a Swiss radio report
said that four Fortresses had land
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y
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HIGH SCHOOL WORK
RECEIVES PRAISE.
Achievements At Local In.
stitution L a u d e d By
Eminent Educator

In a letter to Principal T. T.
Hamilton, Jr., DR.. ]. Henry High
smith Of the State Department of
Public Instruction, one of North
cardinals eminent school men,
has highly commended the
achievements of New Hanover
High school, it was disclosed here
Monday,
The officials Of the admins
ration, the teachers, the pupils
and The citizens Of New Hanover
county are to be congratulated up
On the effort which is being made
10 give the boys and girls of that
community adequate educational
opportunities" DR.. Highsmith' s
message concluded.
Inc comment was forthcoming
'l'ef DR.. Highsmith had reviewed
recent publication from the High
ST"0o-d record of the institution S
a.NSl'ies and achievements during
D'v Scnool year 1942-43.
tae bound book carries a thor
t wv resume of development in
l ls school last year, when t h e
b lt.ssA number of students in its
.4 sYl' were enrolled. 1t does not
, T"s4pl to paint an all-pretty pic
.s N.Y. Inc account of difficulties
s. is as clear as the
wy ol the advances.
so as MIR, Hamilton reminds the
.ra a. mas been marked by unusual
. ~ssoI'uhltles and by very trying
.D'eihS Among the latter have
,ss sn me difficulties involved in
N''ns and retaining capable
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07

StloIlS lolce OF australians, Veter-
ans Of African battles, had done
the day before by storming ashore
above Lac while warships laid
down smokescreen.
General Macarthur was in 2
bomber which was part of a huge
formation that cruised over the
new landing point. He saw the
men seize strong positions without
encountering any immediate re-
slstance.
The paratroopers were virtually
all Americans, although tn er e
were few Australians.
These freshly won positions at
Lac, together with others which
have been slowly forged 10 miles
to the southeast at Salamaua, ring
ed in elements of four Japanese
divisions.
Any hope the Japanese might
have held of using the Markham
valley to flee out of Lac into the
jungles was erased by the para
troopers who closed that inland
route to the enemy.
The Australian forces a b ov e
Lac, who since have pushed ahead
until they met resistance at a
plantation 10 miles from Lac, suf-
tered a few casualties from raid
ing Japanese planes but the para
troopers surprise was even more
complete. Striking on the fourth
anniversary of Australian entry
into the war, they encountered no
air opposition. They were unmo-
Tested. therefore in dropping to
the valley and the planes which
brought them had the air to them
selves.
The greatest assemblage of
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Continued on Page Two; Col.
Soldiers Guide To Italy, Advises Allied
Inuasion Troops To Attend Opera In Milan

WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH
ARMY, Sept. 3.-DelayedD-R-
Allied troops invading the Italian
mainland carried a newly-issued
Soldiers Guide to Italy" advis,
ing them to attend the opera in
Rome or Milan and warning them
that "a number of Germans came
to an untimely end through trying
to pick up a respectable girl in
Italy"
The 32-page booklet is illustrated
with photographs of Vatican City,
the wooded Apprentices, Naples,
Florence and the Alps, and Was
handed out to Canadians and Brit
ish before they ferried across Mes
sina strait from Sicily.
The first paragraph told t h G
crack assault force that the Allies
would conquer ultimately, all the
areas which are Italian-owned and
have been under Italian control o
IF you treat civilian Italians
with moderation and tact - ano
equally with the firmness which
your situation demands-you will
make your own task easier of &C
complishment.
Likewise you may gain future
consideration and support of the
Italian people in our effort to re.
store world order. Until these PEG.
pie have laid down their arms,
they are the enemy. Once they
have laid down their arms it would
be hurtful to ourselves and the
cause of the United Nations to
contribute deliberately by act or
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tinued with the statement that
You will frequently have to act
through and in close collaboration
with legally appointed civilian Of
ficials as the greater part of ri
william life, once the fighting is
over, will continue to be run by
Italian civilians. 1t will be the
duty of the troops to assist these
officials and to hamper them as
little as possible. "
The guide recalled Prime Min
lister Churchill's; statement that the
Allies did not wish to administer
''by system of gauleiters' the
entire life OF Italy, and offered
these "don'ts'':
Don't be rude when restrain.
ing the curiosity Of the inhabi-
tants. Italians are naturally in
quisitive and you will be about
the most remarkable event which
has happened in living memory.
Don't drive furiously through
narrow village streets, scattering
pedestrians and livestock in all
directions.
Don't pick quarrels or make
it appear that you despise anyone
who isn't fortunate enough to be
British or American.
Don't demand your drinks in
cloud voice and consider you
have the right to be served before
any civilian.
"Stay clear of mobs, political
demonstrations or public gather
ings of any sort unless you have
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07

rs. To Share
Ptace Weight
p,;r,e Minister Declares
Price OF Greatness
Responsibility
COMMON CITIZENSHIP
Audience Told That Mutual
Tongue May Create
New Order

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept.
a-lP,-British Prime Min
s+pr Winston Churchill de-
, ,i, today that the United
Gates s.1 which could not escape
rrsssponsioility in this time OF
l rIobal conflict, would have an
email responsibility in the
Sesce that follows.
THE price of greatness is
rssponsibility," he told a spe-
,;si convocation of Harvard
University faculty and over
spers. called together to
award the British government
chief an honorary degree of
doctor Of laws.
Cheered by Crowd
Churchill in a bright red gown
ove- dark suit coat and gray trou-
sers vas cheered and applauded
fm a full two minutes as he &C
rented the honor from President
James Bryant Conant of Harvard.
The accompanying citation said:
Winston Leonard Spencer Chur-
Gillian historian who has writ
ten glorious page of British his
tory: a statesman and warrior
whose tenacity and courage turned
back the tide Of tyranny in free
dom's darkest hour
The gift of a common tongue,
Churchill told his Sanders theater
ludience at Harvard, m o st of
whom we're in uniform, is price
less inheritance" to the British
and American peoples. which has
"enabled us to wage war together
With an intimacy and harmony
never before achieved among al
les"
1T may well become the foun-
dation of a common citizenship"
he added.
Citing the work of the combined
of the American and
British military commands. oper-
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07
RECREATION HEAD
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
DR.. Harold D. Meyer Will
Address Meeting At USO
Center At 8 P. M.

DR.. Harold D. Meyer of Chapel
Hill, executive secretary Of Gov.
ernor Broughton's State Recres-
ton committee, will address a
city wide meeting on wartime rec.
reation in the auditorium of the
USO club Ascend and Orange
streets at 8 pm. Tuesday.
All persons in the city interested
in the municipal recreation pro-
gram now being developed under
City Recreational Director Jesse
Reynolds are urged to attend the
meeting, City Manager Nichols
said last night.
He emphasized that any citizen,
regardless of whether he was at
filiated with any of the several
recreational committees and agen-
cies here or not, would be well
come at the meeting.
DR.. Meyer is a member of the
sociology department of the Uni
versity of North Carolina and is
nationally recognized in his field.
Continued on PAGE Two: Col. q
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the Germans were said to have
cleared all French civilians out
of a 50-mile strip of Frances
southern coastal region, 10 miles
deep.
Field Marshal General Karl Ru-
dof Gerd Won Rundstedt, 67-year-
old German commander-in-chief in
western Europe, was also report
ed pushing ahead additional for
tifications in the Narbonne-Mont-
pelier district of the Mediterranean
coast to protect his headquarters
at Montpelier.
Like the Marseille area that
district, flat and sandy with sew
eral good ports. is particularly
suitable for landing operations.
Advices to the Allied govern
Continued on Page Six; Col. 81
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BOND DRIVE unit
TO MEET ON PLAN
Health Defense League To
Map Program For
Campaign

Health Defense League leaders
and other interested volunteers
are scheduled to meet at 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning at tn e USO
club, Second and Orange streets,
to receive instruction and materi-
ais for the door-knocker phase of
the forthcoming Third War Loan
Drive, Mrs. Berenice Stellings, di-
rector of the Women's division,
announced Monday.
All block leaders and zone chair
men who belong to the Citizens
Service Corps unit of the Defense
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07

We are entering the country pri-
marily SO that, having knocked
Italy out of the war, we can set
about finishing off our main enemy
in Europe, Germany.
Italy is an Axis country, but
its peoples are not all pro-Axis,
nor were they all pro-Fascist. "
The advice to the soldiers con-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07

attitude to tt eir resentment
against U.S.
The booklet points out that Italy
never before had been an enemy
of Britain or America and was
our ally in the First World war,
adding, THE policy of Britain and
America, therefore, is to treat the
Italians differently from Germans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07
WEATHER

..o FORECAST
isson.bn1.. CAROLINA: Continued IN
'DSply warm today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-07
; 100 ARE bEl]ZNZNED KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK;
ENEMY ADMITS EVACUATION OF CALAbR|A
Allied Parachute Troops
Close Ring On Salamaua

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST
FAClflC tuesday, Sept. 7-QF9-Amercan paratroops,
thur as they foated down to the Markham valley have
anoed behind Lac, New Guinea to complete the encirce
menu OF ~ 900 Japanese in the Lae-Salamaua sector
lhese landings achieved in considerable force Sunday
caught the japanese completely by surprise even as
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12

rease In interest. Already the
members are blossoming forth In
chic little knitted caps and a few
sweaters are nearing completion.
Mrs. ID. j. Dubisson. the instruc-
tor, is being assisted by Miss 4.
l.. Abraham and Miss Ivory era
ham.
Members OF the Nutrition class
under Miss Lucy Barrow are
learning how to stretch their
POINTS and how to utilize point
less dishes and how to plan we'll
balanced meals SO that their fam
lies are not only well-fed but
well-nourished a. well.
There IL still time to enroll IN
these classes - Home Nursing.
Tuesdays; Knitting. Wednesdays
and cooking on Thursdays at 7:eo
p. m.
The Book Lovers Club viii
meet on Sunday. November 18th
at 500. Mrs. Maxine Jackson
Will review the book. "Dr. Was
by James Hilton.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
Dodge Strike Unnecessary
Says NAACP Group

Detroit, M~ich.-Prince Clark,
chairman of the NAACP Labor
Committee, and William Ken
nedy, secretary, told workers from
the Dodge Truck Plant, that
their strike last week was "un-
necessary and showed ignorance
of Union procedure"
At a meeting of the NAACP
Labor Committee, Sunday, Oc-
tober 81, at the st. Antoone
YMCA, the case of Mrs. Hazel
Davis, was called to the Associa-
tons attention by Mr.. Clark Hall,
one of the workers who was fired
by the company for participating
in an unauthorized walkout.
Mrs. Davis, who was transfer
red fro ma TAPPING job to a grease
job, refused to work on this
operation. She was ordered out
OF the plant and her husband,
Lloyd Davis, also walked out. APP
proximately rs Negro workers
fired for refusing to work sympa-
thized with the Davis, and were
told by the NAACP Laor Commit
tee that proper grievance proceed
n had not been utilized before
drastic action.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
Miss Mountain was royalty re,

Miss Mountain was royalty re-
eeiyed by the Girl Reserves of
Little Rock and North Little Rock.
She was presented at Special
Girl Reserve Assembly programs
at Dunbar. southend and Jones
High. At dunbar and South
End the girls presented Miss
Mountain with a lovely eorsage
and Jones High girls presented
two beautiful handkerchiefs. Miss
Bryant. Girl Reserve secretary,
had charge OF these programs.
The visit of this distinguished
worker to u city proved an in
spiration to local Girl Reserves.
The Home Nursing class is still
growing In numbers and inter-
est. Under the able instruction
OF Miss l.. N. Ross. the class is
learning how to take care Of sick
In the home. te recognize
early signs OF illness and to safe
guard the health of the family.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12

Flashing a superior ground Of
Tense, the Bearcats scored during
each quarter.
That night the Kats and Kit
tens highly entertained the de-
feated team with a dance at the
Ninth Street USO. Everyone en-
joyed jump and 1--WE music play
ed by Gilkey's Orchestra with
vocal numbers by talented mem
bers If the band and Dunbar
High School.
The Bearcats will play Corbin
High School, Pine Bluff, today.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
Branch Library
Featured

The Utopia Neighborhood I'm
provement Club of the Urban
League is cooperating with the
Colored Branch Library 1413 w,
10th Street in the observance of
Book Week-Nov. 1920.
The Colored Branch has re-
Gently been renovated. and about
600 new books have been added
to the present collection. In the
library will be found books for
every occasion, books for the old
and young. books to meet the
reading needs of every member
of the community. This is our
library, and all r urged to visit
the Colored Branch during Book
Week and to become regular u.s.
ers OF this cultural and educa-
tional facility.
Open house will be held from
Monday. November Is, through
Saturday, November 90, during
the hours of 200 to 500 D. m.
A very unique program and
Story Hour is planned for Sat-
urday, November 90, at 100 p.
m. There will be book games,
prizes and candy. Every one is
cordially invited. Admission is
free.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
'YMotes

Miss Elsie Mountain. general
secretary of the Paseo Branch
YWCA of Kansas City. Missouri.
was guest of Phyllis Wheatley
Branch last week.
Miss Mountain was the speak,
err at the Wednesday night SEES
sion of the wartime workshop, a
leadership institute held at the
Central YWCA. Miss Mountain
spoke on the subject. what It
Means to be a Branch" This talk
was very valuable as our own
Phyllis Wheatley has been q
branch for only a year. Miss
Annie B. Gillian also made q talk
at this meeting.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
NNLIA Sets Up
Information
Bureau

l4-man Anti-lnflation Committee
which will cover 26 states and the
District of Columbia, the Nation
al Negro Life Insurance Associa-
ton, representing the major
Negro life insurance companies
throughout the country, has be-
gun a consumer information pro-
gram in cooperation with the Of
flee of Price Administration, it
was Jointly announced this week
by Charles W. Greene, first vice
president Of the Association and
by OPA.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
Usher Union
Reports $l.60

The Golden Link Ushers Union
met with Miles Chapel CINE
Church, 5th and Bender St, with
d. G. Cleveland, president, in
charge Of the business session.
Miss Lille Mae Hill extended the
welcome address in behalf of the
most church. Rev. A. Bosley was
guest speaker for the afternoon.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12

with closing remarks made by A.
j.. Mcmahon and Jesse Brown.
Gospel Temple Bapt. Church was
designated as next meeting place
when the group meeting Is held,
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
Dunbar Hi Beats
Hope $50

With the greatest OF ease Dun
bar High School Bearcats defeat
ed Yerger High School Of Hope,
$50 last Friday, Novemer 9Th.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12
Warrant Officer @. KS Army

Fort Clark - Lovely ~Joequeine ~sheppord Of AIT Long Beech
Avenue. Los Angeles, California. is shown with Wonont Officer
Wilton Peek who recently finished preliminary troinns at Wor-
ront Officers school here. where he received his commission. o.
feer Peek spent q weeks furoush in chieoso visiting friends and
rslotives ond said thot his future duties foeine him with the ormy
will be O. K. now. for the durotion. Miss ~Sheppord offended mony
Molen Jordon, who received his commission at the same time os
Officer Peek.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12

Nov. 81.
Finance for the meeting was
announced as $3.50 by Mrs.
Mamie Wright, secretary.
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12

Bureau Of Public Relations. U. 8 War Department I
LETS SIT THIS ONE OUT. RAY!"- That is Sergeant Joe
Louis Barrows wen-earned advice to Corporal Walker (Sugar Ray
Rohnson) Smith, as the Louis troupe prepares fol- q rest in California.
Under direction OF the Special Service Division, Army Service Forces,
the group has appeared in So camps before 100000 enthusiastic sol.
diers. The tour started August 80. First Sergeant George Nicholson.
Corporal Robert J, Payne and Private George Wilson make up the
remainder of the Louis group. photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps).
Arkansas State press., 1943-11-12

The Knitting class also IN