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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-17

on the southern flank
of Europe.
The Britain-based heavy bomb
ers were unescorted and encount-
cred only slight resistance. They
shot down six Nazi planes with a
loss of only two bombers - one
more than on the Norway raid
July "a when the Trondheim naval
base and Heroya aluminium
works were attacked.
Molybdenum, used in hardening
steel, is vital in the manufacture
OF munitions. The Knaben mine,
located so miles northwest of
Kristiansund, was attacked last
February by Raj Mosquitoes. At
that time it was estimated that
the raid cut off three quarters OF
Germany's supply of Molybden-
mum, and a Swedish newspaper
said the mines production was
stopped for months.
The German-controlled Oslo ra-
clio was recorded by the Ministry
of Information as saying that sew
eral places in southern Norway
were attacked at noon by strong
American formations. The broad
cast acknowledged, however only
damage to some buildings
The raid continued series of
major American blows at the Ger
mans metal supply. Fortresses
bombed Dueren, near Cologne,
site of an important light-metal
processing plant for airplane
parts, on October 20 and Novem.
her 7.
The aerial campaign against
German war facilities across the
English channel was continued
during the day. meanwhile. but
swift Raj formations of light
bombers and fighters which attack
ed seaplane base near Brest,
an alcohol plant near St. Nazaire
and shipping and communications
throughout northern France.
There were also indications to-
night that the Allied attacks were
continuing. The Vichy radios five
station network went off the air
Continued on Page Ten; Col. s.
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Allied Planes Bomb
2 Big Jap Vessels;
Down 20 Fighters

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
HEADQUARTERS, Wednes-
day, Nov. II -tR- General
Macarthur announced today
that Allied planes had bomb
ed two large cargo ships, sink
ing one and forcing the other
to be beached.
One, of 5000 tons was sunk
at Rabaul.
Another large merchantmen
was damaged by bomb hits at
that New Britain stronghold.
The 5000 ton merchantmen
which had to be beached was
attacked off New Ireland.
On northeastern New Guinea,
Japanese planes raided Allied
airfields in the Ramu valley
and 20 were shot down.
General MacArthur's head
quarters said Avengar torpedo
planes had attacked japanese
positions in S uppor OF t n e
Americans h o ding Empress
Augusta bay on Bougainville.
(From the South Pacific
Headquarters of Adm. William
F.. Halsey came advices that
the Americans scored brief
advances Saturday but ran into
opposition and called on the air
support which was given with
success the following day.
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'RAF HITS BURMA
RAILROAD BASES
Pegu Heavily Pounded By
Heavy And Medium
Bombing Units

NEW DELHI, Nov. 49, Rl -
HAF heavy and medium bombers
teamed up for strong smash at
the Japanese railway junction at
Pegu, 46 miles northeast of Ran
coon, in Burma last night. a COM
munique said today, while more
sharp patrol actions were reported
CD land in the Chin hills area.
GA Reuters dispatch from Cal
cutta said an official announce
ment termed the blow on Pegu
"early today the heaviest and most
concentrated on Burma since the
war in the east began"
Successes in China were an
counced by the Chinese High
Command which declared that
Chinese troops had broken through
Japanese lines al many p o n S
south of the Yangtze river, and
to the north had cut to the out
skirts of Ichang and Tangyang,
some 80 miles northeast of Ichang.
Continued on Page Ten; Col. g.
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HullHighly Commended
By Official Red Press

MOSCOW, Nov. 16.--R-Izvestia,
the official Soviet government
newspaper, paid a striking tribute
to U. S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull in front page editorial today
and declared that the Russian peo-
pie highly appreciate the aid
given them by the United States
and Britain in the war against
Germany.
The newspaper, stressing the i'm.
portance of decisions reached at
the recent Moscow conference.
said Hull had played "a particu-
larly big role in the collaboration
between the U.S.S.R. and the
U.S.A' The editorial marked the
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|Yugoslaviians
Falling Back
beforely'n
Allie foe-Hold
1y Con-
d Leros
AIR SUPPORT HEAVY
Balkan Campaign Increas-
ing In Intensity As
Winter Opens

LONDON, Nov. 16.-(P)
Gen. Josip Broz' (Tito's)
Partisans were falling back
slowly in Yugoslavia tonight
before the weight of heavy
German assaults, but to the
east, in the battle for the Bal
kans, the Allies strengthened
their toe-hold on the bitterly
contested Aegean island of
Leros.
Allied air squadrons, based
in the Middle East, were
striking hard in support of
the ground forces in a cam
paign which is increasing in
fury as winter sets in along
Hitler's Balkan flank.
Airmen Ranged Aegean
Aside from heavy attacks on
German positions on Leros-where
Allied forces also are under vio-
lent air assault-Allied airmen
ranged the Aegean against enc
my shipping. U. S. bombers dis
abled a German destroyer while
British Spitfires and Hurricanes
raked the islands of Rhodes and
Crete. American bonfbers also
smashed at two airdromes near
Athens.
Tito, whose Yugoslav army of
Liberation for weeks has been con-
fronting Hitler with an ever sharp
ening menace, acknowledged in a
communique today that his Parti-
san forces had to withdraw from
positions on the Peliesac peninsu-
la on the lower Dalmatian coast
and in Dalmatia his forces gener-
ally were fighting defensive
struggle.
The Germans, in an effort to Sc
cure their Balkan battle lines for
the winter, were reported to have
hurled thousands of first-rate
troops into the struggle with the
Yugoslav Partisan forces and were
said to be paying heavily in men
and material for their gains.
A Middle East communique from
Cairo said that British troops in
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Camp Davis Officer
Candidate Schools
Quota Is Increased

CAMP DAVIS, Nov. 16.-An
increase in the December
quota Of incoming officer
candidates at the Anti-Aircraft
Artillery School here, over the
quotas for October and No
vember, was announced Tues
day by Brig. Gen. Bryan l..
l.. Mifburn, commandant of
the school.
Gen. Milburn pointed out
that this increase is not to be
taken as indicative of a re-
turn of the large monthly vol
ume received earlier in the
year as the quotas in nearly
all officer candidate schools
have bten reduced. The Camp
Davis school ranks second
highest among all Army in
struction centers.
The school at Camp Davis
was the first unit to begin the
IL weeks instruction period
which is now prevalent at all
OCS groups.
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Meat MERCHANTS
WILL BE HEARD
OPA Announces Several
Penalties On Local
Grocery Firms

Five meat sellers are scheduled
to appear before Acting Hearing
Commissioner T. Nelson Parker
here Wednesday to answer OPA
charges of price violation at the
City Market, Frank P. Spruill, Jr.,
OPA attorney, said late Tuesday
Meanwhile Spruill said that con-
sent agreements had been reached
on two cases involving alleged
price violations. They are with L.
6. Borneman, Live Oak Service
station and grocery, who has
agreed to a consent suspended
SUSPENSION for a 30-day period or
alleged charges of making over.
charges on grapefruit and failure
10 properly post point values on
processed foods and meals; and
with w. M. Abrams, Abrams Meat
Market. Armams, Spruill said, had
consented to an order which pro-
hibits the sale of goods under Ra'
ton Order No. 16-Which includes
fresh meats, fats, oils-for a two
week period beginning November
%. The remaining two weeks OF
the 3O-day period will be suspend
ed on probation that no further
violations occur.
In public hearings before Parker
Tuesday the following cases were
disposed of:
N. A. Merritt and E. E. Erb,
doing business as Open Air Curb
Market, 401 Chestnut street. were
ordered to suspend sales of fresh
meats for a 30-day period, sus-
pended for q days. During the
three active suspension days the
firm cannot buy. sell, or acquire
rationed meats under the order.
The hearing set for A. Living
ston, 201 Castle street, was con-
tinued until Thursday.
Martin Won Oesen, Home Gro
Gerry company, 401 North Front
street, was given a suspended sus-
pension by Hearing Commissioner
Parker for a 30-day period upon
condition that no further violations
occur.
H. M. Sellers, Sellers Fish Mar
ket, COS Castle street, was given
a suspension of 80 days with all
but three days suspended. During
the three active suspension days
the market cannot buy sell, or
acquire processed foods under Ra-
ton Order No. 10. The remaining
q days are suspended upon con.
clifton that no further violations &C.
cur
W. w. Guyton, Economy Gro
Gerry, 523 South Third street, was
found guilty on four counts of over
NnTA Nj
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(By The Associated Press

Wintery weather in Italy has
cut the Allied advance on Rome
tc a snairs pace, temporarily
neutr aHzing Anglo-American air
superiority which has been the
dominant factor in the campaign
in Russia, however, the oncoming
winter holds small prospect OF
even momentary relief for batter
ed Nazi armies from the Baltic to
the Black Sea.
On the contrary the hour has all
hut struck for dual new Rus
sian coup. The long dormant
northern front is about to flame
into full-scale Red army winter
attack to match the half score
other major offensives Berlin noted
as making progress farther south,
Only the scope and direction of the
attack remains in doubt, and the
exact moment for its launching.
The start of the Nazi rout in
Russia began just year ago at
Stalingrad. By November % the
pincers attack had been driven 80
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This smallest of all United
Nations has its proportionate
place in the National War Fund
picture.
The people Of Luxembourg
are fighting. 1t is not easy to
give them aid in their struggle,
but many Of their people have
escaped the Nazi yoke and need
assistance now in the refugees
which they have found in this
and other countries.
Funds to the Friends OF Lux
embourg, Inc, are used for
evacuation, rehabilitation and
relief of refugees in England,
Spain, Portugal, North Africa,
Switzerland, Cuba and Latin
America.
Friends of Luxembourg, Inc,
is Just one of the n agencies
included inthe Community War
Chest.
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debate on the anti-subsidy meas
ure, beginning Thursday, the
House Rules Committee refused
to grant special procedure which
those favoring subsidies had sought
in hopes of securing some compro-
mise allowing limited continuation
of the subsidy program.
Besides the items he enumerated,
Bowles said canned goods and
other items of food would increase
in cost if subsidies are discontinue
ed, and he predicted the War La
Dor Board would be unable to re-
sist pressure for higher wages.
Continued on Page Ten; Col. ~
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10th anniversary of the establish
ment of diplomatic relations be-
tween the two countries.
"Soviet-American relations have
had to pass through many expert
ences," the article continued, but
now it has become obvious that
they have become more solidified
and have become not only more
significant for both countries, but
for all the peoples Of the world
as well.
1.-THE recent Moscow conference
proved that cooperation between
the U.S.S.R., which was CONSOLE
Continued on Page Two; Col. n
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FOOD Price Rise Sighted
It Subsidies Are Killed

p, WASHINGTON, Nov IS Up
les 80. administrator Chester Bow
sbol Ss1o tonight that if Congress
rjs slshes food subsidies milk will
Gem. cent a quart cheese three
haN S pound, butter four and one.
Cent. cents, and meats two to six
cents ,r a pound. WV W s4N
The NC Price administrator went on
stron 1ao nc blue Network with a
aften = plea for continued subsidies
subeia tiouSe consideration of anti.
and '. ~ was set for next THURSDAY
was We price roll back program
The ' g sssailed by witnesses before
In ord a.e Agriculture Committee
''oerlng two days of genera!
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RULING IS NEAR
ON ACL REQUEST
Utilities Commission Nav
Pass On Petition
For Change

The State Utilities Commission
Is expected to rule shortly on the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad COM
panys petition to allow ''mixed
1 maln service" On its line between
wilmington and Fayetteville.
Inc railroad presented argu-
m 1 in favor Of allowing com.
e einatlon through passenger and
M a service at hearing Mon
gay with the commission in Ra.
ieish' II the company's request
~ granted this will eliminate one
passenger train, which would be
n na;,'et to the run between vii.
N'plsloh anc Rocky Mount.
~; aeVeral weeks ago the commits.
\ t sSa handed down a ruling denying
. I[ railroads. request that it be
a an0"ea to discontinue all passen.
81 5'' SCI service between the two towns
b tm order to increase its service
s sp1 Wilmington, Rocky Mount
and points north.
'poksmen for the railroad said
t0nfiuu.,
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CHEST UNITS END
DRIVE OVER GOAL
Other Reports Say That
Campaign Progress
ing Rapidly

Several units in the Community
War Chest Campaign of Whining.
ton and New Hanover have COM
nseted their individual drives and
gone lover the top.''
To the L. A. Raney Chevrolet
company goes the honor of being
the first firm to complete its
campaign and report over goal.
ITO per cent of its objective was
reported by campaign workers.
The Victory Restaurant has reach
co 101 per cent of its objective.
Both are in the commercial divi-
sion.
The first firm in the Individual
division to go over its goal was
Robert R. Bellamy and Son which
reached 108 per cent of its quota
early Tuesday.
In the public employees division
the New Hanover County Home
and the New Hanover County Reg
lister of Deeds office hit 101 per
cent Of their goals. The New Han
over County Defense Council re-
ported 100 per cent of its quota
pledged.
Early reports from other sources
indicate that the campaign is pro-
ceeding at a fast clip. But with
a goal of $145, 399 facing the city
Of Wilmington. and New Hanover
County officials declare the road
ahead will call for generous giving
on the part of every Individual.
Careful organization has been
the keynote Of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway campaign which is
now getting under way. Robert
Scott, chairman, said Monday
night that every employe in his
unit would have an opportunity
to contribute.
The North Carolina Shipbuilding
company campaign is entering its
important stage and leaders at
the yards hope to complete their
immense task within the schedul-
ed time.
Catherine Grove, secretary OF
the 8A1' class at Tileston school,
has notified the Community War
Chest that her class has pledged
fourteen dollars to the fund and
will expect to pay two dollars on
the 18th of every month. II am
sure" she writes, leach pledge
has been offered freely, and we
consider it a privilege to be able
to contribute to the vital work
your organization is doing, both
in the nation and in many parts
of the world"
Complete reports are scheduled
for Friday of this week and N.
E. .Drexler, general chairman OF
the Community War Chest Drive,
urged all leaders and commit
teemen to do thorough soliciting
Job and make reports promptly.
They have been instructed to re-
rort Friday and Saturday of this
week and Monday and Tuesday
of next week. The drive is sche-
duled tn close November "a.
| Volunteer workers in the Mems
and Womens divisions of the Com
munitv War Chest campaign will
open their active solicitation follow
ing a "Reveille Roundup Break
FAST Wednesday at s a. m. Work
ers in these divisions will receive
their final instructions and work
kits and will be charged with the
responsibility of visiting every bust.
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Norwegian Metal Mines
Hard Hit By Fortresses

LONDON Nov l6.-F)-Large formations of Amer
lean heavy bobers fought their way 700 miles the
North Sea through heavy storms today to strike at
Germanys essential metol supply bombing molybdenum
mine at Knaben the west coast of Norway and
station at Rukan approximately 80 miles west of Oso
The Flying Fortress and Lberator attack the north
side of Germanys European fortress followed up u
18th Air Force raid yesterday Nazi bases
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Fathers Call
MayBeMade
Last On List
Congressman Agree On In
auctions On Nation
Wide Basis
SAID STRONG RULING
order OF War Labor Board
On 'Non-Essentials'
Threatened
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1e.
Up - The Congressional
deadlock over legislation to
case the draft impact on
fathers was broken today
when a senate-House COM
mittee agreed on a compro-
nj embodying the princi-
nIe that no father anywhere
IN the nation should be call
ed while non-father is
available.
This was the main point of
measure passed by the
House October 26 but re-
iected by the Senate which
earlier had approved a bill
10 TIGHTEN regulations for
deferment of non-fathers.
Subject to Ratification
Chairman May D.-Ky) of the
House Military Committee called
The compromise worked out with
representatives of the Senate Mill
tarv Committee an even stronger
BIZ than the House passed"
Tie conferees' agreement is sub
iect to Senate and House ratifica-
ion. 1t is to be submitted to the
House first on Thursday.
The measure would direct that
fathers with children born before
September Is, 1912, be placed at
Tie bottom of the draft list and
none be indicted if a non-father
is available for all by any local
craft board anywhere. Non-fathers
deferred because of employment
on vital war work would not. how
ever, be classed as available.
One effect of the bill would be
TO nullify the order of the War
Manpower Commission that bar
tenders, race track employees and
other workers listed by VINO as
'non-essential," be indicted with
cut regard to whether or not they
have dependents
This would mean, the Senate
House conferees said, no more
rev work or fight orders.
The measure also would direct
lie president to withdraw all pow
PES over Selective Service n o W
held by ManpoWer Chairman Paul
McNutt, but if he wished the
president could re-delegate them
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j. s. Knocked
From Heights
Near Venafro
Bitter Fighting Awaits AL
lies In Drive Toward
City OF Rome
WEATHER IS WORSE
Cold And Mud Slowing Ad-
vance AS Germans
Dig Trenches

A L L I E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Nov. 16.-(P)
German troops, counter
attacking from their power
full rock-hewn winter line,
have knocked American for
ces back from hard-won
heights north of Venafro, the
Allied command acknowledge
ed today, and direct word
from the cold, rainy italian
front made plain that bitter
fighting awaits the Allies on
the road to Rome.
Neither Tunisia nor Sici-
ly presented the difficulties
which the Allied troops must
overcome before they drive
the enemy into northern Ita-
ly, and it is becoming obvious
that neither of those cam
paigns cost the blood this
drive will cost" wrote Don
Whitehead of the Associated
Press from the Fifth Army
front.
For the time being, both
the Allies and Germans were
digging into the mud for shell
ter from the inclement wea-
ther and from shellfire, and
comparatively small forces
were battling for a few yards
Of rocky hilltop, valuable on
ly. because they overlook a
further goal.
Nazis C0unterattack
The Nazis counterattacked twice
yesterday with strong, fresh troops
to shove 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's
American infantry off positions
they had won on Monte Santa
Croce, north of Venafro. This key
peak dominates the entrance to
plain northwest OF M;gnano, which
in turn gives access to the stra-
tegic city of Casino on the main
inland highway to Rome.
The British Eighth Army, defy
ing the weather and consequent
absence of air support, won some
new high ground north of Atessa,
IA miles in from the Adriatic, and
its patrols ranged across the San
gro river to feel out the enemy's
strength. German resistance was
stiff along the length of the front.
With the usual swarms of Allied
fl g h tie r S and fighter bombers
grounded by rain, fog and low
hanging clouds, heavy Liberator
bornbers of the 18th U. S. Air
Force were joined by Lend-Lease
Liberators of the reorganized Yu-
goslav air force in smash at
Elevsis airdrome at Athens, while
American mediums pounded anoth-
err Nazi field in the Athens area.
The relatively static position OF
the front for the past week is Civ
ing the Germans ample time to
strengthen their mountain fortifl-
cations in depth. Even a break
through of the present Nazi line
would leave the Allies ONLY in po-
sition to continue the hard foot
by-foot fighting. In his dispatch
today, Whitehead drew dreary
picture:
The roads to the front e
Shiny brown strips Of mud. Rains
have turned the countryside into
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UNDER GUN SIGHTS
Germans Hurled From Obi.
| khodi In Plunge To-
| ward Goal
TURCHENKA CAPTURED
go Towns And Villages
Gobbled Up By Pre-
mier Stains Hordes

LONDON, Nov. 1e.-(R
The Russian Ukranian ar
my drove for the railway
junction of Korosten from
the south and northeast to-
day, pounding to within Is
miles of the important COM
munications line now under
its artillery sights, a COM
munique disclosed tonight.
Capturing 60 towns and
villages in the swift advance,
the Russians flung the Ger
mans from Obikhodi (Obu-
kody), 10 miles east of the
railroad and 16 miles from
Korosten to the southwest.
Another Russian column,
surging up the railway from
Zhitomir to the south, cap
tured the town of Turchen-
ka, IA miles south of Koros-
ten.
Korosten, IS miles from
the pre-war Polish border, is
one of the main Nazi east
west lines of supply, the
Odessa Leningrad line and
is also on the Kiev-Warsaw
line.
Another Line Attacked
The next German east-west line
to the north was under Russian
attack in the Rechitsa region,
where the Russians were push
ing for the key town Of Kahn
kovichi.
The Moscow comnlunique, rec
orded by the Soviet monitor from
broadcast, said the Red army,
which yesterday cut the railway
leading from Gomel west to Ka-
linkovichi, captured ten more Ger
man strongpoints and the enc
my Sustained tremendous losses
m manpoyer and equipment"
Mentioning the sector north Of
Gomel for the first time, the bull
letin said hte army had captured
a number of Nazi strongholds and
considerably improved its position
as it engaged the Germans to ex-
tend Soviet bridgeheads on the
west bank of the Sozh river. The
river, in this area, comes down
to an eastward bulge before flow
ing to the eastern edge of Gomel.
Although the major Russian
gains of the day were made in the
Korosten area, there was no Sow
let mention of Russians pushing
west from nearby Zhitomir to-
ward the pre-1941 Polish border.
The extent of Russian penetra-
tation west of Zhitomir remained
in doubt A Moscow dispatch yes
terday said swift Red army me-
chanized and motorized columns
had driven from Kiev through
Zhitomir to Baranovka, thrusting
& dangerous salient into the Ger
man positions to a depth of 112
miles west of Kiev and 1865 miles
from the Polish border of 1941.
This would place the head of the
salient some 40 miles west of
Zhitomir and about IS miles east
of the pre-war Polish-Russian
frontier. Large scale maps show
a town named Baranovka at that
Point. However, maps also show
2 town of the same name some
50 miles north northeast of Zhito-
mir. Soviet sources here were
without definite information as to
which Banarocka had been taken
and recheck from Moscow was
not Immediately available.
The Berlin radio commentator
Capt. Ludwig Sertorious said the
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Colder in cas-
portion today.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hour.
ending 1880 PM, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 81; 1880 am, 81; 1880 pm
IS; 7:30 pm, So
Maximum, So; minimum, 50; mean
Ga; normal, IS.
Humidity
1880 am, SO; 80 am, s.; 80 pm,
81; 7:30 pm, rs.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:3t
pm, 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
Oh inches.
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by
=, Co,c+ ,pd Geodetic SurVey).