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S0LON DEMANDS
KIMMEL TRIAL
Former Navy Chief At
Pearl Harbor Should
Be Heard, He Says

WASHINGTON, Oct. II. -P-
An immediate court martial to
bring out AL the facts, condi-
tons and circumstance" of the
successful japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor December 7, 194l
was demanded today by Rep. Cole
(R-NY).
Cole made his demand in com
menting on published reports that
i Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, who
was naval commander at Pear
Harbor at the time of the attack,
II has written the Navy Department
asking such a quick trial.
The Navy did not confirm the
reports Immediately. It said that
no such letter had been received
as. yet. At Denver, Col. Harry
Leonard, Marine Corps. said he
| had been retained by Kimmel as
counsel and that letter was writ
T, ten last week, but he declined &c
discuss its nature.
Cole, member Of the House
Naval Committee, said:
81 feel Admiral Kimmels re.
quest should be granted so that
all of the facts, conditions ano
circumstances surrounding the at
tack on Pearl Harbor may be
brought into the open.
This will not only fix responsl-
bility for someone's failure, but
will determine what needs to be
done so that such a thing won
happen again"
Cole said that if the Navy De-
partment does not order the court
martial, he will ask Congress to
direct the department to DO so OF
to create a special committee to
hear Kimmels case.
ut is not fair to the public, nor
to Kimmel,' Cole commented, 10
keep sealed information that WIN
the passage of time is bound to
be dissipated.
A two-year statute of limitations
applying to such cases expires
next December 7. However, the
war Department announced or
October 2 that Kimmel and Lieut.
enant General Walter c. Short, Tor
mer Army commander at Hawaii
had voluntarily agreed to waive
the statute of limitations.
When Gen. Short was asked a.
Dallas today whether he hao re-
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MAY Be GOAL
Island Seems Next On List
OF Drives Against
Japanese
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Tuesday, Oct. 12-lR-Bougain-
vile, strongly-held enemy island
base at the northern end of the
Solomons, apparently is the next
major objective Of American
forces clearing the japanese from
this island group in the South
Pacific.
With its surrounding bases in
the Buin-Faisi area, Bougainville
is one of the last defensive islands
in the perimeter the Nipponese
constructed around Rabaul, their
strongpoint On New Britain, to the
northwest. Unofficial estimates
place the number of enemy troops
on Bougainyille at 10000 to 50,-
900.
Complete control of the central
and southern Solomons came with
occupation of Kolombangara is
land, announced yesterday by
General Douglas Macarthur. Villa
airfield, hammered into useless
ness by continuous air attack, and
all of Kolombangara were occu-
pied without a shot being fired.
The operation began October 6
with seizure Of the airfield and
was completed three days later.
For weeks the enemy, at a
heavy cost in equipment and lives,
had been fleeing northward in
barges to Choiseul island. Not a
single japanese was seen alive
on Kolambangara, but they left
behind wrecked guns and planes
as we'll as stores of munitions OF
war.
Despite heavy bombing of its
bases by U. S. planes, Bougain.
vile probably has been strength
ened in recent months by troops
from Rabaul, said a dispatch from
William Nipple, Associated Press
war correspondent at South Pa.
cific headquarters. In addition, it
was believed some troops evacu-
ated to Choiseul, which is lightly
held by the enemy, had been re-
moved to Bougainville.
1t is regarded likely, Nipple
reported, that We japanese will
make a strong stand at Bougain-
vile. This would be the reverse
of their tactics on New Georgia,
Kolombangara and Vella Lavella,
all of which they gave up with
out a major fight. Bougainville,
with its large airbase at Kahili on
the south coast, and its harbor
on the east coast at Kieta, is OF
great strategic importance. With
it in Allied hands, a mighty pin
GERS operation could be launched
against Rabaul.
Australians punching northward
through inland New Guinea toward
Madang cleared another route to
faat enemy coastal base by wip-
ing out a stubborn rearguard
blocking a road.
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Pennsylvania Rail
Wreck Is Adjudged
Accident By Jury

-. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. IL
"a coroner's jury ruled to-
day that the Labor Day wreck
OF the Pennsylvania railroads
congressional limited, which
Killed 70, was accidental.
Testimony taken at an in
guest did not justify holding
anyone criminally responsible,
the verdict said.
The jurors report held that
the cause of the wreck was 4
hot box" The cause of the
hot box, it added, was not
established by the evidence.
The Washington to New York
Express, carrying a holiday
crowd, piled up at Frankfort
junction here September s in
one of the worst disasters in
rail history.
The Interstate Commerce
Commission said in Washing
ton last Tuesday after an In
vestigation that the cause was
broken journal. caused by a
hot box. Its report contained
no recommendation.
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QPA MAY BRING
DEMOCRAT Loss
Senator's Think Policies OF
Office Can Cause
Revolution

WASHINGTON. Oct. 11.-P-
Two western Democrats predict
60 Today a 1914 defeat for their
party that may reach the proper
lions OF revolution" unless. as
'aey put it, the Office of Price Ad.
,nlAlstratlon can be, forced tc
stop its persecution of honest
Citizens"
Senator Thomas D-okla), ar
appropriations committee man
threatened to seek new restrictions
III opA spending as a means o.
cohllhhg its activities to the du.
YES authorized by Congress-"
Applauding this course, Senator
'OAAson D-Colo) declared:
People generally are sympa
W.T., sisoc with the objective of hold
.ns oo"n prices. but the unreas
s Wild }, of some of the OPl
80 are driving them mad
~, 'olhe OF the regulations are 81
LUMINOUS and so restrictive tina
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astride the Biferno were closing
in along both sides of the river
with a little farther to 60.
There seems no alternative for
the Nazi but a quick withdrawal
in the center-south of Vinchiaturo
to escape an Allied entrapment.
With the fall of Vinchiaturo, the
enemy front would be broken, COM
polling withdrawal probably be-
hind the Senagro river on the east
flank and to a line based on the
Gaeta-Sora road up the valley of
the Liri on the west.
It is possible, of course, that the
Fifth Army break-through across
the Galore is aimed at thanking
sweep westward down the river to
it's junction with the Volturno and
thence down the right bank of the
Volturno. The upper course of the
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FISHERMAN SAID
TO Be MISSING
Search Conducted Al
Beach For J. K. Mckee
OF Oleander Court

Coast Guard personnel and pri-
vate boats were searching late
Monday night for J. R. johnny
Mckee, 29-year-old Wilmingtonian,
believed to have been drowned
shortly after the boat from which
he was fishing capsized abou,
sunset Monday.
Chief of Police G. H. Hines OF
Wrightsville beach said that NC
Kee was fishing with his brother,
w. D. Mckee of 10 Longwood
Drive, Wilmington, and L. w. Rog-
ers of Seagate. After the boat
capsized, he said, the three swan
to a strip of marsh and shortly at
forwards the missing man at
tempted to swim back to the cap
sized boat to retrieve some OF
their belongings.
He has not been seen since.
w. D. Mckee and Rogers were
rescued by Coast Guard boat
from the Coastal Picket station at
Wrightsville Sound, under the
command of Boatswain B. B. Odin.
Neither man was seriously in
jured by the accident, Odin said.
McKee's wife and three children
live in Oleander Court apartment.
He was associated with his broth
er, w. D., in the Mckee Ice and
Coal company here.
Rogers is an employe OF the
American Bakeries company.
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en- and girls. In addition there
were 292,016 registered non-mem-
bers, Mr.. Huntington reported,
quoting from the recently publish
ed Y. M. C. A. Year Book. The
local association reported 1895,
an increase of 357 over 1871.
These figures do not tell the
complete story Of Y. M. c. A. ser
vices to the youth Of America,
according to Mr.. Huntington, who
estimated that from two to two
and-one-half million young Amer
leans benefit from Y. M. C.. A. &C
tivities annually.
During the past year it cost
$50, BOB, 200, which was almost
seven million dollars more than
the previous twelve month period,
to provide boys and young men
with the many chatacter-building
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Four Way Allied Attack Seems Near
Against Vinchiatur0 Road Junction

Volturno, above Galore confluence,
must be crossed in that case, how.
ever, and the drive northward in
stead to take Vinchiaturo in
multi-pronged pincer grip would
yield larger and quicker results.
1t would also follow exactly tho
tactical pattern evolved by Gem
eral Eisenhower staff in the Bat
tie of Sicily. In that fast-paced
fight to push the foe off the big
island without a costly frontal at.
tack on the Mount Etna bastion,
Allied staff work relief heavily on
swiftly shifting the stress of turn
ing movements from the center to
the left or coastal flank and back
again as opportunity offered.
The Volturno loop offers a well
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local YMCA To Forego Celebration
vt Founders Week Because OF War

activities offered by the Y. M. c.
AS, he stated.
In this period citizens contrib
,,ted Sill, 7s3, 300 to Y. M. c. AS
investment in plants and equip,
men, totalled $21s,267, 100, and
Sc, el4,2oo was spent in property
'''s There were 1os7s1 different
clubs and groups with total en-,
ro1lrnent Of 2,2s5,5s3 and a total
attendance of 5o,o23, 500. There The ,eo was as
a total attendance OF 10, 7S, 4ov "a al
Y M. C. A. activities without tho 1oo oeit-
mite enrolment, while o'o14,.uo a..
tended Y. M. c. A. sp so nao clubs cl,h:
Every day nearly ao ;. 'N''
mo More than $1,000 jobs were
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BRITISH DAMAGE
NAU BATTLESHIP
Midget Subs Sneak Into
Norwegian Hide-Out
OF The Tirpitz

LONDON, Oct. 11.-(R-British
midget submarines, penetrating
the heavily guarded Norwegian
hideout of the German fleet, have
crippled the mighty battleship Tir-
pitt and left her apparently i'm
modified.
Three of the small subs-a hith.
erto undisclosed weapon for the
British-are missing. A group OF
the subrnersibles. 1000 miles from
home. threaded their way some
so miles into narrow Alien ford,
through mine fields and heavy pa
trolls, to attack the Tirpitz Septem-
Der %, an Admiralty announce.
ment today disclosed. They at
tackled the Tirpitz beneath her wa
treline.
The size of the raiding force was
not disclosed, but the announce
ment said that three submarines
had failed to return and there was
possibility some of their crews
had been captured by the Ger
mans.
The Admiralty said it was i'm
possible to assay the damage at
the time of the attack, but recon-
naissance photographs taken three
weeks later showed the 35,000-ton
pride of the Nazi fleet had not
moved from her anchorage and
oil spouting from her great tanks
had spread for two miles.
Usually conservative to the ex-
IRENE, the Admiralty's description
of the exploit use dscuh terms
as Involving hazards of the first
ORDER" magnitude of the difficult
ties" and "displayed the highest
qualities of courage, enterprise,
and skill"
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YUC0SLAVS CLAIM
FALL OF CHERS0
Liberation Army Says 1t
Controls Major Part
OF Dalmatia

LONDON, Oct. II. -tP)- The
Yugoslav liberation army claimed
tonight the capture of the impor'
tant island of Cherso, which COM
mands the entrance to the Gull
of Fiurne, and said it controlled
the whole coast of northern Dali
malta except for the German &C.
cupied fort at lara.
The 30-mile long and eight-mile
wide island of Cherso is Is miles
east Of the Italian naval base OF
Pola at the head of the 1strian
peninsula and 20 miles south OF
Fiume which the Partisan forces
of Gen. Drug Tito say they have
under direct attack.
The capture of Cherso was an
nounced in a communique broad
cast by the free Yugoslav radio.
In addition to holding the north
ern Dalmatian coast, the Yugoslav
patriots said they had occupied
all of the Myriad islands along the
coast.
The partisans said the Germans
were falling back in the Susak
area, just across the bridge from
Fiume.
Other fresh successes announc-
ed by the patriots as their forces
were engaged in widespread op-
erations along the whole north
eastern arc around the shores OF
the Adriatic and along railway
lines leading from the coast to
German supply bases and rail-
road functions in the interior,
were the capture Of Bijeljina, Is
miles south of Vinkovci and about
the same distance west of the for
mer capital at Belgrade, the town
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~ aeeause OF wartime conditions
bro o because Of plans for the cele-
ss Tsloh OF the centennial anniver-
Msss,ao i y the founding of the Young
yea r = Chrlstlan association next
s Fan ,1 founders Week, which be.
bra , monday 1y will not be cele-
as , ns,a by the Wilmington YMCA
eral Ns sesn. J. B. Huntington, gen
n secretary, said Monday night.
tbs selleeting wartime conditions
Der : ~ was a decrease in the num-,
the u s young 1 men who enrolled in
unjtaadi' ou :, Y. M. c. AS in the NJ.
Year, ;a'e0 .ns States during the - p sst
f beT - and an increase in the the 1 pas'
bsrs u !, young men and girl ile r 1,e,,,.
Us ws tne , total membership, s7a..
Young me-, o0ys' while 294,s1 were
men and loS,O9s were WON.
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FIR WANTS CHINESE
TO ENTER AMERICA
President Calls On Con.
gress To Grant Citizen
ship To Aliens

| WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-tP-
President Roosevelt urged Con
gress today to let Chinese enter
this country and grant American
citizenship to them and the Chi
nese already here.
I'VE owe it to the Chinese" he
said in a special message hearth
ly approving legislation the House
will take up neyt week to repea.
the old Chinese exclusion law ane
extend citizenship.
Enactment of the repeater wou]c
correct a historic mistake" anc
extension of the privileges of cit
izenshep would operate as an
other meaningful display of friend
ship" for a gallant ally, Mr.. Roos
evelt argued.
The 1910 census showed 81, 24s
foreign born Chinese In This com
try, and if Congress should put
immigration on par with other
countries, 105 more could be sd
mitted annually.
There can be no reasonable ap
prehension that any such number
of immigrants will cause unem
ployrnent or provide competition
in the search for jobs" the presi
dent said.
House leaders say the legisla
ton will succeed. but there is op
position and speeches from bott
sides may be expected. Rep. Ell
mer (R-Mo) argued strongly
against it before the rules com.
mittee last week and Rep Aller
(D-La) has been fighting the pro
posal.
The opposition springs from the
historic stand against what is
sometimes called "coolie labor
early Chinese immigrants help
ed build transcontinental railroad
lines for $35 month 1t has beer
argued that any rela sation of i'm
migration bars might set prece'
dent which would lead to flood o.
in:r'' grants cor+estias with ma
tive Americans for ;ohs.
Mrs. Roosevelt keynoted argu
ments for the legislation:
"China is our ally. For man,
long years she stood alone in The
fight against aggression. Toda,
we fight at her side. She has con
tinued her gallant struggle agains
very great odds.
eve and our allies will aim ou
forces at the heart of Japan i,
ever increasing strength until tn
common enemy is driven from
China's SAIL he added after re
peating a pledge to hurry substan
tial aid to this ally.
"But China's resistance does no
depend alone on guns and plane
and on attacks on land, on the Sc;
and from the air. 1t is based a!
much in the spirit Of her people
and her faith in her allies. We owl
it to the Chinese to strengthen
that faith
Besides, he said, the Legislation
would "silence the distorted Jap
anese propaganda.
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Russian Army
Crashes Into
Comel's Gate
Entire 200 Mile German
Line In White Russia
Is Menaced
WEST BANK CROSSED
Soviet Troops Widening
Holes Punched In
Dneiper Holdings

LONDON, Oct. 11.-(P-
The Red army crashed into
the vital rail suburbs of Co.
mel today, threatening to
flank the entire 200-mile
German line in White Rus
STA and snap it's link with the
middle Dnieper river, where
Soviet forces spilled on west
ward through three WIDEN
ing holes established on the
west bank, Moscow announc-
ed tonight.
(Russian troops "already
have penetrated the outer de-
Tense of Kiev," Ukraine capt
sal on the Dnieper, the Lon
don radio said in a broadcast
recorded by CHS. It also
quoted Berlin as announcing
heavy Russian attacks in the
Nogaisk steppes, on the
northern approaches to the
Crimea.
Novo-Belitsa Is Seized
A communicate broadcast by the
Moscow radio and recorded by
Reuters announced the Red army
seizure of Novo-Belitsa, rail
junction suburb of Gomel on tn
eeast bank of the Sozh river just
across from the main prize, whose
railways radiate to Warsaw, Minsk
and Mogilev.
Other localities were seized in
the Golnel sector as the Russians
steadily hurled back the Germans
on the northern edge of the Pripet
marshes.
Two hudnred miles to the north
other Soviet troops converging on
Vitebsk, the upper anchor of the
Axis White Russian defense line,
raced through 40 more villages.
In heavy day and night fighting
beyond the punctured Dnieper riv-
er line the Russians Continued
their offensive in the same direc-
tons as before, extending their
bridgeheads and considerably i'm
proving their positions" the COM
munique said.
Dispatches reaching here said
there was a possibility the Ger
mans already were pulling out OF
Kiev as successful Russian cross
ings above and below the capital
imperilled the city, which already
is under fire from Soviet big guns
mounted on the eastern bank just
across the Dnieper.
"Our divisions have penetrated
far beyond the river" said a
front correspondent of Moscow S
Pravda," and have captured the
defense zone of the Germans along
the river and dozens OF settle.
ments on the western bank"
Moscow dispatches i d Red
army engineers had accomplished
some Of their finest feats Of the
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BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

A four-way Allied attack on Vim
chiaturo road junction, e n r
commune atoms key to the Nazi
delaying stand across the Italian
peninsula, appears to be develop
ing. It bids fair to shake the foe
loose from the whole Volturno-Bi-
ferno river front in a matter of
hours.
The Fifth Army's crossing of the
Galore river in force to take Pom
telandolfo put General Clark
right flank within less than 20
miles of the junction down t h e
Tammaro valley due south. Di-
rectly to the east on the Rome
Foggia main highway. Ell 6 h t h
Army elements at Gambatesa were
not much more distant, while to
the north other Eighth Army units
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County's Rat
Control Plan
Strikes Snag
Commissioner Trask De-
tides To Give Matter
More Thought
ORDINANCE ADOPTED
Ro,rd OF Health Passes
law To Compel Citizen
Compliance

The campaign to establish
far-reaching rat contro
a ia, struck a snag Mon
5av afternoon when County
G rss,n,nissioner George w
T Tr,, declined to declare wal
An ,"t the rodents without fur
t II thought.
III Holding the deciding vote
soranse a bare quorum of the
commissioners was present
tor the weekly meeting, Mr.
Task refused to take action
ether way and told Chairman
ADDISON Hewlett and Com
rss'oner Harry Gardner.
Who made the motion for ap-
rov9l Of the project, that he
~rI have to think it over
r"
Revolving Fund Asked
rs motion was that the county
= up a revolving fund.- to IA
f~ste rat-proofing Of buildings.
and that the commissioners ap-
move diversion of unexpended
finds from the city-oounty board
Of health budget to further the
control project, provided that the
civ concurs in the action.
The matter was automatically
deferred until next week.
' Revealing that the b o a + d of
health recently adopted an ordi-
nance which could be used to COM
pei property owners IL the county
10 have their structures rat-proof-
ed, Chairman Hewlett told IN e
group that the project was being
undertaken at the insistence Of the
u. S. Public Health service to rid
Wilmington of the possibilities of
rat-born typhus fever epidemic.
The purpose of the projects So
Coz revolving fund. he said, was
to provide money for the purchase
Of tin and other materials for rat
prooflng buildings. Persons con-
Quoting the campaign, he a i d,
would make agreements with the
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NAILS IN DANGER
Complete Enemy Defense
Position On Volturno
Is Jeopardized
HIGHWAY STRADDLED
Americans And British
Control Road Toward j
Mediterranean !

ALLIE D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Oct. 11.-(P)
Fighting their way north
westward from Benevento
through sticky Italian mud,
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's
American and British forces
have captured Pontelandolfo
and thrown into jeopardy the
entire Nazi defense position
along the flood-swept Voltur-
no river north of Naples.
Seizure of Pantelandolfo,
IL miles beyond Benevento,
placed the Allies astride a
main highway which winds
westward to the Mediterran-
can coast above the Volturno.
The Nazis either must meet
this new threat successfully
or soon resume their full
S cale withdrawal toward
Rome.
Pontelandolfo, on the east
ern flank of the Volturno
where it turns northward, is
in the mountainous country
between that stream and the
Tammaro river and about six
miles north of one bend of
the Galore river.
Foe Fighting Hard
1.-THE enemy continues to fight
hard and is using broken and diff
ficult country to assist his de.
fense," said today's Allied COM
munique. Demolitions still are be.
ing met on a heavy scale"
Allied patrols were reported
skirmishing with the Germans on
the north bank of the Volturno,
but no immediate effort to cross
the stream in force was expected.
German artillery was concentrate
ed to lay a destructive fire On
the more obvious crossings of the
swollen rvier.
Ordinarily the Volturno is only
waist deep, but recent rains have
sent water racing between its steep
10 to 15-foot banks. The winding
stream varies from 100 feet to 200
yards in width.
With Clark's main forces stalled
temporarily against this water
barrier, the Allied air force made
shattering attacks against the Nazi
defenses along the river, particu-
larly at a point about five miles
north of Capua.
Fleets of medium, light and
fighter bombers-the same Flying
artillery that was used with de-
vastating effect in Tunisia-bomb-
ed and shot up dozens of enemy
gun positions along 40-mile front.
fThe United Nations radio at AL
giers, in broadcast heard by
federal monitors, reported that
artillery duels were raging across
the Volturno and that the Nazis
appeared to be massing for a
There was no indi-
cation where the enemy might be
preparing to launch such an at
tack.)
On the Adriatic end OF the Italian
line Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's British and Cana.
dams of the Eighth Army were re.
ported slugging their way slowly
forward against intense opposi-
ton, averaging gains yesterday Of
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