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RailPayRaise
5 ssue Is Given
20 New Board
Trio Will Consider Request
OF Million Non-Op-
Grating Employees
F. R. SETS DEADLINE
Operating Brotherhoods To
Ascertain Sentiment
For Strike Action

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16- Up -
The year-long effort of more than
100000 incorporating railroad
employes( clerks, shopmen, etc.
to obtain a wage increase was
tossed into the lap of another EN-
ergency board by President Roose
welt today.
This action came as the time
neared for meeting of the operat
ing brotherhoods (trainmen, en-
ginemen, etc. to ascertain senti
ment for strike action in protes'
against a four cents an hour raise
The president named Elwyn R
Shaw. Springfield, Ill; Richard
F. Mitchell. Fort Dodge, Iowa
and Walter c. Clephane, of this
city. to reconsider the demands
of the Is incorporating unions
which have been pending since
September, 1942.
Sets Deadline
He gave the board, second Of
its kind to tackle the case, unit
Nov. Is to report and said its re
Communications, which must bt
within the limits of his stabiliza
ton program, would take effec
Is days after that date unless
changed by Fred M. Vinson. econ
omic Sterilization director.
The first board reported las
May, recommending an increase
of 8 cents an hour in contrast tx
the 20 cents sought by the work
ers. The workers were not en-
titled to a further increase un
der the little steel formula limit
ing wage increases to Is per cen
of the January, 194l, levels.
But he proposed instead grad
mated scale of increases based OF
the elimination of sub-standard
and asked the emergency boare
to reconsider on this basis. Thi
it refused to do and the boart
dissolved.
May Consider Old Report
In creating the new board today
the president asked it to submit
recommendations in conformity
with Wilson'S opinion of June 80
He also said the board may Civ
such consideration as it deems ap
propriate" to the report flied b.
the board last month which pro
posed the 4 cents an hour increas,
for the 100000 operating brother
hood members.
The operating unions had ask
ed an increase of 80 per cent o
S. a day, whichever was the high
er in the case of each individual
The 4 cents amounted to a 4 j.
per cent raise, the board holding
there were no Substandards of liv
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA: Colder east portion and
continued cold west portion Sunday ana
Sunday evening.
Marine Forecast
Small craft warnings displayed south
of Hatteras to Jacksonville.
a Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the ~ hours
ending 1880 p. M. Yesterday
TEMPERATURE
1870 a. m So; 1870 a. m.' ~, i 10,
n M, 76; 1870 p. M, 81. Maximum ~ 'o'
Minimum 60; Mean SO: Normal %.
HUMIDITY
40 a. M, 81; 1880 a. m.' w. i'''
M. a.: $50 p. M, d..
A''' PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hours ending 'o'
n. M. 900 inches. A.. o,,+h
Total since the first OF the ihoA'i
o'oo 'nche TIDES FOR TODAY =.
<r.o,, +ha ride Tables published o0
r. Coast and Geodetic SurveylI
-,r;~. $40 a. M: Sunset. ~ p. H.
Moonrise. 1855 p; Moonset' ~
cane Fear River stage at fa IN feet
m October 16, at a. Ill., ''''
,co,.;rued on Page Three; COL ~
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Russians Gaining Over Nazis
In Bitter Fight For Melitopol
KILL MANY GERMANS
Relief Army Captures Sew
eraI Hamlets In Advance
Toward City
BY JUDsoN O'QUINN

LONDON, Sunday Oct. 17-lP'-
Gen. Feodor Tolbukhin's south
Russian army wrenched. fiercely-
resisting Germans from block aft
err block of battle-shattered Melito-
pol, gateway to the Crimea, killing
1000 Nazis as one of the bitterest
struggles of the war today entered
its fifth day.
Fifty miles to the north of So
Wet relief army, smuggling its way
toward Melitopol, captured several
hamlets in an advance of three to
six miles.
There was new fighting at the
Soviet bridgehead southeast OF
Kremenchug on the middle deeper
where Soviet units were declared
to have cracked tn German lines
and captured several settlements
and over $50 prisoners.
Repulse Counter-Attacks
North and south of Kiev where
the Russians were fighting toward
the Ukrainian capital, over 1000
Germans were wiped out, said a
Moscow communique recorded by
the Soviet Monitor. In one week S
fighting there the Russians SAID
they beat back over 200 German
counter-attacks, wiped out over g.,
900 Germans in step-by-step ad-
vance, and detroyed 176 tanks, 1877
field guns and over 400 machine
guns.
GOMEZ was another objective OF
heavy fighting as the Russians
closed on the White Russian town
from the north and south. Eight
hundred Germans fell yesterday,
the bulletin said, and big guns duel
led throughout the day and night.
The Melitopol fighting, which RI
vailed Stalingrad for intensity and
bloodshed, saw the Germans hurl-
ing waves of men and machines
into the Maestrom despite their los
ses. Forty German tanks were de-
stroyed in the southwestern part c
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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Hurricane Is Moving
TOWARD New England

BOSTON, Oct. 16.-(P)-The Bos-
ton weather bureau announced to-
night that a hurrican. moving
rapidly northward," probably would
pass the southern New England
coast $50 to $50 miles offshore to-
morrow morning.
The report said the hurricane, To-
Gated approximately 800 miles west
northwest of Bermuda at 10 p. M,
was moving northward at an accel-
Grated rate of speed and should pos
sibly pass the southern New Eng
land coast some time tomorrow
morning.
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SHRINE LAUNCHING
PROGRAM PLANNED
Sudan Temple Members To
Take Part In S. S. Ka-
thay Ceremony

Launching ceremonies for the S.
S Kathay, scheduled for Tuesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock, will in
clude program conducted by the
Sudan Temple, Order of the Mys-
tic Shrine.
Colorful with its ceremony,
Tuesdays launching will be spon-
sored by Miss Julia May Raney,
daughter of L. A. Raney of Will
mington. Her attendants will be
Miss Jean Whitley of Windsor,
Va. and Miss Barbara Cuthrell
of Goldsboro.
The Shriners will conduct GER
emonial earlier, at p. M, in the
City armory Registration of its
members will begin at noon, fol
lowing which the Shriners will
hear Past Potentate T. L. Sim.
mons.
The christening program will
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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Continued on Page Three; Col. b.
Australians Make Gains
In Uria, Faria Valleys

to the ground" Eunson said.
Places where japanese might he
hiding were RACED, including a
mission building on tiny Sio is
land.
In the most advanced of the
newly won central Solomons,
Vella Lavella positions of the
Americans were raided by Japan
csc planes, the communique said.
In the sector northwest of Aus
tralia, Liberators bombed the
Japanese-held Aroe islands and
destroyed an intercepting fighter.
Japanese bombers made weak
raids on Finschhafen and Cape
Sudest, New Guinea.
In the South Pacific, to the
northwest of Vella Lavella in the
Solomons, light naval units down.
ed an enemy float plane over
Shoiseul.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sun
day, Oct. II -(R- Australian
troops moving toward the Jepel-
csc base of Madang, New Guinea,
have scored advances in the Uria
and Faria Valleys, General Mac
Arthur reported today in a COM
munique.
In support of the troops, Nit
chell Medium bombers strafed
from Sio to Saidor, dropping IS
tons of bombs.
Writing from an advanced New
Guinea post, Associated Press
War Correspondent Robert Eunson
said the Mitchells skinned the
coast above Finschhafen at no
higher than $50 feet to deal death
on Japanese retreating northward
from that Allied-won base.
"The strike hammered villages
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Lewis Calls On Striking
Miners TOReSume Work
Mine Strike Reduces
Alabama Steel Output

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct.16
Up Steel and iron produc-
ton in this center of heavy
industry dropped to its low
est rate since Pearl Harbor
tonight as John L. Lewis,
United Mine Workers chieftain,
urged some $4,000 idle Alaba-
ma coal miners to return to
work Immediately.
Seven blast furnaces and
five open hearths were order
ed banked in the Birmingham
district because of the fuel
shortage, thus reducing iron
production here to 60 per cent
of capacity and reducing steel
output to 70 per cent.
The walkout of miners,
which began Wednesday fol-
lowing announcement of the
release of the shafts from fed
eral manageship, left only
three mines operating in the
state today.
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CLIO Labor Dispute Halts
Work At Cramp Shipyard
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 16. II

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16. -(P)
- Thousands of workers at the
Cramp Shipbuilding company,
which operates one of the largest
shipyards on the east coast, stay
ed away from their jobs today in
a dispute with the management,
and the Company said production
was at a standstill.
The work stoppage developed
yesterday when 1000 employees
left for lunch and failed to return.
The company said virtually al''
workers Joined the stoppage to.
day.
Meanwhile Rep. Michael J. Brad
LEY, Philadelphia Democrat, dis
closed that he had suggested to
the Navy on Wednesday that Navy
intervention in the dispute might
be necessary.
! Philip H. Van Colder, secretary.
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SENDS KILOGRAMS
Believes WLB Will APP
prove Industry-Wide
Contract Soon

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16-CP-
John L. Lewis, asking striking
coal miners to go back to work,
told them today he thought the
War Labor Board would approve
next week an industry-wide con-
tract lengthening the working day
and boosting average earnings
about $1.75 day.
In kilograms sent to local un-
ions in Alabama and Indiana, the
United Mint Workers president
declared that this was his ICON
sidered personal judgment" as to
the boards probable action. He
urged the $4,000 miners idle IN
the two states to go back to work
on Monday.
WLB called on Lewis last night
to ask the striking coal miners
to return to work, and followed
up today by sending orders to
the miners to return to work
| forthwith"
The union had not authorized
the strikes which followed the
government return of the mines
to the owners. Some miners called
the walkouts protest against
working for private owners with
out a contract.
About $4,000 were out in Ala
bama and about $500 in Indiana.
In his telegram, Lewis said he
had definite assurance that the
board would rule on the pend
ing contract next week. This is
tentative agreement with the
Illinois Coal Operators Assocla-
ton which calls for revision OF the
historical method of figuring the
miners time on the basis of time
actually spent at the coal seam
1t would make the work day
for underground men 81 hours
including all time required II
travelling from the portal OF the
mine at the beginning of the shift
until the miners emerge at the
end of the shift The wage rate
now 81 for a 7-hour day, would
be straight time for the first Al
hours of the week and time ane
one-half thereafter.
1t would give an average O
$8.75 a day for 5-day week
WLB has approved concession:
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Air Raids Point Toward
New Plans For Invasion

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s-tR-
Inc aerial offensive against Ger
many appears now to be entering
a s5I: stage of preparation for an
,nnleo invasion of western Eur
to Attacks constantly increasing in
t 6a and frequency probably can n,
IL t5os expected from now on AGAINST
sans5., industries and arsenals es.
r9a,tSI J.. to Germany's develop.
, cana,,. Of reserves for the eriticp
tA' Amp which will start When
ssrc raS- armies thr,, r.'
THIS the English Channel. w.
som ,lS IS a conclusion drawn bv
ANNE Amas; o.. observers here from WI thy NY
dt av FL. n air force assault Th,, 1.s
d ry on the great ball bearin aA mrs.
Cer non center at schweinf prt
DSny' Widespread concerr
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ARGENTINE CHIEF
HITS TAMPERINC'
Employees Who Asked Re.
turn To Constitutional
Democracy Fired

RUENOS AIRES, Oct. 16.I-Ps-
President Pedro Ramirez today dis
charged all government employees
who signed manifesto published
Yesterday which called on the gov
eminent to return to constitutional
democracy and to fulfill its lnterna'
tional obligations in the hemisphere
solidarity program.
The order, which was directed to
all government employees whether
they occupied salaried or honorary
positions. followed a statement by
Ramirez in which he said the gov
eminent won't tolerate any tamper'
ing" The presidents order discharg'
ing the governmental employees said
the declarations in the manifesto
"were incompatible with the hon.
orable discharge Of public func'
tons"
CA Montevideo dispatch said that
Ramirez's cabinet, which was re-
shuffled this week after three min
listers regarded as pro-democratic
resigned, was regarded now as even
more reactionary than it's predeces-
sor and that it was plain the nation
alist government plans to stay on
indefinitely and to harbor no intru-
sion from outside its closed ranks.)
Commenting in yesterdays mani
festo, Ramirez said in part:
"a group of persons calling
themselves Representatives of a
thing decrepit and nonresident pub
lished yesterday in some newspa-
pers a manifesto demanding funda-
mental solutions to some of the ma
tional problems. x
''The revolution was conceived
and achieved by armed forces with
national moral support and will not
permit under any circumstances a
return to the conditions which ex-
listed under the former regime as
wanted by those who led the peo-
pie and the republic to the deplor-
able position we'll known to all.
"Meanwhile the government EN-.
phatically calls attention to the
fact that some of the signers of
the manifesto addressed to the Ar
gentines are foreigners Some OF
them were born in far-off lands;
/n.4.1 n.-. z. rn111v,on El
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WAR BOND SALES
TOTAL S6,756,S34
Latest Report Shows New
Hanover Surpassed
Quota By S7O3,S34

The War Finance committee an
nounced Saturday that the latest
report from the Federal Reserve
bank diScloses that New Hanover
county has scared above its Third
war Loan drive of $685. 1000 to &c.
75683475
This figure was as of the close
Of business October 10. and though
II shows that this county's quota
was surpassed by sales amounting
4. C SIO5,S34.75, officials expressed
me opinion that even more crafty
ing results will be Revealed wher
.lle llhal report is released. This is
expected next week as the last
.9uht is to be made through DC.
tober 16.
We" hanover reached IS per cen
u Us quota Of purchases Of Series
l. and 6 bonds, and officials de
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CityApproves
Set Of Rules.
|ror Employees.
r,tablishes Uniform Basis
FIR Handling All Per-
sonnet Matters
Effective AT ONCE
p,ovjde Leave, Service
Ratings And Discour-
age Political Activity

,.otin6 to bring the personnel
INV Of the City of Wilmington
? pun t,,e with that of other progress
I . municipalities, and in order
sl'' a.tablish uniform basis for
s IT, all personnel matters,
I ua rules and regulations affect
i t'' the city's BOB full-time en-
n-5rss have been approved by the
r..r council and will be put into
W. W. Immediately. A. c. Nichols
o ',r manager. announced Saturday.
The new regulations have al
-.,dv been distributed, and have
t t thoroughly explained to de-
eminent heads in conference, MIR.
Nichols said.
The rules apprise regular, full
4na citv employees that they may
. ~ two calendar weeks OF
,,.pal leave in each fiscal year;
n calendar day of sick leave for
,o month of service: Will re-
rive semi.annual service ratings;
,,i are directed to refrain from
enpsging in municipal political &C
tvites.
Flexible
n4soite the definiteness with
which the personnel policy has
been written. it allows for flexl-
b;Iitv. and takes into consideration
1hp DISPOSITION of the individual
danar+n1ent heads with reference
n their workers. It also invites
SUGGESTIONS for improvement, ana
1eTmits employees the right OF a
hearing in the event that discrlm-
nation or unfair treatment is al
leeed Mr.. Nichols pointed out.
A resume of the contents OF the
eiqht.page set Of rules:
LEGAL holidays for the city will
be New Years Day, Washington S
P,rthday. Memorial Day. 1ndepen-
donce Day. Labor Day, Thanks
giving Day, and Christmas Day.
The two weeks annual leave Will
be oranted full-time employees who
hova worked for the city one year
O. longer; time lost by an en-
rloye by reason Of leave of abb
sg~ce without pay, Or time other
wise not worked or paid for, shall
not be considered. vacation sche-
dules shall be developed by de-
par.ment heads subject to appro-
(Ca~tinued on Page 5; Column y
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RUSSIA PREPARING
FOR ALLIED MEET
Is Willing To Discuss Post
War Political And Eco
nomic Problems

MOSCOW, Oct. 16-LR)-Russla
is willing to discuss postwar po-
litical and economic problems as
we'll as military issues at the
forthcoming three-power confer
ence in Moscow, but holds that the
matter of "the second 'front.'
should come first, the official gov
eminent newspaper Izvestia indl-
Gated today.
In a front-page article reflect
ing assurance that an accord can
be reached on both political and
military questions, 1zvestia de-
clared the Allies are cooperating
successfully and expressed conf
dence that they would continue
to do so.
The article appeared amid grow
ing indications of a generally warm
atmosphere for the conference OF
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
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over the fact that the operation
cost go Flying Fortress bomoers
evoked from official sources
enough information to show tha'
the damage done was worth the
cost.
Consequently the Schwelnfur1
raid is down in the books as the
most important single accomplish
ment to date of American bomb
ing over Germany-an operation
required by major strategic con-
sideration and made possible by
American ability to replace the
losses which were suffered.
Ranking almost equally IN I'M
portance is the raid made on the
oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumanla
which also proved very expensive
in heavy bombers.
] Continued on Page Two; Col. =
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MANCUM IS NAMED
HEAD OF HOSPITAL
Succeeds Winston AS Su-
perintendent OF James
Walker Institution

Charles Mangum, of Newport
News, Va, and a member of the
staff of James Walker Memorial
hospital for the past several
months, has been appointed super
intendent of the institution, j. c..
Roe, chairman of the board of
managers, announced Saturday.
Mr.. Mangum succeeds M. E..
Winston, who has retired from hos
pital work due to ill health.
The new superintendent has had
extensive experience in the hos
pital field in North Carolina and
Virginia.
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treasurer of the Industrial Union OF
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
of America (CIO), said the stop
page twas provoked in the first
instance by the company dis
charge of union shop steward
without observing the regular pro-
cedure prescribed by agreement. =
A spokesman for Henry E. Ros-
sell, the company president, asked
to discuss the cause of the STOP
page. said the company could make
mo concise statement.
Rossell said in a formal state
ment that the management met
with union officials this afternoon
and assured them that "once the
men were brought back to work,
all grievances would go through the
proper channels and would be sub
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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ALLIES Capture TWO VITAL
ROAD FUNCTIONS, 10 TOWNS
IN ITALIAN FRONT ADVANCE
Germans Mount 81 Division Front
Against Guerrillas In Yugoslavia

the Germans still have fewer
than 20 divisions in all the Bal
kans, and about Is in Italy.
The main aim of these for
ces undoubtedly will be to clear
the guerrillas from strongholds
on the Dalmatian coast, where
an Allied invasion might be
landed, and rescue the Sava
river-railway line from Tito's
depredations.
Today's Yugoslav commune
que said large-scale operations
were successfully underway in
Slovenia and lower Syria, with
the heaviest battles being
fought for a railway bridge
over the Sava river at Sevnica,
40 miles east of Ljubljania. 1t
declared 1900 Nazis have been
killed or wounded SO far in
that sector.
on PaUe Two. Col
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the Zagreb-Belgrade railway
connecting with western Eu-
ropes rail network, bisects
Yugoslavia from east to west.
To combat Tito's effort to
carve out an invasion bridge
head for American British
armies, the Germans were re-
ported from Istanbul to have
put IL German divisions into
Yugoslavia, plus nine Bulgari-
an.
The Istanbul dispatch was
broadcast from Cairo and re-
corded by the Associated
Press. These figures, if true,
would mean that the Germans
were exerting nearly as great
an effort against the Yugoslavs
as against Lt.-Gen. Mark w.
Clark and Gen. Sir. Bernard l..
Montgomery in Italy. In Lon
don, however, it is estimated
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BY E. C. DANIEL

LONDON, Oct. 16.-tR-The
Germans have mounted a ma
jor front with perhaps FL d.
visions against guerrillas who
are threatening to over-run
Yugoslavia's main east-west
communications line, and have
placed two top generals in COM
mand Of the drive, it was re-
ported today.
Field Marshal Gen. Baron
Macmillan Won WEIGHS arriv-
ed in Belgrade to establish
headquarters under the overall
command of Field Marshal Err
win Rommel, and there was
evidence of determined drive
by the liberation army of Tito
(Josip Broz) to disrupt or seize
control of the Sava river valley
and its vital railway.
The valley, along which runs