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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-02
lo-Week Course

Each class, numbering 50 men
and women, Is given an inten-
sive 10-week course. with 40
hours per week devoted to
classes alone.
Into this comparatively short
space of time is crowded a sur
prising amount of mathematics,
blueprint reading and sketching,
inspection training. manufactur-
ing processes and industrial ma
terials.
Very few Of the girls have had
any college education at all tthe
qualifications require only a
high school diplomat. They're
ex-office workers, beauticianS,
salesgirls, schoolmarIns, for the
most part &. from all walks OF
life.
No Drop-outs
Yet. the machinery and math
doesn't stump them, az was
proved by the fact that the first
group graduated, without sin
gle failure or drop-out. Just last
week.
On the grade cards. which
also record the personal traits
of the employe, almost every
one had an attitude rating OF
industrious. 'Twould seem the
war worker is more serious
about education than the aver
age collegian-
The attraction Of the inspec-
ton training course lies in the
fact that they earn while they
learn not only salary but
maintenance. And after the 10
weeks are over. the students are
sent back 10 their home terri
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
SALT IS NOTED
IN CITY WATER
Saline Content In Supply
Again On Rise; Rain
May End Threat

The salt content of the city
water is on the rise again, city
officials revealed Tuesday and ex-
pressed the hope that rain Monday
and Tuesday had checked, tenn
porarily at least, the threat OF
a period of salty water such as
was experienced here in the fall
of 1871.
Rainfall here Monday and Tues
day totalled 81 inches, according
to the U. S. Weather bureau. How
ever, rains are needed along the
entire watershed Of the Cape Fear
river system to be effective.
M'Kean Mafeitt, superintendent
of the city water and sewer de-
partment, said Tuesday that the
salt content of the water was now
$500 parts per million.
Approximately 1000 parts per
million are necessary before the
salt becomes perceptible, he said.
A number of factors are respon-
sible for the periodic invasion of
the municipal water supply by
salt but, generally. a salt season
follows a summer of little rain
fall climaxed by the equinoctial
high tides in the Cape Fear river
from which the city water is
drawn
Against the threat Of a salt sea-
son, during which water becomes
und rinkable and thousands of dol
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Army Chief Tells Legion
MISUNDERSTANDING

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 21.-CP)-
Gen. George C.. Marshall told the
25th convention of the American
Legion today that great offensives
were ''just about to begin against
the enemy in Europe and Asia, and
his commander-in-chief, President
Roosevelt, urged increased effort
in civilian defense and other phas-
es of the national program.
Both cautioned that the war was
not yet won, President Roosevelt
reiterating that the end "is not in
sight until unconditional surrender
has become a reality"
1t. Gen. Omar Bradley, recent
ly returned from Sicily, in re-
view of combat experiences de-
clared that the Germans encoun-
tered by American troops are
cunning, INSCRIPTIONS, and some
body to be exterminated." Gen.
Bradley and 1t. Gen. Simon D.
Buckner, who has been directing
American operations in Alaska, ac-
companied Gen. Marshal to the
convention.
Speaking after receiving the Lee
gion's distinguished service med
al. General Marshall said: l.
CHOW at last we are ready to
carry the war to the enemy. all
overseas, thank God, with a pow
er and force that we hope will
bring this conflict to an early con-
clusion.
sBut please remember that this
phase is just about to begin, a
point which seems not to be under
stood by our people here at home
possibly because they are far re-
moved from the agonies of wal
except for those whose sons or
husbands have been engaged in
the fighting"
Successes in the Mediterranean
Marshall said, will free huge ma
val forces for the war against ia
pan.
eve are similarly engaged in
planning other forces, particularly
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
RAF LASHES OUT
FROM new FIELD
Coo Island In Dodecanese
Furnishes Allies With
Vital Weapon

LONDON, Sept. 81. Up RAJ
fighter planes were striking out
today from newly conquered Coo
in the Dodecanese, one OF three
islands off Greece upon which Al
lied forces were officially declared
to have landed.
Thus was begun the development
of the extreme right wing of the
immense Allied invasion line now
being drawn up from the Aegean
sea in the southeast to the Ligurian
sea facing Genoa and the French
Riviera on the west.
In front of this line, curving 500
miles or more, stood whole series
of doors to southern Europe, open
ing one after the other all the
way from the B.; 1kans across to
lower France.
The occupation of Coo airfield
by British airmen and the fact
that they already are operating
from there, directly menacing such
German positions as Crete, was
disclosed in an Allied conmunique
from the Cairo command, which
told also of air attacks spread
from Crete to Venice. A little
later Allied landings ON the islands
of Samos and Lero also were Of
ficially confirmed.
The occupation of the airfield at
Coo meant that a relatively small
but highly dangerous part OF the
four-to-one Allied air superiority
of which Premier Churchill spoke
in Commons today had been car
ried to a point where it could be
instantly effective against the
southeastern corne- OF Hitler's sto.
len continent.
The position of the Germans on
Crete was compared here with that
of the Nazis who occupied Sar.
DINA, and there was speculation
that the Germans might soon find
Crete untenable. This estimate,
however, looked a little too Opt.
mistic.
Sardinia was doomed when the
Italian fleet surrendered and Al
lied ships swept up the whole Of
the Tyrrhenian sea. Crete, on the
other hand, is close enough to
Greece to get considerable sup
plies by air if the Nazis wanted
to try it that way.
The Cairo coinm1nique disclos-
ed that the Italian personnel on
Coo island was cooperating with
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22

The drafting of 18-year-olds and
the filling of wartime jobs by
students disseminating their edu-
cation are clearly shown by the
current enrolment at New Han
over High school, Principal T. T..
Hamilton declared Tuesday.
The total enrolment at the To-
cal institution has declined to
1873 students registered in the
past year. The decrease has &C.
CURED despite the large freshman
class of 684 pupils, and the ac-
quiring of 200 new students who
nave come here from outside the
county.
AS an example of the inroads
made by draft and WARRIORS, Mr..
Hamilton pointed to the decrease
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
DESNA line FALLS
Latest Offensive May Hurl
Germans Back To In
vasion Boundary
NEARING VITAL CITIES
NeIitopoI Shelled And Co.'S
sack Patrols Pierce
Enemy Positions

LONDON, Sept. 21.-{R-
rbp great Russian offensive,
gaining in force and speed,
fodav battered down the Des-
ma river line - last Nazi bar
rier before the Dnieper -
and the Red Army poured to-
ward smolensk and Kiev in an
attempt to clinch a great dou-
he victory which would hurl
the Germans back to their in
vasion boundaries.
Soviet spearheads were re-
ported within IS miles of
Smolensk and only Is miles
from Kiev. They were she'll
ing Melitopol on the Crimean
rlway from three miles
away and they were so close
10 the middle Dnieper that
Cossack patrols were breaking
through at night to water
their horses in the river.
Cneringov Is Captured
Marshal Joseph Stain proclaim
ed the capture of Chernigov, only
80 miles from the Dnieper, after
a fierce three-day battle, and in
an order of the day declared the
German Desna defenses had been
cracked "along the whole length
Of the river, and the plan of the
Germans to stem the advance of
our troops on the line Of the river
Desna must be considered to have
failed"
In the days fighting the Rus
SLAMS claimed the capture Of LII
towns and villages, some Of them
large.
These were the latest Russian
gains, averaging an advance Of 10
miles day, along the 600-mile
front as the Nazis' east wall top
pied:
Northern flank: captured Yugov-
ka. six miles northeast of Rns1av1
III a six mile advance through
heavily-fortified woodland, bring
ing Soviet guns within close range
Of the observation-disclosures railway.
Upper Dnieper: smashed for
ward u miles from Novgorod-Se-
yersky in race toward the from
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
CHURCHILL PLEDGES WORLD
THAT NEW INVASION NEAR:
ALLIES MOP UP SARDINIA
Germans Turing Naples
Into Citadel OF Horror

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY, Sept. FL.
lap - The Germans have turned Naples into city
of horror killing thousands of Italian civilians and loot
ing, burning and destroying, it reported today by
persons who filtered through the battle lines into AL
ed-held territory.
Civilians said the town already was without water
or any means of lighting the houses little food
brought down from orchards and farms in the noun
tans but the organization for distributing it has brok
en- down completely under the harsh German restric-
tions regarding the curfew.
It means death to go out of houses at night looking
for food and water the Italians said. German soldiers
patrolng the streets don't challenge ask for denti-
fication. They shoot first.
Asked an estimate of how many Italians had been
killed that way in the last two weeks, the people who
arrived in this area said thousands They added that
there are medical supplies and epidemlcs OF both
typhoid and typhus raging.
Since the armistice the Germans have turned on
them like enemies they said, and are beating them and
treating them than in any occupied country In
Europe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
SENATE P0STP0NES
|DEFERMENT ACTION
Delay Will Place Vote Two
Days Before VINO
October Deadline

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21- F -
The Senate today postponed con-
sideration of the Wheeler father
draft deferment bill until next
Tuesday - only two days before
the October l deadline set by the
War Manpower Commission for
the general induction Of men with
children.
Should the bill clear formidable
Administration opposition in the
Senate, it would face further legis.
lative delays in the House which
might draw out final action long
into next month.
Despite the Army and Navy high
commands opposition to the legis-
lation, Senator Wheeler D-Mont) ,
the author, insisted on show
down vote. He agreed, however,
to Majority Leader Barkley's re-
quest to let the debate 60 over
until next week so members can
study testimony already taken
from high Army and Navy Off
Gals, as well as that to be re-
ceived from Bernard M. Baruch,
presidential advisor, tomorrow at
ternoon.
Wheeler announced he would
question Baruch closely on report.
ed boarding of labor by plane
plants and ship construction yards
Other Washington developments
topped by the Houses overwhelm-
ing approval of the Fulbright re-
solution favoring United States
postwar collaboration with other
nations to maintain peace includ-
ed:
The United States and Britain
jointly warned neutrals against
purchasing German-held assets in
Italy.
The War Department called 20(
editors, industrial and labor lead
ers to a conference next week te
hear an outline of Allied strategy
and production needs. The purpose
it was explained, is to counterac1
home front complacency.
A group of members of the House
Naval committee came out in ia
vor of abolishing the law permit
ting renegotiation of war contracts
to recapture Excessive" profits.
Such profits, the commended, should
be reached through super-tax.
Before vote is had on the
Wheeler bill, there will be test
On a proposal for major change
in it.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) submit
ted an amendment today which
would call for the induction Of
fathers under 80 before any over
that age are taken. Wheeler's orr
ginal measure simply would defer
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers for the
rest of 1913.
Taft said lie did not believe that
induction of the younger fathers
would disrupt the domestic econo'
| roI
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
KAlAPIT SEIZED
BY AUSTRALIANS
Troops Dropped By Amer
lean Transports; Jap
Thrusts Repulsed

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Wed
nesday Sept. 22.-lRE Austral-
;ans landed by big American
transport planes have seized kala-
pit go miles above newly-cap-
tured Lac, New Guinea, and only
70 miles south of the enemy base
at Madang, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced today.
The transports swept down on
a grassy field last Saturday night
and Sunday, disgorging Austral'
ians who repulsed enemy counter
attacks and drove the japanese
out of the immediate area, Such
daring move outflanks the enc
my's base at Finschhafen on the
Huon peninsula.
Kaiapit is inland on the Huor
peninsula northwest of Finsch'
llafen.
"Our ground forces, transported
by air, seized and occupied Kaia
pit approximately go miles above
Lac, repulsing several counter
attacks and forcing the enemy te
retire." today's communicate said
This swift ground action, emu
lating in part the airborne ano
seaborn pincers which envelopec
Lac within IL days, was coupled
with reports of air action on g
more extensive scale than it has
been in many months both in the
South and Southwest Pacific.
A m eri an heavy bombers
wreaked havoc on supply lines
just above the newly won GROUND
base of Kaiapit and the japanese
struck counter-blows both on New
Guinea andn in the Solomons
heavy in the Solomons.
Ninety-seven tons of bombs were
dropped on enemy bases at We
wax and Madang, New Guinea
by American heavy bo1nbers and
the description of the attacking
units included the now familiar
with fighter escort"
The attackers dropped 43 tons
of bombs on two airdromes around
Wewak, where more than 400 enc
my planes have been destroyed
since mid-August. One plane was
destroyed on the ground, an un.
determined number of others were
set on fire and two out of seven
interceptors were shot down.
In the Madang sector, fighter
escorted heavy and medium bomb
(COntinued nm Pare Five: Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22

been named director of the bond
sales program in the county and
city schools. He has already for
warded information and materials
to teachers within the system, and
the total sales will soon begin roll
ing in daily.
youths of our city have re-
sponsibility in this campaign as
well as their parents. Many of our
high school boys and girls, for in
stance, are earning good money in
local stores and industries. AS a
far sighted investment for their
own futures, they should see the
wisdom in purchasing bonds" a
committee spokesman declared.
Block leaders, at the urging OF
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noted in the four-year career OF
the senior class. In 1940-41, that
group in its freshman year num-
bered 598 pupils; at the begin
ming of the present term, the num-
Der had dwindled to 286, a loss
of 312 students.
New Hanover High school is
continuing its policy Of offering
training for wartime needs, Mr.,
Hamilton said. He cited the in.
dustrial courses available-wood
work, metalwork, electricity, in.
dustrial arts, and mechanical.
drawing.
For young men and women who
will enter the business field here
are courses in junior business
training, typing, shorthand, book
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Haste Is The Keynote
In City Bond Campaign

w.. The city has got to hustle if it
.1pects to report on time with that
suo'a of S6,053, OOO,' observed one
n ra'.oer of the War Finance COM
N,t''ee Tuesday, as he watched
t ale Slow climb of the mercury on
"T poStoffice bond thermometer.
refhaps it was the Indictment
"eatAer, the bond authorities
rroo:!Illnented, but sales were not
sung briskly enough Tuesday to
TTuIaraftee attainment of the goal.
T. +Nefe are only nine more days
achleve the final S2,5O0,000.
"holehearted entrance of the
scnools into the campaign was an
,san;e5ouraging factor, the officials
W. L. r. Blakeslee, principal of
"aSnlnstoa Catlett school. has
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22

sive action on all fronts under
the Quebec strategic directives.
1t will recognize, also, that
in successive inter-Allied milf
tary conferences, from WASH
ington to Casa Blanca to WASH
ington to Quebec, the Ameri-
can chief of staff was the out
standing contributor to the FASH
iOning of the strategic plans
for victory.
RumOrs that Marshall is to
be eased out of his present
chief of staff assignment due
to the pressure of interests OPP
posed to him. presumably Brit
ish, are in direct conflict with
the facts. The American chief
of staff has won the admira-
ton and respect of all the Brit
ish officials with whom he has
come in contact. including
Prime Minister Churchill.
The unprecedented scope of
his contemplated ultimate COM
mand. giving General Marshall
presumptive authority even over
H. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
RED STEAMROLLER
DRIVING TOWARD
&OLEMSK AND KEW
Last Day Of Ticket
Sales Arrives For
AER Relief Movie

Wednesday is the last day for
Wilmingtonians to make good
Mayor Bruce b. Cameron's
promise to Camp Davis Off
Gals that This is the Army."
the Army Emergency Relief
fund benefit motion picture
which will be shown here at
= pm. Wednesday night, would
be q Sell0ut.
A number of tickets are still
available and will be on sale
throughout the day in the post
office lobby and at the ticket
office of the Bailey theatre
prior to the show.
One hundred per cent of the
proceeds from the show will go
to the relief fund.
The technicolor picture is
the movie version of Irving
Berlin's popular play.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22

by hlhhE II. SlMISUN
Copyright 1913 by the Associated
PresS)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21-
The blunt fact about General
George C. Marshall, is that he
is tentatively slated to become
virtual commander-in-chief of
all Anglo-American forces in
the field, ground, eea and air.
and put into execution the pat
tern of victory east and west
shaped at the .ebec confer
ence.
just when an announcement
to that effect will be forthcom-
ing from London or Washing
ton is uncertain. This writer
can say, however, that the
nomination of the American
Army chief of staff for the
task was perhaps the major
decision reached at Quebec.
If it meets the final approval of
the London war cabinet as ex-
pected, it will put General Mar
shall at the head of a super
global field command with
authority to coordinate agrees
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
MASS DRIVE SEEN
Prime Minister Tells Com
mons That Second
Front Will Open
MAY TALK TO STAIN
TRIP artite Conference Ex-
pected To Take Place
During Year
MAY TALK TO STAIN

LONDON, Sept. 21.-(P
Winston Churchill pledged
parliament and the world to-
day that a second front in
France and the low countries
which already exists po-
tentially" - will be thrown
open with a mass Allied at
tack Eat what we and our
American allies judge to be
the right time"
In his two hours and seven
minutes war report to Com
mons the doughty prime min
lister ranged the whole global
scene of the war, warmly de-
Tended the Allies Italian
campaign, which he called a
third 'front.' and forecast a
Stain Roosevelt Churchi'
conference before the end of
the year.
During the long speech, one
of his most studied and most
comprehensive if not one IF
his greatest rhetorically.
Churchill sketched enormous
Allied progress in air and sea
warfare, disclosed American
troops had landed in Sardiria
and asserted Mussolini never
would have escaped if Italian
caribinieri at Gran Sasso bod
obeyed the orders they had to
shoot him if he attempted a
getaway.
Approval Is Shouted
Cries of 'hear, hear" swel]ed
into an approving roar throu'h
the chamber as Churchill declar-
ed: "The bloodiest portion-make
no mistake about that-the bloodi-
est portion of this war for Great
Britain and the United States lies
ahead of us. Neither this house
nor his maiesty's government will
shrink from that ordeal"
Even now, the prime minister
declared with feeling, Hitler's
"main preoccupc tom is with the
mere menace Of an inevitable and
decisive thrust at Germanys heart
from Great Britain.
During his speech, which he IN
terrupted for a luncheon period,
Churchill declared:
l. The Raj has increased three
fold in the last IL months the
weight of bombs discharged on
Germany. 'havoc wrought is i'm
describable';; if the RATS growth
continues. the Allies should "be
in a position when actual methodi-
cal destruction of every building
of the enemy would become pos
sible.'
2. Although U-boats at present
are attacking one convoy, no AL
lied merchant vessel was sunk in
the North Atlantic in the f our
months ending September 10; in
the first two weeks of September
no Allied hips were sunk by enc
my action anywhere in the world.
8. "At an early date" there will
be tri-partite conference of the
United States, Great Britain and
Russia, at which no question will
be barred. Any differences may
be referred to a Stalin-Roosevelt-
Churchill conference w h i C h he
confidently hoped would occur
| before the end of 1943.
4. The Allies are ready to throw
large armies into Italy, there to
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Draft Of Is Year Old Youths Is Felt
Bv HIGH School In 1913 Enrolment

keeping, commercial arithmetic,
and dictation and transcribing.
AS has been proven, the high
school is prepared to meet the
need for training in higher mathe.
mates and sciences so necessary
in the armed forces. There are
advanced and elementary courses
in algebra, plane geometry, solid
geometry, trigonometry, a well
rounded field.
Science at the High school pre-
sents opportunities to the student
interested in biology, chemistry,
physics, aeronauticS.
Strong emphasis on English re-
mains a hard and fast rule. Sup
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-22
RESTRICTION SET
ON CITY WORKERS
Members OF Police And
Fire Units Cannot Do
Spare Time Labor

Members Of the fire and police
aepartments are prohibited from
taxing spare time jobs by a reso-
luton adopted by the council at a
recent special session, city Off
Gals said Tuesday.
Inc resolution states that mem
oefs Of the two departments shall
not work for any employer other
NAN the City of Wilmington.
1t Is the latest move by the
city in a series of steps to control
NE problem of spare-time employ
ment. Several months ago, t h e
council put into effect pl n
whereby a member of either de-
paftment, who decided to take a
paf'-tlme job, had to apply to the
Wy manager for approval.
part-time employment in the po-
Ace department has included work
~ oank guards on Fridays, pay
uay Tor the thousands of employees