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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
Another Star
From Brooklyn

can make a very nifty looking
outfit from a mans suit.
The clothes of married men
joining the forces will be quickly
taken over by their wives.
Married men not going to war
should keep their suits under
lock or key or they will come
home some night and find the
little lady has. taken one 10
make herself spring outfit.
DIOGRAPHER Of Connie Mack
- says:
"At 8 years OF age Connie was
chiefly interested In the game Of
four old cat"
That -four old cat is a new
one on me.
However, the kids on our
block played game called two
o. cat"
Statistician states that work.
ers in 25 industries now average
Salts a week.
In 1888 the workers in the
same industries averaged SIS a
week.
That makes an increase of 81
per cent in wages in four years.
Not bad.
Nowadays when some sur
geons sew patient up after an
operation they use a sewing
machine.
This is a recent surgical in
vention.
WRITES a Detroiter:
w you omitted two ditties
from your list of songs about
girls named Susan. They were
Sweet Sue and tho ono titled
The Fleets In which starts OF:
""The feet was moored when
black-eyed Susan came aboard
1t. Clark Gable recently ar
rived in Los Angeles on leave
and Immediately rushed out to
his ranch to see his two dogs.
Some reunion that was.
IT WAS the speed OF Amos
L Rusie. the great pitcher of
the yesteryear which inspired
John McGraw, then a player. to
remark: You can't hit 'em il
you can't see 'em. Not long
before his passing Rusie, discus
sing his career with sportscribe
Royal Brougham said: I'm a
game against the Cubs I wanted
to keep Bill Lange, speedy
runner, from getting a big lead
off first base. / made a quick
snap throw TO first and Lange
was out. But something snapped
in my arm. That was the last
ball I ever pitched"
A touching angle to Rusie's
passing was that it followed by
only two months the death OF
his wife to whom he had been
married for over so years. We
must therefore assume that a
contributing cause to the great
pitchers passing was a broken
heart.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12

Ii. Com. Walter WincheH
temporarily has discontinued
his coiumning while on duty
with the United States Naval
Reserve. Meanwhile. "On
Broadway is being written
by guest columnists. Todsys
guest IS Jack Lsit. veteran
New York reporter.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
PIT. MOscOni on Spot
Topioco Incident
Of II Comes to Light

With toddys dispatch, Bugs Baer begins the story
Of the Great TdpOcd Incident which took place. he says,
at Camp YGphonK during World War I.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
On Broadway
--Winchelling for Walter

Trade Mark Registered. copyright. 1913.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
BY Il. v. Duriing

Dis,tbut.d by King Feature, synd. Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
Argentina Lifts Ban
On Jewish Newspapers

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. l5.-P'-
A ban on Jewish-language news
papers in Argentina has been lift
ed. President Pedro Ramirez
press office announced tonight a
few hours after President Roose-
welt sharply criticized it.
Mr.. Roosevelt had declared IN
Washington that. the ban, AFFECT.
ing all Jewish newspapers printed
in Yiddish, was an act in charac-
ter with "the most repugnant fea-
lures of Nazi doctrine.
Announcement of the bans can
collation. was made shortly after
an official disclosure that Gen.
Ramirez had named an author OF
books, anti-Semitic in tone, and
two other men to fill cabinet posts
vacated by advocates OF a dlplo-
matte break with the Axis.
Government officials declined to
comment on Mr.. Roosevelts state
ment, saying they had not yet
been formally told of it. The state
ment had not been published here
up to this evening.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
ELECTRIC PUMPS
MAY AID PUBLIC
City Can Install Machinery
To Help in Multiplying
Salt Water

Several more electric pumps
may be installed, if necessary, in
locations where single hand
operated pump proves insufficient
to provide fresh water for the
number of people in that partl'
cular area, City Manager A. C.
Nichols said Friday afternoon.
Residents who find the water toe
salty may now draw fresh water
from the % city-owned emergency
wells, the wells operated by two
ice firms and the city's circulating
water tank, Mr.. Nichols announc
ed earlier in the day.
The saline content is said to be
increasing, as ocean tides push
salt further up the Cape Feal
river, beyond the point where the
water intake for the city pipeline
is made.
Mr.. Nichols reported that eleven
of the wells to be set in opera.
ton Immediately are newly dug
and that the others have beer
used in such emergencies in past
years.
The city's large truck water
carrier has been drafted for this
emergency duty, and will be sta.
toned in front of the Greenfield
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
Axis Blasted
From Houses
Of Melitopol
Russians Charge Seven
Miles Down Railway
At Zaporozhe
$500 GERMANS SLAIN
Part OF Battlefield Flood
ed By Dnieper Dam
Destruction

LONDON, Saturday, Oct.
16.-(P) - Russian soldiers
blasted the hard-fighting
Gerans from the wrecked
buildings of Melitopol yester-
day in hand-to-hand fighting
and charged seven miles down
the railway from Zaporozhe
in a major battle for a break
through at the northern door
to the Crimea, Moscow an
nounced early today.
More than 4,500 Germans
were killed in the area COM
prising about a 56-mile front
from south of Zaporozhe to
Melitopol in the southern
Ukraine, a bulletin said.
Part of the battlefield was
reported flooded by the Ger
mans who announced they
had destroyed the rebuilt
Dnieper dam, a few miles
from Zaporozhe, in an at
tempt to stall the attack.
The Russians, however, made
no mention of the dam.
BayOnets Used On Foe
Fighting for three days in the
center of Melitopol, Soviet troops
were forced to use their bayyonets
and hand grenades to pry the Ger
mans from fortified buildings in
GLIDING a factory and church.
More than 1000 Germans were
declared killed in the town as So
Wet gunners first silenced tie enc
my firing positions and then moved
methodically building by building,
and street by street, for the tough
cleanup.
The Moscow midnight communi-
que supplement, recorded by the
Soviet monitor, made no claim
that the town had been captured
Continued on Page Five; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
Walter Lippmann Says:

that, so far as we are concerned.
we have had to wage so mcuh OF
the war from bases which are not
in American territory. This is as
true of the war in the Pacific as
it is of the war against Germany.
Yet for some strange reason there
are not few of our people VINO
cannot seem to remember that
when we were driven out OF our
own bases at Wake, Guam and in
the Philippines we fell back upon
the British Commonwealth and
Empire and upon the French EN-
pire.
The bases, which the Senators
saw and are concerned about, are
situated in British n d French
territory across Africa, in India,
in Australia and New Zealand
and along the chain of islands
which connect Hawaii with Aus
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Outflanked at both ends and dan
gerously dented in the center, the
Nazi Volturno-Biferno front across
Italy evidently is crumbling. The
battle above Naples appears to be
degenerating into another Allied
race on both sides of the noun
famous spine of the peninsula to
keep contact with main Nazi forces
falling back northward under cover
of stubborn rear-guard protection,
road demolition and mine traps.
That conclusion is heightened by
the fact that word of the most i'm
portant new Allied gains in the
center came from Berlin. A Nazi
broadcast reported Allied capture
of Campooasso and Vinchiaturo
junction.
The significance of the Nazi dis
closure of new Allied successes be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
GREEK GUERILLA
UNITS HIT NAILS
1000 Germans Repulsed
North OF Athens; Bel
grade Attacked

LONDON, Oct. Is. Up Greek
guerrillas were reported today to
have repulsed force of 1000 Ger
mans in central Greece and ad-
vanced toward the railroad town
Of Karditsa, 100 miles north of
Athens in a new offensive adding
TO the Germans already grave
Balkan problem.
The Germans were said to be
pouring endorsements into Bel
grade in Yugoslavia to meet the
menace of swift and sudden at
tack from irregulars in isolated
backgrounds through 300 miles OF
territory from the Istrian PENN
sula south to the Greek Pelopon-
nesus. One Cairo dispatch said
the Quisling police chief of Bel
grade had been assassinated by
patriots under the very noses of
the Germans.
German press and radio reports
said Allied forces were poised for
thrusts into Yugoslavia an
Greece. They said the Allies had
established a number of jumping
off points on Aegean islands after
the Italian equalization and that
Greece was favorite target for
Anglo-American amphibious war
fare.
Greeks in London said German
troops were moving back from the
southern provinces in the Pelopon-
nesus, the largest Greek island
south of the mainland, taking hos
tages with them. The German
commander in Thebes, n r h Of
CONTINUED on Page Five: Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16

ira1QefS laQ IN eject smashed 5U
per cent of the enemy's war pro-
duction.
In Washington Pesident Roose-
Welt and General Henry H. Arnold,
chief of the United States Al +
Forces, expressed a similar view.
The War Department in = detailed
statement on the raid described it
as "heart-damaging blow to the
entire war production and machin-
cry maintenance program" a blow
that will have a definite effect
on the German war economy with
in reasonably short period Of
time"
Gen. Arnold said this effect in
some phases would be felt within
a month-and will result in short
ening the war" He observed that
ball bearings cannot now pour
from this ruin, and no moving
machinery will operate without
ball bearings
With the so bombers were lost
593 crew members, Gen. Arnold's
report said, but it was added that
Eat least half of these ARE be-
lieved to be alive as prisoners of
war on the basis of past expert
erces."
The loss of bombers represented
IS per cent of the raiding force
ii it equalled the record NUMBER
of 400 planes used against German
targets twice last week. An aver
age loss of five per cent is con-
sidered an economical" rate of
operation, which both the Raj and
the American Eighth Air Force
have been maintaining or better
ing.
eve had expected our losses to
be heavy, and they were" said
Brig. Gen. Fred L. Anderson. the
Eighth Air Force bomber w in g
commander, "but the d m a g e
done to the enemy was much
greater. The weather over the
target was excellent and the bombs
were concentrated upon vital
points in the area.
Continued on Page Five; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
AMERICANS BLAST
NEW GUINEA BASE
Fifth Air Force and PIT
Boats Smash Enemy
Installations

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sat-
,lrday. Oct. 16-lR-The Fifth Air
Force and swift PIT boats have
struck blows at Japane Sc air bases
and shipping on New Britain on
the opposite end Of New Britain
from Rabaul which only Tuesday
was pulverized by a 350-ton bomb
ing attack. :
The sector of New Britain near
est to General MacArthur's po-
tential invasion springboard on tho
Huon gulf of New Guinea felt the
weight of air assaults announc-
ed in today's communicate.
Cape Gloucester, the New Brit
ain air base nearest New Guinea,
was given a ALTON pounding by
heavy bombers. Its runways were
torn up and fires were started
among installations.
On the north side of the coast,
about half way up to Rabaul, me-
dunn and heavy bombers hit the
Cape Hoskins airdrome and de-
stroyed a coastal vessel. Direct
ly south across the island from
Cape Hoskins, heavy bombers
struck the Gasmata airdrome and
nearby anti-aircraft positions.
Mitchell bombers flew low along
the coast from Cape Gloucester
to Sag Sag, strewing bullets in
Japanese-occupied villages and
destroying or damaging five barg-
,es.
The PIT boats sank an enemy
coastal vessel, destroyed or dam
aged eight barges and strafed
shore installations around Rookie
island which is between the west
ern tip Of New Britain and New
Guinea's Huon peninsula.
On New Guinea, in the Ma
dang-Alexishafen area toward
which Australian troops now are
driving north and northwest in
the Ramu valley, Mitchell me-
dunn bombers attacked at low lev
ell. Their more than 30 tons OF
bombs wiped out supply dumps
and anti-aircraft positions and
spread many fires as well ASIDE
stroying two enemy fighters on
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
MINERS STRIKING
IN MANY SHAFTS
Copper, Transport Walk.
outs End; Coal Trou-
bic Is Started
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

work stoppage affecting copper
mining and transportation ended
yesterday (Friday) but labor diff
ficulties slowed production Of a
major shipbuilding concern and
walkouts by thousands of miners
aroused uneasiness in Washington.
With about 10000 coal miners
out in Alabama and 5000 out in
Indiana, the War Labor Board ask.
ed John L. Lewis, the United
Mine Workers president, to use his
influence to get them back to work.
"We call upon you as respon'
sible leader Of your union to urge
the employers to return to their
jobs at once so that full and con-
tinuing production may be resum'
ed" the board said in kilograms
to Lewis and district union Off
Gals in Alabama.
Earlier in the day, it was dis
closed that Secretary Of Interior
Ickes, as solid fuels administrator
had urged the War Labor Board
to speed disposition of the coal
wage dispute, saying he feared
runaway strikes which might
spread throughout the industry II
no contract was reached by Octo
Der 81.
The WLB is considering pro
posa1, which might form the basis
for general coal contract. tt
place Illinois miners on an 8 II
hour day based on the time they
enter and leave the mine. The ct
feet would be to add about 81
day to their pay. Heretofore, pay
ment has been based on time spen'
at the coal seam.
At the Kearny, N. j., yards o.
the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry
Continued on Page Two; Col. Il
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
Walter Lippmann Says:
Globe Trotting Senators Can Serve
Country By Understanding The Trip

tralasia. When General Macarthur
retreated from Bataan he retreated
into British territory in order to
rebuild his forces for the recon-
quest of the Philippines. If, after
Pearl Harbor, Britain had not also
been at war with Japan and had
not brought British territory into
the war, we should be fighting
Japan from the obviously made
o,1ate bases in Hawaii and Alaska:
General Chennault n d General
Stillwell and all Of China would
he ten thousand miles beyond our
roach if we could not get to them
from British India.
So when we talk about the future
If bases in the Pacific, let us MOI
for an instant forget that we woulo
not be able to fight japan 1roni
Continued on Page Two; COL .
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
Kirke Simpson Says
Maxi Volturno-Biferno Line Seems
Cracking Under Pressure OfAHies

fore an Allied announcement must
be to prepare German home front
o. lnion for another retreat in Italy.
A Berlin announcement of 'suc-
cessful withdrawal from the
whole Northumberland front is to
be expected. 1t could not stand
long in any case with the Campo
asso-Vinchiaturo communications
pivot broken.
It seems clear that the Volturno
delta has been virtually mopped
up by the Fifth Army all the way
to the hills that rim tito the north.
They would form a difficult OBJ
stacle to further Fifth Army ad-
vancement up the west coast flank
if it were not for the wedge driven
into the center of the enemy line
farther east of ,Vinchiaturo unc-
ton. Another 10-mile surge up the
Foggia-Rome road beyond Vinchi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
Clio Joins Roosevelt
In Opposing Plan Of
Federal Sales Taxes

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-{R
The CLIO, arguing that a fed
eral sales tax would be "the
equivalent of military de-
feat" teamed up with the Adj
ministration today in a deter
mined effort to turn back the
fast-developing drive in Con-
gress for enactment of such a
levy.
Philip Murray, CLIO presi-
dent, told the House Ways and
Means committee, in firm
tone, that if this tax becomes
law organized labor would be
compelled to demand proper
tionate increase in wages to
make up for this unjustified
wage cut"
Economic Sterilization Di.
rector Fred NJ. Vinson earlier
had predicted sales levy
would cause demands for wage
and price increases, and thus
open the way for wild infla-
ton.
The counter offensive de-
veloped fulfill as observers
began specializing that a per
cent tax had sufficient strength
to pass. Proponents are seek
Ing to substitute the levy for
the Administrations program
to raise 100000, 900, 900 addi-
tional through higher rates on
Individual and corporate in
comes and excuses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
FARM AGENT EORECASTy~
SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGES
DUE TO CEILING PrS<sS
Congress Planning 4.robe
Of u. S. Foreign Spending

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15-tRAA
congressional decision to investi-
gate the lend-lease program was
broadened almost Immediately to.
night to include check into the
spending of other federal agencies
abroad.
First, the Senate Appropriations
committee voted to undertake joint.
ly with the Thurman War Investi,
eating committee an inquiry into
Lend-Lease, vast agency for aid
ing the Allies.
Chairman Mcclellan ID. Tenn.
of the Appropriations committee,
said this investigation probably
would begin by November /.
He then met with subcommit.
tee to chart the course of the work
and Senator Nye (R.-N. d., who
reported on this meeting, said il
had been decided to include also
the foreign activities of the Office
OF inter-American affairs, the Re
construction Finance Corporation,
and the Export-Import bank.
1.-THE primary purpose will be
to give Congress and the people
an overall picture of how Ameri.
can dollars are being spent abroad
by all agencies" Nye said. 1--WE
don't know enough about what this
county is doing abroad and what
ii may have promised to do"
AS for the original Lend-Lease
investigation plan, committeeman
had said it probably would cover
complaints-such as were heard
following the recent war front tour
of five senators-that all was not
well in the use of American sup
plies shipped to Britain and others.
Nye predicted the inquiries
would be more or less private
hearings so as not to "stir UP
International strife"
Elsewhere in the capital today:
Government circles evidenced
fear Of another general coal strike,
following mine walkouts in Ala
bama and Indiana. The War La
Dor Board called on John L. Lewis,
the United Mine Workers chief.
to head it off.
The rift between the United
States and Argentina widened still
farther, with President Roosevelt
telling g news conference that an
Argentine ban on Jewish newspa-
pers smacked of repugnant Nazi
doctrines.
Vigorous opposition was announc-
ed by the CLIO to any federal sales
tax. CLIO President Philip Murray
said such a tax would mean de-
nand for higher wages to offset it.
An 11-man Internationalist bloc
in the Senate challenged the For
eign Relations committee to
strengthen a proposed declaration
on postwar policy, or face a con-
test on the floor of the Senate.
President Roosevelt disclosed
(Cnn4inued nm paUe Five. Col ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
Local Foundrymen
Honored For Work
In Aiding Nation

Employees Of the Broadfoot
Iron Works were honored Fri
day afternoon at celebration
of the completion of the Tooth
ship propeller shaft produced
by the company.
William G. Br0adfoot presi-
dent of the organization said
the affair was arranged in
recognition Of the efficiency
and meritorius effort the work.
ers had made. 1t has enabled
his company, he said, to come
in the last two years from
scratch to its present weekly
capacity of an average Of 3
sets of Liberty ship shafts.
Robert E. Tapp, master OF
ceremonies, introduced 1t.
Col. J. T. Knight, U. S. Engi-
neers, Wilmington district who
commended the men for their
contribution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
By WALTER LIpPMANN

ha NO" that the travelling Senators
o naae seen the great American
O oo bases which have been
U constructed during the war, they
t #oulo serve the country well if
M a,ey made it their next business
Seen 1''oefstand what they h ave
fvsn. A serious discussion of the
dn 'afe OF these bases is long over
tugI ana al it has been serious
n1or rr o. British and American d.
h has bss that this critical problem
For De tSn SO 50 long neglected.
eono l the bases raise in their most
rea iIf ;s and practical form the
If "a tba issues of our foreign no1;cv
wjs ,dese Issues are not dealt t with
to ' h. and and soon they will continue mn,,s
ranuv sslsated foolishly and ign 10.
'Ds great TACT about this war is
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16

aturo would bring Allied force sto
the valley cross roads leading
westward where a break-through
could put them in the rear of the
Nazi coastal flank.
The battle of the Volturno ap-
parently was fought by the Ger
mans primarily as a delaying ac-
ton and the hill positions north
OF the Volturno delta, which COM
mand all roads and railroads lead
ing from Naples to Rome, likely
will be similarly defended. A
strong rearguard stand there
seems called for to permit the
Nazi left wing, facing the Eighth
Army, make good its retirement
from the Biferno.
It seems significant that Gen.
eral Montgomery veterans on the
Continued on Page Five; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-16
FIERCE FIGHTING
Military Spokesman Says
Enemy Position Be-
coming Critical
TROOPS CROSS STREAM
Gains East OF Capua Aver.
age From Two 10
Five Miles
ALLIED HEADQUAR-

ALLIE D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Oct. 15.-(R
Keeling from sledgehammer
frontal assaults by the Amer
lean Fifth Army and their
western flank menaced by a
powerful British landing
force, Nazi defenders of the
Volturno river line fell back
toward Rome today in some
of the fiercest fighting yet
seen in the Mediterranean
war.
"The enemy's position
hourly is becoming more des-
perate and he will obviously
be forced to pull out from all
the low area near the river"
a military spokesman declar-
ed on the basis of news direct
from the three-day-old battle.
Streams of Allied troops,
tanks, artillery and anti-tark
guns poured across the Vo'-
turno on scores of makeshift
bridges as assault teams cor
solidated their hold on high
ground overlooking the vital
Capua bridgehead. Gains east
iof Capua averaged two to five
miles, an Allied announce
ment said.
Germans Resist Bitterly
The Germans yielded their posi-
tons only after bitter resistance,
and time after time launched des-
perate tank-led counter-attacks in
futile efforts to dislodge the Amer.
leans and British at key points.
Allied tanks and tank destroyers
joined the infantry in the furious
drive across the still-flooded flat
lands north of the Volturno and
into the heights beyond, which
rise to 1000 feet.
CA German communicate ac-
knoWledged the Allies had 'su.
perior infantry and tank forces on
both sides of Capua." A Ber-
lin broadcast placed the attacking
force at four infantry and one
tank divisions
Terrific fighting also was report
ed raging along the coast near the
mouth of the Volturno, where Brit
ish infantry and tanks poure
ashore early Wednesday from new,
American-type, open-mouthed land
ing vessels and dug in along a
canal under the protective fire of
these destroyers.
This amphibious force was at
tempting to roll up the enemy's
coastal anchor four miles north of
the Volturno, where the Nazis had
concentrated artillery on the DOM
mating heights in apparent antici.
patton of such a maneuver.
1.-THE enemy has learned to be
uneasy about his flanks exposed
to the sea- an Allied spokesman
asserted. because with these new
American landing craft it's so easy
to put troops ashore swiftly"
(The Algiers French radio re.
ported that the Germans had or
dered the evacuation of Italy's en-
tire western coast north of Ostia
as precaution against further AL
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