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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-08
|F0RTRESSES HIT
DUREN FACTORIES
Americans Raid Germany
Without Loss For
First Time

LONDON, Nov. 7.-tR)-Ameri-
can Flying Fortresses today raid
ed Germany for the third time in
five days, bombing Duden, site of
important airplane parts and light
metals plants, and other targets
with practically no opposition and
without losing a single bomber.
It was the Americans second
blow in two weeks at Duren. %
miles southwest of Cologne, and
$50 miles southwest of Muenster,
where American heavies hit on
Friday.
Powerful l'tt nc esbolt ;i2 ,tc's
flew tight protection for the bonn
bers all the way to the target and
back, about 700 miles, and filters
who are veterans of Is raids said
they didn't see single German
plane and that anti-aircraft was
intermittent and light.
1t was the first time that Am
erican heavy bombers ever had
raided Germany without loss.
Enemy planes, meanwhile, gave
London its sixth consecutive night
alert tonight, bombing several out
lying areas and apparently caus'
ing casualties at one place in a
brief attack. Defensive gunfire
WAS fairly heavy.
The American operation rounded
out a week in which, wespite two
record American raids and one
big Raj attack on Germany, the
Allies lost fewer pla, es than the
Nazis.
Raj and U. S. AAF losses over
Europe, the Mediterranean thea
ter and the Middle East were
about go planes. At least 1873 Ger
man planes were shot down.
Over Europe the Raj lost 81
and the Eighth Air Force q
planes while the Germans lost a
least 81, of which "a were sho'
down by Americans.
The Fortress operations were
part of an exceptionally active day
with formations of planes dronin&
back and forth across the channe
internationally from morning unit
late afternoon.
The only American casualty il
the days operation was a fighter
lost on supporting sweep into
northern France.
The Raj hcnnted three Nazi Al,
bases in France. A contingent o
Bostons hit Bernay and Typhoon!
attacked Beaumont lie Roger anc
Tricqueville- the latter struck b.
American Maurauders on Wed
nesday.
Raj Mosquitoes last night bomb
Continued on Page Two: Col, 81
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NEW FIGHT SEEN
OVER FSA FUNDS
Georgia Lawmaker De-
mands Appropriations
For Farm Agency

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. - up -
A demand by Senator Russell Cd
Gal that the Senate include funds
for the Farm Security Administra-
ton in the S214,954, 1874 deficiency
appropriations bill passed by the
House Friday raised prospects to-
day of another spirited contest IN
Congress.
The House appropriations COM
nittee fatty rejected an FSA plea
tn S6,5OO,OOO in administrative
1ds and s37, 100000 in borrowing
z1ority and the item was never
united on the House floor.
The continuation of the Farm
lcurity Administrator is vital
the war food program, Rus
I'll told reporters. 81 hope the
Anate appropriations committee
and the Senate will see that ade-
Quate provision is made"
Senator Mcclellan D-Tenn)
chairman of the subcommittee
which will consider the bill dis
closed that he had instructed the
committees enlarged staff of ex-
Ierts to look very carefully" into
The need for s5,o00.000 appropri'
alton the House voted for the Of
fee Of War Information.
The House rejected, 146 to 139,
an amendment by Representative
Taber (R-NY) to cut the S., 0OO,'
OOO allotment for the activities Of
the overseas branch to $1,000, OOO
Administration spokesman argu
ed the money was a military ne
cesslty to increase psychological
Continued on Page Two; Col.
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Bitter Fighting RACES
Along Central Yangtze
As Sintienpu Captured

CHUNGKING, Nov. 7.-(R-
Bitter battles ragged along the
central Yangtze river front to-
day where the Japanese nave
amassed an army estimated at
10000 men to forestall any Al
lied offensive, the Chinese hlgn
command announced.
The Chinese reported one VIC
tory, the recapture Of Sintien-
pu, about so miles southeast OF
the Japanese base at Shasi, but
acknowledged that Japanese
columns driving on the Kang-
tie port of Sungtze were con-
tinuing their advance.
Fighting also was reported to
be progressing around Manu-
sien, Japanese-held town 70
miles south of Shasi, but the
general situation there was re-
ported unchanged.
A belated announcement from
the headquarters Of Lt.-Gen.
Joseph w. Stilwell said Ameri-
can airmen had gone to the
defense of the central Yangtze
Chinese forces Tuesday, blast
ing at Japanese warehouses and
supply dumps at Shasi and
strafing enemy shipping on the
Yangtze south of Shasi.
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'Thus," as Mr.. Raymond Clap
per put it this week, "the Repuo-
leans have recovered grass-roots
control of the country, except IN
the South, which is special po'
litical realm .. The Republicans
now have control in every popH-
Ious state outside of the South,
except in Indiana"
The superficial thing to say
about this change of party control
lis that the people are dissatisfied
and are voting for change. But
the longer and more significant
view is, I believe, that the normal
| life of an American party in pow
er is from twelve to twenty years
and that it would be astonishing
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MARICNY'S MATE
TO AID DEFENSE
Pretty Nancy Will Take
Stand In Cakes MUIR
der Trial

NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. Z. -
Up Red-haired Nancy Cakes de
Marigny, who never has wavered
in her loyalty to the husband who
is accused of killing her father,
will speak out publicly in his de-
tense this week as one Of the final
witnesses at his trial for murder.
The 19-year-old girl was in the
United States last July when Sir
Harry Cakes was struck on the
head and set afire in a bedroom OF
his seaside estate, Westbourne,
but Alfred de Marigny's attorneys
nevertheless have assigned her a
key role in their strategy for saw
ing him from the gallows.
They will call her to the stand
in an effort to offset the testimony
Of her mother, Lady Eunice Cakes,
who told last week Of the troubles
which beset one of the world S
Wealthiest families after Nancy
Was married to the dashing. twire
divorced defendant.
For three weeks of the sensa
tional trial, Nancy has been forced
to stay at home and get second
hand reports of the drama being
enacted in the Bahamas Supreme
Court room AS future witness
she was barred from the chamber
She paid a visit to her HUSBAND
in prison, however, to give hin
encoura cement just before he tool
the stand Thursday to deny tina
he is guilty and to insist that NJ
was five miles away, at home anf
in bed, at the time his father"ln
law was attacked.
First witnesses tomorrow at VIVA
everyone expects to be the ina
week of the trial will be Maurlc'
B. O'Neil, chief of the New Orlean
Bureau of Identification.
It is to him that the defense i
looking for testimony to comba
fIngerprint evidence offered b.
the Crown as proof that de Marlg
ny was in Sir Harry's room a
the time of the Staying.
i O'Neirs appearance may take
spectacular turn, since The defens
,|has suggested that the tingerprln
on exhibit was faxed, and actua
" did not come from a bedscree
in the death room as Capt. Jane
/, o. Barker of the Miami polio
has testified.
' Chief Defense Counsel Godfre
Higgs made the suggestion IN eros
a examining Barker, and de Marlgn
p was careful to say in his test
q mony that he was asked TO pou
j. a glass of water for Capt. +. "
Continued on Page Two; Col. Z
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VATICAN ATTACK
DENIED BY U. S.
Allied Headquarters Re.
ports That Investiga-
ton Complete

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers. Nov. 7. -(P)- Allied head
quarters announced today that a
thorough investigation showed that
Vatican city was not bombed by
the Allies Friday night.
The flat denial of German pro-
paganda claims that the Allies
were responsible for the violation
CT Vatican territory followed an
earlier statement that headquar-
tiers had no knowledge of the bonn
bling.
The later statement said:
"While it is manifestly impossl-
BILE to establish beyond doubt the
fall of bombs of aircraft partlcl-
pating in night operations, a thor
ough investigation of missions car
ried out during the night OF NO
vember Sc indicates that crews
adhered to their definite instruc-
tons and did not bomb Vatican
City"
The Vatican radio seemingly
confirmed Berlin and Rome re-
ports of the attack yesterday. say
| ing that an unidentified plane
flew low over Vatican City ano
dropped four bombs which die
| Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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HEIGHTS ARE /
British Smash 7 san
East AS -
ENEMY IS 2ERATE
Another Division OF Nazii
Troops Hurled Against
Fifth Army

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Nov. 7.-P
American troops in bril-
liant mountain fighting which
surprised the Germans have
seized dominating heights
outflanking strategic Migna-
no in Italy, headquarters an
nounced today, winning posi-
tons for a plunge up a broad
valley to bypass the Nazis'
powerful new Aurunci noun
tain strongholds.
A British offensive to the
east smashed forward as
deep as five miles, reeling the
Germans back from their
Trigno line, as Allied warriors
captured So towns and villa.
ges in a blazing climax to a
year of war since the Allied
landings in French North At
RIGA.
Fighting desperately, the
Germans threw still another
division - the Gath infantry
against the Fifth Arnav
Nine Nazi divisions now are
pitted against the Allies, six
of them engaging the Fifth
Army.
Galluccio Is Captured
Galluccio, three miles southwest
of Mignano, was captured as It..
Gen. Mark W. C1ark's soldiers surg
ed forward to take heights rising
to $500 feet on both sides of Mig
nano.
These victories raised the posi-
bility of by-passing Mignano com
pletely for sweep up the via Cas-
lima along the broad valley leading
to Casino and Rome, in a drive
outflanking the Aurunci mountain
range on which the Nazis intended
to establish the west coast anchor
of a new defense line.
Nearer the west coast, British
Fifth Army patrols crossed tht
Garigliano river at least at one
point.
The Eighth Army, beating back {
series of sharp. tank-spearheadet
enemy counterthrusts, hammered
out gains up to five miles in sec
tors near the Adriatic coast for {;
total advance of 10 miles in thre,
days.
Continued on Page Five: Col.
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E4S7OV FALLS TO S7ALINS S7EA7NROLLER;
SEVENTY RUSSIAN TOWNS RECAP7URED;;
ALLIES SURPRISE FOE IN MIGNANO SECTOR
Bulk Of Nations Miners
WillResumeW orkToday

long controversy bewteen the
UNIV and mine operators.
The agreement, approved
with minor reservations by the
War Labor Board, boosts the
daily basic wage of soft coal
miners from 81 to $3.50 and
adds an hour to their daily
working time. Hard coal min
ers in Pennsylvania received a
70-cent daily increase.
Still to be ironed out by gov
eminent agencies is the amount
of an increase in coal prices
to offset the boost in miners
pay envelopes. Estimates have
ranged from Is to As cents a
ton.
Here is the picture in the
coal fields:
Pennsylvania-virtually 100
per cent production expected
Monday in soft coal mines.
Continued on Page Two; Col.
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pected to return to work under
a higher-pay agreement, steel
workers were reported determin-
ed to seek 15-cents an hour pay
increase.
3. Chairman William H. Davis
of the War Labor Board told Con-
gress that present wage controls
are forcing workers to pay dear
er for the anti-inflation program
that "other segments'' of society
4. Congressional foes and advo-
Gates of subsidies to keep down
retail food prices-payments the
Administration claims are neces-
sary to stave off inflation-con.
tinued in indecisive battle.
S. While a strike vote was be-
ing conducted among more than
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Elections Show COP Slowly Gaining

if the Republicans were not COM
ing back into power.
The real reason for these chan
ges, is, I believe, a simple one: 1t
is that when a party has been In
power for a good many years. tne
new men who are coming along
c llan no longer rise to the top with
in 9't that party, and so they appear ,aa1
III Tho tho imposition party. The 1882
~ non W. If new men became Demo-
Gratis, followed Roosevelt 9s' tne 1919 r,a
were called New Dealers, ,,e ene Inc .
CROP crop of new men are nec f"r 3
fHp are looking 1or d
Continued on Page Two; COL .
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WASHINGTON, Nov. T LIP -
Mounting pressure from labor Or
CARNATIONS for a loosening of wage
controls lent new stringency to
the nations increasing economic
problems today.
With President Roosevelts Ia
bor-industry-public board ready to
open an investigation tomorrow
into the wartime cost of living,
the economic picture presented
these principal facts:
l. The United States Chamber
of Commerce interpreted the pay
raise just granted coal miners
as the probable entering wedge
of a break in the Sterilization
program.
2. With striking coal miners ex-
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Thunderbolt Fighter
Drops Into Waterway
But Pilot Uninjured

A PAT (Thunderbolt) fight
er plane from the Wilmington
Army Air Base was forced
down in the inland waterway
Sunday afternoon about 4:45
o'clock but the pilot escaped
injury, it was announced Sum
day night by the base public
relations office.
According to witnesses of the
accident, the plane was about
300 feet from the water on a
routine training fligh: when the
motor suddenly became inoper-
alive. The pilot brought the
plane down to water level and
by dragging the tail into the
water was able to break the
shock enough to save himself
from injury or death.
The pursuit plane suffered
no damage beyond bent pro-
peller and thorough soaking
in the salt water Of the intra-
coastal canal. Base authorities
expect to have the ship raised
shortly where it will be trans
ported back to the home field.
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BY The Associated Press
The bulk of the nations min
ers return to the pits today
Monday, winding up the last
of four strikes which Interior
Secretary Ickes says have
thrown coal production more
than 40,0O0,O0O tons behind
schedule this year.
Some of the miners already
had resumed work last week
following settlement Of the
latest walkout on Wednesday.
All are expected to be on the
job in a day or so, with pros
poets for normal operations by
mid-week. .-.-
The miners go back under a
new wage contract negotiated
by Ickes, as fuel administrator,
and the United Mine Workers
after the government had taken
over operations Of the mines
for the second time during the
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New Problems Seen In Economic Plan

100000 rail employees, a special
presidential board prepared to SUBJ
NIT by November Is report on
its investigation of their higher
wage demands.
The living cost Investigators.
all drawn from the War Labor
Board which has jurisdiction over
wages, were instructed to report
in go days. The inquiry followed
complaints by union leaders that
living costs have mounted faster
than wage increases. '.
Meantime, John L. Lewis, Unit
ed Mine Workers chief, and Sec
rotary of Interior Ickes as Fed.
eral boss of the mines, sought to
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81.
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Approximately 40, 000, 900 Rus
slams have had to evacuate
their homes. Picture the mis-
cry of these people - untold
millions of them - living In
dugouts and huts without food
or clothing in the winter. Ten
million Russians died of war
wounds, starvation, disease,
and exposure. This is what the
Russians have suffered in the
past two years.
The Russian War Relief IS
Just one of the n agencies in
the Community War Chest of
Wilmington and New Hanover
county.
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RAIL LINK SLICED
German Airmen Taken On
Ground In Speedy
Red Onslaught
FOE HACKED TO BITS
Nazis Driven Back Toward
Pripet Marshes Above
Ukraine City

LONDON, Monday, Nov. 8.
troops racing
toward the Rumanian border
in an effort to trap hundreds
of thousands of battered Ger
mans anchored between the
Dnieper river and the Black
Sea yesterday captured the
key rail junction of Fastiv,
IS miles southwest of fallen
Kiev.
The capture cut the main
rail link connecting the Ger
man forces in the northern
Ukraine with those battling
so desperately against devel-
oping disaster at Krivoi Rog,
1910 miles to the southeast.
So swift was the Russian
break-through beyond Kiev,
carried out on the 26th ami
versary of the Soviet revolu-
ton, that German airmen
were nabbed before they
could get their planes off the
ground, and whole trainloads
of Nazi equipment were seiz-
ed, Moscow said.
Advancing Rapidly -
Seventy towns and hamlets were
reported swept up by Gen. Nike.
lai F. Vatutin's tanks and infan-
try units, advancing at mile-an-
hour clip toward the Rumanian
border, $50 miles to the south
west.
Eighteen miles northwest Of the
Ukraine capital the Russians
plunged on through Nemyeshaeva
on the rail route to Korosten, hack
ing the Germans to pieces and
steadily pressing them back to-
ward the Pripet marshes.
Huge losses were inflicted on
the Germans, said midnight
communique supplement recorded
by the Soviet monitor from Mos
COW broadcast, and large num-
Der of prisoners were taken. More
than 100 guns and 400 trucks with
supplies were declared captured
in addition to the intact trainloads
caught in the yards at Fastov.
German broadcasts admitted
Nazi Withdrawals under the inn
pact of superior forces"
The tone of the Soviet communi-
que suggested break-through az
catastrophe for the Germans as
the recent Red army plunge across
the Nogaisk steppe from fallen
Melitopol. One Soviet unit captur-
ed "all the equipment of the 175th
German artillery regiment" the
bulletin said.
Soviet Stormovic fighters laid
down a 1nurderous fire on retreat
ing Axis troops whose failure to
make a successful stand imperil-
led huge German forces in the
Krivoi Observation-Disclosures tria-
gle in the Dnieper bend.
Near one captured village the
Russians destroyed ten German
planes (which did not have time
to take to the air." the supple
ment said.
In the Crimea, the Russians de-
clared they beat down German
counterattacks on their bridge
heads near Kerch at the eastern
end of the peninsula, killing 1000
of the enemy northeast of Kerch.
The Soviet amphibious forces
invading the peninsula, which has
already been sealed off by the
Russians on the north, improved
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
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son Harbor at Rabaul, the key
New Britain base Japan is deter
mined not to lose.
Mitchell bombers from Admiral
Halsey's Thirteenth Airforce swept
the southern coast of Bougainville.
sinking or damaging three small
coastal vessels and numerous bar.
ges.
Land, sea and air operations
we're the lightest since the spurreo
drive to take the northern Solo
mons began on November 1.
A spokesman said ground opera.
tons on Bougainville and Choise.
full islands apparently were pro.
ceeding according to plan and cts
up to the Japanese to make the
next move" Marines who landed
on the west central coast of Bou'
GAINESVILLE on November l were
reported three days ago to be con-
solidating their positions and mop
ping up enemy units on offshore is
lets after securing their beach
head.
Nothing official has been heard
from American Army units or
Choiseful since November 3, wher
they were reported driving thu
enemy from one position foul
miles from the original landing
point.
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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WEATHER

FORECAST:
NoRIR CAROLINA: Rain in eastern
portion
Eastern Standard Time)
=, Vby U. S. Weather Bureau)
chronological data for the "a hours
eNoiiis 80 p. m, yesterday.
ION Temperature
+."V D. NJ, 50, $50 a. M, 81, 1870
n III. 49, l;3O p. m, II. Maximum rs,
'1ii'ii'lum 50, NsN IS, Normal So.
Lon Humidity
Lou a, M, 81, 80 a. M, SO, 1870
''' 3d. 1880 p. m, 81.
To.., Precipitation
'uAl Tor the "a hours ending 1880
rnn 600 inches.
on IO "a since the first of the month,
H. Tides For Today
Il V.ofn the Tide Tables published by
u coast and Geodetic Survey
WYr,i High Low
--iiailgton ------- 6:25a 1:08a
N.,o,,l 6:55p 1859
70iiDoro Inlet ---------- 4:23a 10:39s
s.,nx,. Asp II :04r
Mo oanflse' 6:38 a. m, Sunset, ia p. m
C.nn o:S2 p, Moonset, 2:47 a.
on s1,r rear River stage at Fayetteville
1olIuay' at a. M, $40 feet.
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Heavy japanese Cruiser
Believed Hit By Allies

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Monday,
Nov. 8-(P-A probable torpedo hit on heavy Japanese
cruiser at Rabaul and night bombing attacks on light
cruiser and destroyer tender in New Ireland waters with
unknown result announced today as Japanese Ship
ping kept moving into this for showdown battle
Australafown Beauforts scored the probable strike
and at the same time destroyed cargo vessel in Friday
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BY WALLER LlPPMANN

n, "ALKEh LlPElANN
5;a aae elections do more than in,
ra' they demonstrate, that the
,. SpolASlollity Of governing the
" T L.y has been passing gradual
out surely into the hand of the
~ tYaollcans. There are, outside
of n, solld South thirty-eight states;
nnh Gese twenty-four now have Re-
an ' s governors, in twenty-sev-
f.. 'qe legislature is controlled by
t H,e Republicans, and in two more
Eor. control is divided. In the
norH se me Democrats have only q
se olillhal majority of fourteen
that S' :. mis- has meant in practice
trol 'hey are no longer in con
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-16
Nary axes Care
of Lawson's Bomber

A. soon AIS 7 did the navy hoNS
wu-5 3.. o,sru> they drained
.t a.' ar -a-. except te" ga.-
-fr rtrrr ut fHr royS guf ~ after
. crow g0t cIt An army
d5us0N hooked the Rupiureh
i'.t.-t, r--7frl -r1~ sur -irN cd o.
Honr fUe p.r. Wo-Ara.Na1 down
------t--.t -aA+- tlaa- watched the
CLAWS of u.g crane reach down
ar1 u..k 8p our snip as NJ n
Ml---ld lQ pound. Lhc- crane
SWUNG If -'a0'y Up on INC deck OF
f-o Hornet
We We're standing there watch
ING trt=. --ft-EI II # FRI aF4fe up
t1 me and S7d Don't tell the
navy hoNs ANYTHING They don't
know where you're going
[ nodded and kept looking al
'hc Hornet SHc was a great
SIGHT ! can't dc,cr.hc Tho feeling
/ GOT standing 'tcic. looking up
az her Sides. Maybe the thing l
lclt WAS gust PLAN patriotism All
J know is that % was a fine feel
Irg 10 know that she was there
and LCadN in holm lis
--','-----,tt + r-f+4+f+aeits -reitefte
know thar our plane got on Look.
ING around now ! saw that Doc
mtlc and York were sending some
ol The planes 90 "a DoaEby hangar
instead Of 90 The wharf.
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.a- er e3Tr-'o the
..a.-Nn.-
Ash p.f 're Gaps down Tor THE
r- aea 'ato out "a yell ar The
sa., ataI guess sac al. GOT
'ra -#we twptl feeling IN The
-tr-rer fHaf I d.d
|r American aIcra'' carrier
N.t rjrrrC1fn U.S. Three ~ Our
H.-ls wore GIfea5, ou US deck
Damn Nlnt she SMALL
somebody sand n tho inter-
phone
NFe landed on the field and
faNet pt.r 20 fre side where
paoftr and York were bcckou-
rr ue. 4 rolled hack my window
r5 oakrd clown az them
Is everything okay 80 boo
If+.o asked
said everything was
"TaNi of the field and park
~ the edge of the Hornets
wharf They'll take care OF YOU
there soo.Ittie said