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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-20
CHURCHILL BACK
AT DOWNING ST.
Will Make Report To Ma.
ton On Quebec Con-
ference Plans

| LONDON. Sept. 19.-CP-Prine
Minister Winston Churchill, bear
ing the secrets of the Quebec and
Washington war councils, return
ed home tonight and plunged into
preparation of a report to the ma
ton ,on his talks with President
Roosevelt covering the whole OF
the global situation, both military
and diplomatic.
Mrs. Churchill, Subaltern Mary
Churchill, his daughter, and Bren-
dan Bracken, British minister Of
information, came with him.
The prime minister will open a
two-day debate at forthcoming
reconvening of Parliament, and
although much of what happened
on the other side of the Atlantic
following his arrival in Canada on
Aug. 10 must remain untold, ne
will give a general account for
which the ears of the world will be
attuned.
The Italian surrender, which
came during Churchill's absence
of six weeks, will provide the VIC
tory theme for his speech. At the
same time, his appearance In COM
mons after his longest wartime
absence from the country yet, will
give him an opportunity to answer
critics who have been sharpshoot-
ing at Allied strategy in Italy
In the diplomatic field 1t IS ex-
pected he will shed more light on
Observation-Disclosures relations
and the projected three-poWer con-
ference for which the groundwork
is reported to have been laid.
With the enormous battle for Eu-
rope just beginning to unfold on
the Italian peninsula, Britons ex-
nected little information from the
prime minister on future Allied in
tentions against the continent
from other directions.
They looked forward, however
to learning more details OF the
arrnistice with Premier Marsha
Badoglio and the events leading
It was considered likely ne
would reply to those who nave
been asking questions about the
lull between the time Of the over
throw of Benito Mussolini and the
invasion of the mainland; why the
attack was not made farther up
the peninsula and why Hitler coulo
come to the rescue of Mussolm1
before the Allies had laid hands
on the former Italian dictator.
In the words of one commenta-
tor Churchill had a ready-maoe
answer to at least some OF these
questions. -
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-20
BY WALTER LIPPMAN

What can we do who do not share
their danger for the men upon Sal
emo Beach? We can give them our
work, our things, our confidence
through thick and thin, the affec-
ton of OUR hearts which holds
them always close and present in
our minds. Yet there is something
else, and unless we can give that,
too, we fail them and rob them
and deny them. That something
else, without which their salt will
lose it's SAVIOR, is to keep forever
strong and certain the meaning
of their deeds.
We are resolved, we say, to learn
from our failures in the other
great war of our generation. If
so, then first of all let us be sure
we realize that the root of our
failure was that so quickly We for
got, and then were so willing to
diminish and degrade the mean
ing of the cause in which our men
fought and suffered and died..
There is surcease from pain, and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-20
Allies Announce Safe
Arrival Of Bad09liO
Sunday Horse Racing
Will Be Aired Today

The advantages and disad-
yantag es of horse racing at Le-
gion stadium on Sunday are ex-
pected to be aired before the
board of county commission
ers at its meeting Monday
afternoon.
The board has extended an
invitation to the public to par
ticipate in the discussions.
When L. M. Todd last week
requested permission to stage
the Sunday afternoon races,
Commissioners Addison Hew-
lett, ST., and George Trask
were vigorously opposed; Com
missioner Lewis j. Coleman
thought the sport would offer
needed recreation to the city's
war workers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-20
Helped Direct Allied OPP.
erations Against Ger
mans In Sardinia
By IVES GALLAGHER

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 19.-'R-
Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio
is on the Allied side of the battle
lines in Italy, Allied headquarters
announced today.
He gave the orders to GUST the
Germans from Sardinia after
reaching Allied-held soil and the
Garrison obeyed, it was disclosed.
In agreement with Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, he also used units
of the Italian fleet to help in the
operation.
Badoglio has been on Alied-held
Italian soil since the Germans &C.
cupied proclamation on Sept. 8.
There was no definite informa-
ton available here on the details
of Badoglio's escape from the
Germans.
1t was understood, however, that
he arrived by plane, giving the
Germans the slip in the Florence
area after Marshal Albert Kes.
selring, German commander in
Southern Italy, had seized all the
airdromes south of Rome.
Badoglio, who formed an Italian
government Immediately after
Renito Mussolini's custer from Of
flee on July Is, had been reported
in Allied territory several times,
but today's was the first official
announcement of his whereabouts
(This dispatch did not mention
King Vittorio Emanuele, but there
have been indications that the king
also escaped from the Germans
On Sept. II the U. S. Foreign
Broadcast Intelligence service re-
corded broadcasts by an unidenti-
fled radio station which read
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Standby Leaves Russia
By Plane For America

MOSCOW, Sept. 19.-(R-U.
S. Ambassador Admiral Will
liam H. Standley left Moscow
by plane for Washington to-
day for what have been de-
scribed officially as consulta-
tiOns.
tits considered unlikely here
however, that the American
representative will return to
the Soviet union. Admiral
Standby is II and had not PLAN
ned to spend another winter in
Russia unless his presence was
considered absolutely neces-
sary.
admiral Standley's depar-
ture less than "a hours after
the Washington announcement
yesterday that he had been
called home for conferences,
raised speculation in London
that his return might open the
way for w. Averell Hartman,
London lend lease administra-
tor, to participate in a three
power conference in Moscow.)
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-20
Hamburg II Per Cent Destroyed
By Four Hammering Air Attacks
Germany's Second Largest
Metropolis Has Ceased
To Exist
BY HENRY B. JAMESON

LONDON, Monday, Sept. 20.-IR
-Seventy-seven per cent of sprawl
ing Hamburg, formerly Germany
second largest city and chief port,
lies in ruins as a grim and smoul-
dering example of what is in store
for Berlin and other cities when
Allied air power cuts loose in its
full and awful fury.
The full story Of the unprece-
denied devastation produced in the
one-time industrial center by four
Raj and two American Flying
Fortress raids between July "a and
Aug. at cost of 81 bombers was
disclosed by an Raj commentator
today after weeks of study of pho
tographs and intelligence reports
They show the once-flourishing
city of 1.8O0,00 population has, for
the time being at least, almost
ceased to exist.
Altogether. between 5000 and g.
900 acres-about nine square miles
were devastated.
That is nearly 100 times Coven'
try's similarly damaged area, anc
nearly go times greater than the
principal area of devastation ir
London CLOS acres) at the peak Of
the German aerial attack to KNOCK
Britain from the war in 1910.
The built III" area of Hamburg
which was destroyed includes the
city proper and its suburbs.
The Raj dropped approximately
1000 long tons 0,840 U. S. tons)
of bombs on Hamburg but the ad
ditional tonnage dumped by the
Fortresses has not been revealed
In their biggest raid on Coven
try 400 German planes dropped
$50 tons in nine hours-a rate o.
almost ton per minute.
In the last big raid on Hamburg
the Raj dropped 1850 long tons
in As minutes-a rate OF more thar
so tons per minute, or more thar
so times the intensity of the larges'
Coventry raid.
The Hamburg photographs revea
an almost uniform expanse OF gut
ted buildings. Fire swept through
street after street for miles, par
ticularly in commercial and por
areas, destroying everything.
Light patches measuring up tt
I'm Yards across dot the city where
big blockbusters leveled even big
steel and concrete buildings.
The official damage list, which
scrupulously includes hospitals
churches and other institution:
which could not escape the holo
caust, includes as almost entire
| ly destroyed eight shipbuildins
Yards, three oil works, six nonfer
rous metal works, 20 armament
and steel works, II chemica
works. eight textile plants, q food
stuff plants, 81 miscellaneous fac
tories, 16 gas and electric plants
ID administrative buildings of
large army camp, 419 warehouses
the city's main railroad station
and five suburban stations.
Destruction of essentials like
TRANSFORMATION, o m m u n, lcatlor
stores and police stations so thor
oughly disrupted the urban life
that it practically stopped, the Min
istry of Economic Warfare adeee
to the RATS report.
The flight of the terrified popu
lation intensified the production
paralysis and caused a great ad
ministrative tangle.
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FBI REPORTS
ON SABOTAGE
| los Actual Cases
Found; None Were Dr.
rected By Enemy

NEW YORK, Sept 19.-tR-The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
up to Aug. 81, 1913, investigated
1854 cases, but Gas yet there has
been no evidence of accomplished
sabotage having been directed by
a foreign government" Lee R.
Pennington, assistant to FBI Chief
J. Edgar Hoover, said today.
Addressing the 22nd annual con-
vention of the Disabled American
Veterans, Pennington disclosed
that 485 persons had been con-
victed in sabotage cases, with 9TH
err cases pending, but he added
that most cases in industrial plants
involved persons who have per-
sonal axes to grind" The near
est approach to accomplished sab
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Eleven More Days Left
To Achieve Bond Quota

Water building will be manned by
the North Carolina Colonial
Danes, and the one at Belk-Wll'
iiams department store will be
operated, for three days, by the
Ladies' Concordia Society and the
last of the week by the Stamp
Defiance chapter, Daughters OF
American Revolution.
The house-to-house campaign
will continue, with the Citizens
Service corps and other volunteers
offering Wilmington housewives
the patriotic privilege of helping
to invest in War bonds.
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-20
AnleriicanFlag
Flying Above
Mighty Fleet
Navy Reveals l4,O72 Yes.
sells Now Range
Over Seven Seas
AIR ARM STRONG
More Than 1000 New
Ships Put Into Com
mission In July

WASHINGTON, Sept. 49,
-lP,-A giant fleet. might
lest in world history" carries
+be United States flag today
nm all oceans and seas.
And. in the skies, is "the
most powerful naval air force
in the world"
The Navy proudly gave the
descriptions today in an in
rentorv disclosing gigantic
PRODUCTION of ships, planes,
neutrality-suspicious. that
riII is adding swiftly to the
greatest sea-air power OF
earth,
On Seas
m the seas, the Navy observed,
.,0 fleet is composed of 14.O72
vessels including 613 warships.
7s-ee years ago there were only
;0B vessels. numbering but 1888
fighting ships,
The Navy arr forces have more
than $4,000 planes-dive bombers,
torpedo bombers, fighters, patrol
satos, planes OF all types. Three
years ago there were LIZA naval
planes of all types.
Speed of the production that has
built up the fleet and air arm is
portrayed in these comparative
figures:
In July, 1910, the Navy re-
ceived five newly completed YES
sels; in July, 1913, almost 1000.
In July, 1910, the Navy re-
ceived IS new airplanes; in June,
1913. almost 1000"
Emphasis in the swift job of
building the worlds mightiest
fleet has been laid on hard hitting
Warships. comhatant vessels that
can battle it out with any enemy
craft.
In that fighting category 1888
new ships have been completed
since July 1910, at a cost OF 49,
OO,OOo,OOo. But the other types
have not been neglected. Mine
craft and patrol boats built in the
last three years total 1874 and
cost S02o,OO0,O0O; auxiliaries num-
Der l5l, and district craft 654.
Landing craft, the boats that
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Continued Page Three; Col p Continued
Work On Third Center
Starts Here This Week

The low bidder for the construc-
ton of third commercial build.
ing for war workers to be located
on the Carolina Beach road oppo-
site Maffitt Village, was Clarence
Mobley construction company of
Augusta, Georgia, Henry R. En-
DRY, executive director of the
Housing Authority for the City of
Wilmington, announced Sunday.
The Georgia firm has agreed to
do the work for $76, TAO. The only
other bidder was L. J. Coleman of
Wilmington, whose price was $92,-
900.
The contract has been executed,
and construction is expected to
get underway within the coming
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-20
MAJOR VICTORY
Red Army Smashes More
Than 10000 Germans
In Forward Drive
LOO TOWNS FALL
Germans Being Steadily
Pushed Back Toward
Dnieper River

LONDON, Monday, Sept.
20.-P)-A powerful Red
army offensive has cracked
the gateway to Smolensk on
the Napoleon road of retreat,
smashing more than 10000
Germans manning six lines
of Notifications 80 miles
northeast of that German
central stronghold, Moscow
announced early today.
Sweeping westward along a
700-mile front with gathering
momentum the Red army also
captured more than LOO
towns, among them Krasno-
grad. Lubny, Piryatin and
Priluki - the last major axis
bastions short of the Ukraine
capital of Kiev.
Spearhead
A spearhead was driven to within
"a miles of the lower Dnieper riv-
er. the bulletin said, as the Red
army rolled on at a pace making
it doubtful whether the German
flight would halt at the Dnieper
river.
A savage four-day fight that
crushed Several German divis-
ions'' and resulted in the cap
ture Of 600 Germans and enormous
stocks of enemy equipment toppled
Dukhovschina and Yartsevo, on the
approac hes to Smolensk.
Marshal Joseph Stain last night
issued two orders of the day which
announced the great central front
and Ukraine victories. He order
ed the usual salvoes from Mos
cows victory cannon to celebrate
them.
The Russians were giving the
enemy no respite and are pursuing
and smashing enemy units" said
the midnight supplement to the
daily communique. 1t disclosed
that more than 5000 Germans had
been cut down in their westward
flight during the day.
Scores of Nazi tanks and ammu-
milton dumps and hundreds of guns
and mortars were seized in the
break-through on the central front,
the bulletin said.
Surging back over battlefields
hallowed by the brilliant 1941 So
Wet defense that saved Moscow
from the invaders, the Russians
stormed and captured Yartsevo and
Dukhovschina, 80 miles northeast
of Smolensk. Both of these points
had been fortified by the Germans
over two year period.
''Thus the strongly-fortified Ger
man defense line which has been
in existence for a long time and
which closed the so-called Smo-
lensk gates has been broken"
Stalin's triumphant announcement
read.
Moscow's victory cannon doomed
their salutes to the victory on the
approaches to Smolensk, 230 miles
west of the Soviet capital.
The two orders of the day and a
communique recorded by the Soviet
Monitor disclosed that a bleeding
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week, Mr.. Emory said
Bids were opened Friday at
headquarters of the Federal Pub
lie Housing Authority in Atlanta.
The first commercial building is
scheduled for completion this
week.
Plans were drawn by the archi-
tectural firm of Lynch and Foard
and call for the block-long build
ing to be constructed to provide
commercial spaces for a grocery,
beauty shop, drug store, barber
shop, and two smaller spaces, to
be used as shoe repair shop and
laundry pickup station.
The proposed building will be
made of cinder- block.
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only eleven more War-bond
ttnopping days before the close of
N' r. lhlrd War Loan drive here!
Inc War Finance committee an
T. 0ullced Sunday that all was ready
wi, another hard-hitting week.
al4i all volunteer Bond statesmen
r. r,epared to issue Wil1ningtonians
b,' e extra victory paper they must
~ Ivy II the quota of Sc, 900 is to
We reached.
lidh the amount has been raised.
T. "a new Bond booth will open on
,. VIC lawn Of the postoffice this
EEK ceek, under the direction of the
Is'Holc Daughters of America.
'eSh"hlle. the booth at the Tide
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TWO TOWNS FALL
Clark's Troops Take Alta
villa And Battipaglia
In Offensive
ITALIANS ARE ACTIVE
Credited With Driving Ger
man Troops From
Sardinia
ITALIANS ARE ACTIVE

ALLIE D HEADQUAR.
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Sept. 10. - (P) - German
troops were fleeing from the
Mediterranean island of Sar-
DINA today under attack by
two Italian divisions and an
Allied Communique said their
evacuation to Corsica was
"almost completed"
(The British radio said
French patriots and Italian
troops, combining in action
against the Germans, also
had seized control of Ajaccio,
capital city of Corsica, but
that German troops, reinforc-
ed by the Sardinia evacua-
ton, had occupied Bastia,
small Corsican seaport and
railway terminal on the
northeast coast.)
Moves Ahead
The American Fifth Army con-
tinued its steady expansion OF the
Salerno bridgehead in the height
ening battle for Italy, capturing
the mountain village OF Altavilla,
10 miles inland, and Selling the
nearby town Of Battipaglia, once
an important Axis air base.
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's forces
made other generations into ene-
my positions at unspecified points
and patrols pushed out further be-
yond the zone where German lines
had been reported earlier to be
thinning out.
The German high command
communique announced that Nazi
troops in southern Italy 'have de-
tached themselves f n the enemy
in accordance with plan and have
taken up a shorter line of resist
ance-in other words, retreated.
An official Allied announcement
disclosed for the first time that
Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who took
over the government Of Italy when
Benito Mussolini was ousted, is
now in Allied-held Italian territory.
The new premier has been on the
Allied side of the battle lines since
/ nnnI1y,ind ctr9fnOJr
points in and around Rome the
day after his armistice proclama-
ton, the announcement said. 1t
was presumed that he and MEM
bers of his government would work
closely with the Allies on italian
soil.
(The Berlin radio declared earl
Ter in the day that Badoglio was
in North Africa to prepare for the
enrolment of Italian prisoners in
the Allied armies. This, the broad
cast asserted, would be in viola
ton of international law
| Bombers and fighters Of the AL.
lies Northwest African Air For
ces, operating in skies swept clear
of enemy opposition, lashed out
once more at German air bases
in the vicinity of Rome in a con-
tinuation of aerial attacks similar
to those on the Naples Salerno
area before Allied assault troops
| landed there.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
ery's British Eighth Army advance
ed at a rapid pace. His column
pushing up the coastal highway al
ready had joined with the Fifth
Army at the southern edge of the
Salerno bridgehead near Agropoli
and official reports did not say
how far the swift thrust had car
ried into the mountainous interior
where enemy troops and motor
conveys were fleeing toward the
north.
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WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Rain Monday
and slightly cooler in eastern portion
Monday afternoon.
RIVER STAGE
Stage Of tho Cape Fear river at
Fayetteville at 8 a. M, on Sunday,
September 10, S.S7 feet
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
INTRODUCING

z CAROLYN MARGARET HERN. born February 20 to
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fry Hem (Georg Ana Voelkner).
RICHARD WILLIAM RUEN JR. born March 1 TO Mr.
and Mrs. Richard William Ruen (Jeune Fikes
MARK HAMMER WILSON. born March to Mr.. and
Mrs Walter f. Wilson Marguerite Kammer).
CORNELIUS FLYNN. =. born March TO Mr. and Mrs
Cornelius Flynn Julia Dmleavy).
DAUGHTER. born march to 1t and Mrs. George
Brannon isabelle DuCharme).
BRUCE JOSEPH RUBIN =. born March 10 to Mr. and
Mrs James l. Rubin (Sandra Balbrer).
ROBERT ALLEN DAVIDGE. born February % to Mr..
and Mrs. Ronald p Davidge (Jeanne Thurlow).
MILTON STERLING SECoR JR... born March to Mr..
and Mrs. Milton Sterling Secor June Marks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
Mothers Pick Aides

ELECTION OF officers will
take place at the meeting Of the
Northeastern YMCA Mothers
Club at 2 p. m. Monday. Subject
of the talk will be Religion and
the Home"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
Magyar Party Thursday

MEMBERS OF the Magyar
Women's Club will hold card
party Thursday evening in the
Verhovay Building in West
jefferson to benefit the Red
Cross.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
Their Sd Carnival

Victory Carnival was the
third 10 be given by the con-
vent girls but the first one TO
be completely revamped TO TT
a wartime program. Rivalry
muchroomed between the classes
as plans for the carnival grad
ually took shape.
Arrangements were solely in
the hands of the girls as each
class planned and constructed
its own booth and strove TO
outsell the others in making
reservations for the Victory
dinner.
The schools auditorium. re-
fectory and gymnasium were
alive with carnival activity AT
2 p. m, when the project was
officially opened 10 friends and
relatives Of the students.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
Sdcred
He art Girls
In CdrnvdI

nETROITS youngsters aren't
~ exactly leaving il up TO
their elders to boost the USO.
Red Cross and other patriotic
and charity organizations, but
they. too. are right in there
working for the good of the
servicemen.
For instance, the girls OF the
Convent of the Sacred Heart,
Lawrence and Woodrow Wilson.
got together last week on a Vic
tory Carnival which was a great
success in that IL gave them a
bullying pocketbook TO present
to the USO and other home
front organizations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
All in Red, White, Blue

Refreshments were served in
the auditorium through the eff
forts Of the ninth grade girls.
who provided ice cream, cookies.
cakes and sandwiches on patri-
otically dressed card tables.
Dinner was served by cos
TUNED girls for some 300 people
between $50 and z p. m. in the
refectory. There again the red,
white and blue motif and the
centerpieces of flag clusters
drew the most attention and ad-
miration from the guests. Even
the napkins were star-sparkled
bits Of the three colors.
Among the many patronesses
Of the Victory Carnival:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-14
Decorate 8 Booths

Inside the gymnasium were
eight booths decorated with red,
white and blue twisted Gre pc
paper and each boasting an
American flag. Articles on sale
there and prizes for the various
games were provided by local
shops and by the members of the
classes sponsoring the booths.
One booth was filled with
baked goods - everything from
rolls to pies which were made by
the girls and their mothers.
Another booth offered a roulette
W h @ e | as its main attraction.
Another had pictures, crosses.
balloons. flowers and presents
for servicemen on sale. A war
stamp and bond stand occupied
floor space, too. while the ma
tons war effort was aide d
further by the converts tots.
who pulle d decorated boxes
around in wagons for the guests
TO d deposit stockings, books,
paper bags and records.