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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
Senators See Long Pacific War;;
End May Come To Nazis Soon

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 Up -
Three senators just back from
10000 mile inspection trip
of world battlefronts said today
they believed that the war in the
Pacific would not end before 1915
but that a collapse of Germany
may come at any time.
Reporting publicly on their two
month flying trip to the war zones,
Senators Russell (D-Ga), Mead Cd
N.Y. and Brewster (R-Me) told
a press conference that our Ar
my and Navy are developing into
the toughest fighting machine the
world has ever seem
They said there was reason to
believe that Germany might not
last long, because Hitler had lost
the oil of Russia, control of the
Mediterranean and the submarine
battle with shipping.
For that reason, they agreed that
plans ought to be worked out now
to move into Germany to control
the civil population, reorganlze
TRANSPORTATION and prevent chaos.
On the Pacific front, they said
there was the closest cooperation
between the Army and the Navy.
that not enough supplies and men
were being sent there yet, bus
that "the Japs know we are on
the offensive"
sketching other details OF the
world picture, Russell said he
did not believe the American PEG
pie had been given enough lntor-
nation about the "seamy side"
of some of the American fight
ing, that, in other words, the losses
had not been mentioned fully.
Mead said the Truman War In
vestigating committee, OF which
he and Brewster are members
would turn it's attention to develop
ing postwar aviation policy u
der which commercial planes from
this country would have acces;
to some of the airfields built W
United States funds in foreign
countries.
Brewster said the committee :
would urge that additional oil for
the United Nations be taken fro~
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
WAR DEPARTMENT
AIDING SOLDIERS
Army vitality Concerned
With Fitting Men
For Civilian Life

The War Department is concern.
ed not only with the making Of
soldiers but fitting them for civil
liam life and pursuits when they
return from the war.
Captain George Howard of the
Special Service Division of the
Army Service Forces, War depart
ment, explained all too briefly
how this is being done to the XII
wants club on Wednesday.
1t is an educational program with
no many ramificatio to EMU
merate. The four principal meth
DDS, he said, are first by visual,
or pictorial, delineation of what
is going forward in war zones, OF
what equipment is being used OF
developed, even if insignia en-
ployed by participants in the war.
The second is the establishment OF
libraries at training centers. The
third is by special courses for
men when off duty, and the fourth
by correspondence.
Captain Howard told of Camp
Davis libraries which he said are
excellently stocked with books
and were patronized by $500 men
last month. He told how thousands
of soldiers are taking advantage
of the classes being held at mill
tary encampments for instruction
in a multitude of skills, some valu-
able in wartime but mostly de-
signed to give the students means
of livelihood when peace returns,
and added that by the cooperation
of seventy-six colleges and univer-
sites correspondence courses are
available in a wide range of SUBJ
jects. So popular are these cour-
ses becoming, said Captain How
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

Inc Senators may well be right
IN not wishing to debate now the
soStract and general proposition
1dlo down in the Fulbright reso-
luuon. The action Of the House is
d clear and unimpeachable express
sion OF public opinion, and the next
step Is to move from the general
principle to the particular a n d
practical application of it.
though little attention has been
PAID to it as yet, something hap
pehed last week which will compel
!, A3ress to face the leay issues
u our foreign policy, or admit
mat 1t is not interested in them.
ny an agreement reached by Pres
1uent Roosevelt, Secretary H u
and President Quezon, resolution
mas been introduced in the Senate
ny MIR. Tydings and in the House
ny Mr.. Bell, Of Missouri, to give
ne Philippine Islands their COM
pete independence at any time
Mlthln 3 days of the passage of
sle resolution. Under existing law,
AloWn as the Tydings McDuffie
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
BAILEY DRAFT
PLAN GAINING
IN STRENGTH
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. -(P)-
Congressional strength built up

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. -(R-
Congressional strength built ur
5 idly today behind moves TO.
indr ction of childless government
employees and the UNDERGO age
group in larger numbers so as tt
cushion the general impact of the
draft on older men with chill
dren.
Most attention conferred on g
proposal by Senator's Bailey Cd
NC) and Clark D-MoJ which
would:
l. Forbid government employ
ment OF able-bodied, draft-age non.
fathers not indispensable in their
posts.
2. Forbid Washington desk as
signments to able-bodied, draft
age non-fathers holding Army ano
Navy commissions who could be
spared for combat duty.
At the same time, Senator Taft
(R-Ohio) disclosed that bi-parti'
san group of senator's would Of
fer a plan to prohibit deferments
to men under 80 years old on Octo
Der l unless they are 'indispen
sable" in agriculture Or in a
plant producing airplanes, ord
nance, munitions or ships, or ir
a mine producing minerals fol
use in waging war"
This measure would wipe Out
most occupational deferments fol
men under 80 in both government
and civilian activities, regardless
of fatherhood, and make them
draftable ahead of all older pre-
war fathers.
Both the government-employe
and UNDERGO preferential draf
plans were proposed as substi
tutes for the bill by Sentaor Vince
Ter (D-Mont) to postpone until
January l the induction of pre-
Pearl Harbor fathers. The Wheeler
measure appeared doomed in the
face of Army and Administration
opposition.
Nevertheless the fight for the
Wheeler bill went ahead on the
Senate floor, with Senator Dow
ney (D-CaliD assailing the Army
high command for what he called
it's failure to bring Germany TT
dust and to defeat months ago
by bombing, and for what he term
ed its emphasis on increasing {
land army "already to large"
eff they longer delay to force
the surrender of Germany by thu
full use of our bombers," Downey
declared, "then the day will no
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Allied Airn1en DESTROY
We1uak Munitions Dump
HUGE BLAST IS SEEN
Pilots Report Largest Elk.
plosion Witnessed In
South Pacific

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFI
Thursday, Sept. 30.-iR- Ameri-
can bombers smashed again at
the japanese base at Wewak,
New Guinea, and destroyed a
large munitions depot there, Gen
eral Macarthur announced today.
Pilots who took part in the long
range aerial assault said they
started the largest explosions ever
witnessed in the Southwest Pa
cific.
In addition to the destruction of
vital munition dumps, the bomb
ers also touched off large fuel
supplies and counted eight tow
ering fires as they left for their
home bases.
The communique said 145 tons
Of bombs were dropped on the
enemy's northeast New Guinea
base, heavy days work for that
area.
On the land side, Australian
troops battered their way through
fixed Japanese defenses to move
within 500 yards of the main jetty
at Finschhafen, Japanese ship
ping base overlooking their more
important bases at New Britain.
The advance was the first re.
ported for days after the Austral.
ian veterans ran into typical Jap,
anese pillbox and machine gun
emplacements.
The raid against WeWak was
not without stiff opposition. The
bombers smashed into a defend,
ing force of 40 japanese fighters
and destroyed eight of them.
Their aerial victory added new
gains to the imposing list of plane
losses inflicted on the japanese
there, the losses now mounting
lar in excess of 400.
This raid CT the enemy's opera.
tlonal base 1926 miles up the coast
from the present ground fighting
scene followed quickly another on
Monday in which more than &C
planes were destroyed and even
snlps OF a neWly-arrived convoy
were sunk.
General Macarthur termed the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
Walter Lippmann Says:
Senate May Be Correct
On Postwar Planning

act, the Philippines become an in
dependent sovereign state on July
4, 1916.
This action is being taken to
counteract the japanese move to
set up a Quisling puppet govern
ment in Manila.
Since no one will pretend that
the Philippines alone are capable
Of defending themselves, the ques-
ton must be faced as to how the
Philippines are to be defended aft
er the United Nations have recov-
cred them from the Japanese. I'm
der the existing act, the United
States retains it's naval reserva-
tons and fueling stations after
full independence is gained and
until a treaty dealing with them
has been negotiated with the Phil
ippine government. But the land
and air defenses of the islands
pass at once out of our hands.
1t is evident that this act, which
was passed in 1884, takes no ac-
count of the fact, so amply DEM
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fIO1 SSS LII Vic ll1lo1 push, ld'C
been patrolling the gulf
area for several days.
The stout mountain defens-
es north of Salerno, in which
the Germans for six days
gave ground grudgingly in
the face of continuous at
tacks, sagged suddenly early
yesterday and then vanished,
headquarters announced to-
day.
Tanks Thown Into Fight
The victorious army Of Lieut..
Gen. Mark W. Clark then rolled
down on the Naples plain. He
threw into battle his tanks and
mobile artillery, which had been
almost useless in the past week
of mountain fighting.
He was racing tonight for the
smoking and exploding city of $685..
fG00-the first even approaching
that size in all the vast areas Of
Africa, Sicily and Italy already
wrested from the Nazis. Rome
and Milan are two only larger
Italian cities.
Tht Germans were in swift, or
derby retreat which may not end
until they reach the Volturno river
line, 2 miles north of Naples and
almost due west of the great Fog
gia air center across the peninsula,
which fell with it's 10 virtually in
tact air fields Monday.
The enemy's defensive rim g
around Naples is broken a mill
tary spokesman declared emphat'
ically.
CThe British press association
said the Allies had entered POM
pei, the city, at the foot of Vesuvi.
us IL miles southeast of Naples,
which the volcano destroyed in
70 AID.
(The German radio acknowledge
ed that Castel san Giorgio and
Baronissi, % and "a miles south
east of Naples, had been evacu-
ated and that American reinforce
ments had landed. The German
communique said that, despite con-
tinuous rain and difficult road
conditions, our w n movements
took their anticipated course.~
The crackup of German resist
ance was accompanied by sharp
gains by American troops farther
inland and by the British Eighth
Army near the Adriatic coast.
The British wiped out deep
salient in the mountainous center,
establishing a straight line between
San Angelo, As miles east Of Ma
pies, and captured Melfi, II miles
farther east. Radio Algiers said
Angelo was captured.)
Along the Adriatic, the British
drove without substantial opposi-
ton IL miles north of Marguerite
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
Kirke L. Simpson Says:
Naples Fall To End
Second Phase Of War

in some measure to the enemv's
movements, unless tn Naples.
Foggia line turns out to be the
rre-selected Allied front in italy
for the time being while other on.
eratlons are set in motion. And
political rather than strictly mill.
tary considerations may play a
major part in determining just how
far up the Italian boot the Allies
intend to drive at this stage Of
the war.
1t certainly is not in Allied stra-
teglc books to immobilize any
more troops than absolutely nee.
essary in occupation of Italy. The
Mediterranean campaign was in
augurated and brilliantly carried
through for single purpose, to
secure closer-up bases from which
to strike at Germany. They have
been secured. They also afford
junp-off positions to strike across
the Adriatic at the Balkans or up
the Tyrrhenean from Corsica at
southern Fance.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
City And County Get
Deed To Lot For USO

The deed for the 81 by 165-fOOt
lot adjoining the USO club at
Second and Orange streets, OH
which the government proposes
to erect $4,000 addition to
the club. was officially deliver
ed to the city and county gov
ernments Wednesday.
The purchase price of the lot
was $3.50.
Wednesdays action followed
approval of the joint purchase
of the lot by both the city coun-
Gil and the county board of
commissioners Monday.
Final approval of the prof.
ect has vet to come from Wash
ington but plans called for a
two-story extension to the pres
ent TSO structure which was
completed early in 1912.
The extension will provide
additional dormitory and lavor-
atory facilities, double the size
of the present main lounge,
and provide small lounges and
offices
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
YUC0SLAV ARMY
BATTLES NAILS
ON WIDE FRONT

LONDON, Sept. 29.-LR- The
Yugoslav army of liberation bat
tied crack German troops over q
wide front today, including the
Italian city of Trieste, where its
troops told of killing "a large
number of Nazi soldiers
The Yugoslav patriots continue
successful operations in Montene-
gro, Herzegovina and the province
of Sandzak, said a Yugoslav army
communique released through the
Yugoslav government-in-exile to.
night, but was forced to evacuate
the Adriatic port of Split Ito avoid
encirclement.'
The reoccupation OF Split was
announced by the Germans yes.
terday.
The Yugoslav army attacked and
routed a strong German column
in northern Dalmatia and killed &c
of the Nazis, the communique said,
while So more were killed in Bosnia
when two freight trains and ar
armored train were derailed. An.
other score of Germans was killed
in Montenegro in clash neal
Klasin.
The German radio, in a broad
cast recorded by the Associated
Press, told of German SIS troops
being supported by the regular
army in Dalmatia-an apparent
confirmation that the operations Of
Yugoslav patriots had compelled
Hitler to send top grade troops
into the area. This broadcast said
the Italian city of Gorilla, 80 miles
northwest of Trieste, as well as
Split, were recaptured by the Ger.
mans in full-scale battles of encir.
clement.
The Germans obviously were be-
ing kept on the alert in this entire
area, both in northern Italy and
Yugoslavia. Swiss dispatches said
the German controlled press in
northern Italy had published or,
ders directing all members of the
Italian air force, including those
demobilized, to report for service
with the German air force.
Bern dispatches said tonight that
in the confused period after the
Italian armistice, tn Germans
were able to gain control of most
northern Italian cities by using
loud speakers to trick the people
into believing that great N z j
forces were arriving.
A Budapest dispatch to the Swiss
Gazette de Lausanne said t h a
Hungary. now playing an increas-
ingly isolated role in the Balkans,
had refused to recognize Benito
Mussolini's Fascist Republican,
government in Italy.
However, a DNB dispatch broad
cast tonight by the Berlin radio
asserted the Budapest government
had extended such recognition O.
tday.
From France came fresh evil
dence today of increasing violence
against Chief of Government Pi-
ere Laval and his Nazi masters,
with desperate collaborationists
urging still harsher repressive
measures against patriots seeming
early freedom and trying to pre-
pare the way TO rtheir iberators.
Among the French there is a
story current now that Laval re-
Gently began trying to get himself
put in Jail by the Germans in or
der to acquire some kind of mar
tyrdom, but that the Germans re-
fused.
This description of conditions in
rural France, where the peasant
strength is stirring, was S n
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
Germans In Full Flight
Across Plain Near CITY
Castelammare and Entire Sorrento Peninsula In Allied Hands,
Fall Of Italian Metropolis Expected Momenarily;
British File In Gulf

HEADQUARTERS
Fifth tonight to within expected
the terord city full flight
nua thanking the o in
Naples by tomoro
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30
ussians Nearing Cd Polish And Run1anian Borders
Rudnya, Kremenchug
Torn From NaZi Grin
Red Army Within ITO Miles Of Boundaries.
10 Miles From White Russia; l2O Towns
And Hamlets Engulfed

LONDON, Sept 20 -QF9- The Red army rolled to
within ITO miles OF both the old Polish border in the north
and the Rumanian frontier in the south TODAY in widev
separated blows which captured Rudnya midway between
Smensk and Vtebsk and Kremenchug on the east bank
o the Dneper river between Kev and Dnepropetrovsk
The victories announced in two orders of the day
M Premier Marshal Joseph Staln resulted in the capture
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hi important towns 41O miles
|spart in independent drives.
Rudnya, 40 miles from vi
1tebsk. marked a similar ad-
1yance from Smolensk along
lthe important rail line that
Heads to Riga. 1t is only ten
! niles from the northern Dor
fder of White Russia, and fell
| in Red army drive that en-
gulfed 100 towns and hamlets.
Stain called it a power
full enemy stronghold and a
center of communications in
| thp 77i+ohS15 direction"
3 Soviet Divisions Advance
The advance was made by three
Soviet divisions on h Kalinin
front
Kremenchug was seized after a
great three-day battle by eight So
Wet divisions literally supported
by planes. Stain said. The capture
wiped out one of the last German
bridgeheads on the east bank of
the mighty Dnieper and cut off
large number of Germans pocket
ed between the river and Poltava.
Stalin,l whose two orders were
broadcast by Moscow radio and
recorded by the Soviet monitor.
ordered the eight divisions to in
corporate the name Kremenchug
in their titles and called for the
Moscow victory salute Of u sal
woes from 124 guns to announce
the capture.
Kremenchug is a rail junction
100 miles east of Kiev. SO miles
northwest of Dnepropetrovsk. II is
a the east end of the only Dnieper
bridge in the area. It's capture
opened vistas Of outflanking the
whole lower Dnieper line if the
Russians can cross the river in
force.
There were indications that the
Reds had made crossings al least
with advanced units. for the Ger
man high command communicate
said New attempts on the enc
mys part to gain ground in some
places on the middle Dnieper on
the western bank failed"
Capt. Ludwig Sertorious, Berlin
radio commentator, said "a few
enemy nests remained on h e
west bank of the Dnieper north of
hlev and said that other attempts
IN the KleV sector to move major
FORCES across the Dnieper via is
!ahdS IN mid-river was unsuccess-
full.
The Soviet daily communique
said that the Germans were push
ed back to the east bank of the
river before Kiev after fierce fight
ing which smashed enemy resist
ance at the bridgehead fortifica-
IONS IN the area of Darnitsa.''
Darnltsa and six enemy centers
Of resistance on the east bank of
me river before the Ukraine capt.
tal were captured.
Inc Russian advances did not
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WEATHER

FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA: Continued mild
today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-30

eastern Standard Time)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:3O p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 a. M, e.; 80 a. m, 81; l: 80
p. m. 79; 1880 p. M, 49, Maximum 81;
Minimum 81; Mean 68; Normal 10.
Humidity
1870 a. M, IS; 7:ao a. NJ, So; 1870
p. M, 33; 1880 p. m, 81
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 80
p. n1 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
600 inches.
Tides For Today
High Low
Wilmington .------------ 10:23A 5.12A
10 :35P 5:30P
Masonboro Inlet -------- 3:01A / :53A
8:O9P 2:17P
Moore's Inlet ----- 8:06A 1:58P
SLAP 2:22P
New Topsail Inlet ---- 8:11A 2 03A
(Elmore's) ------- 8:19P 2:27P
(All times Eastern Standard)
Sunrise, 6:O6 a. M; Sunset, 5:58 p. M;
Moonrise, I :02 a.; Moonset, 700 p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville
on Wednesday at a. M, $50 feet.
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Evening star., 1943-04-16
War Bonds
Continued From First Page

of $23,6o1 900. Other reports were:
South Carolina. 1886 900: Mary
land, s19,273, 900; Virginia. $11.852,-
900, and West Virginia, s4.543,000.
Winslow B. van Devanter, vice
chairman of the District War
Finance Committee. attributed the
large response in bond purchases
during the first three days mainly
to large purchases by big organiza-
tionS.
He said the District still has a
long way to go to fulfill its quota.
particularly among the smaller in
vestorS. I'VE are now in the heat
of the battle" he added. land, like
the soldiers, we must pass the am
munition little faster in the form
OF bond buying"
Beginning yesterday. the commit
d tee revealed. the Globe Distributing
Co., wholesale liquor firm at Ninth
and Rhode Island avenue NV, its
entire executive. ONCE and sales stan
of As persons. started devoting its
e entire time to selling bonds until
May /.
Sales late yesterday were reported
to have reached 5000 Although
the company has set a goal Of
100000. they expect to make sales
far beyond the figure.
Late Bank Hours to Aid.
Banks in the District, which were
open late yesterday for the 18th Of
the month payday, were expected to
make encouraging reports on the
sale Of bonds. to small buyers. The
bansS viii extend their normal
banking hours again for Govern
n1ent psydays on April 23 and 80.
Meanwhile the War Finance Com
Evening star., 1943-04-16

mittee continued to receive reports
on War bond activities from various
| organizations
Richard A. Norris, executive vice
president and cashier OF the Lin
coin National Bank announced that
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea have purchased $500, 900 worth
of Government securities through
his bank
Manuel J. Davis. president Of the
Progress Club, reported that his
club has sold $22, 900 worth of bonds.
Seton Darr. chairman of the COM
mlttee's speakers bureau, will ad-
dress BPOE Lodge No. Is Wednes-
day night at a War bond rally to
be held at the Eks' Home, 9l9
II street NV.
Representatives of 66 women's or
CARNATIONS of the District met yes
terday at the YWCA to map plans
for selling S4.000.000, 900 worth of
War bonds in the national wom-
ems "Outfitting the Outfit" drive.
! Maj. Ruth Cheney Streeter. head Of
the Marine Corps Women's Auxil-
iary, was the principal speaker.
She was introduced by Mrs. How
ard G. Nichols. vice chairman of
the District women's division, who
presided. - -
Five thousand women will be
modified here to sell bonds And
1t is estimated that their quota,
when reached, would provide uni
forms for 26,90O men. Mrs. John
Jay OConnor is chairman OF the
District War Finance Committees
women's division.
At press conference yesterday,
Miss Harriet Elliott, associate field
director of the women's section of
the Treasury's war savings stan,
disclosed that women In AZ States
and the District are selling War
bonds in the highly personalized"
campaign known as Quitting the
Outfit" She said women in the
other remaining State, Washington,
are buying Flying Fortresses, mine
sweepers, pontQpn bridges, para
chutes and surgical beds.
BY giving the women tangible
goals, such as uniforms and other
equipment. Miss Elliott said. their
role in the drive is already showing
gratifying results.
She pointed out that women all
over the country are taking special
training courses before going out as
canvassers. This plan, she explained,
was started by business and pro-
fessional women of Jackson. Miss,
and adopted for the Nation.