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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29

north coast and drove eastward
toward the Messina escape route.
Coupled with the cracking of the
Nazi center under American-Ca-
madam hammering, that shook the
enemy out of the Mount Etna
stronghold. There is reason to
doubt that the Fifth Army pres
sure on the Naples front in the
west, dominated by Nazi held We
suvius, is an actual effort to take
Naples by storm. With the Ma
pies position already outflanked
by British capture of Foggia, it
seems obvious that it must soon
fall. General Clark's mission prob
ably is to make every effort to
impede Nazi escape from the trap
while Montgomery closes in from
the northeast.
1p any case, Allied tactics bid
fair to force upon the German
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29
Treasury May Request
Eight Billions In New
Taxes For The Nation

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.-
pa high source said today
the Treasury would propose
to Congress, probably next
week, that $4,000, 100000 be
raised in additional taxes,
bringing the annual rate of
revenue collections to $46,-
100000, 900.
1t was understood on Capt.
toll Hill the Treasury program,
already submitted to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, embraces the
principle of postwar refunds
similar to the British and Ca
madam systems.
Members of Congress who
have been told of the Treas
ury's new revenue ideas were
pledged to secrecy on details,
pending formal presenta-
ton to the House Ways and
Means committee, but there
already were signs Of oppo-
sition. One member told his
colleagues, its going to jar
your back teeth out when you
see it."
There were indications the
program would propose in
creases in individual and cor
porate income rates, and hikes
in excise taxes.
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Ion WeWak'S alrdrOmeS and down.
ed IA others in air battles.
The new raid ON Wewak also
resulted in the sinking of %
barges.
The total plane bag raised to
more than 400 the number of enc
my aircraft destroyed in the We
wax sector since mid-August.
In the tense ground battle for
Finschhafen on New Guinea's Huon
peninsula, Australian We e r n
troops have inflicted heavy cas-
ualties just north of the town be-
tween the base and the Bumi river.
In that area, where the Aussies
are within less than a mile of their
objective, progress has been slow
ed up by prepared enemy positions
twenty-five Japanese p n e
raided northwestern Australia, the
communique said, striking at Drys
dale mission.
A strong force of both heavy
and medium bombers, escorted by
fighters, attacked the Wewak sec
tor at treetop and mast height
levels. The ships were convoy
which just had arrived in the har'
Dor.
The merchantmen sunk ranged
in tonnage up to 5,000-ton vessels.
The aircraft destruction was
wrought on the fields of WeWak
Boram, Dagua and But.
The raiders caught the enemy
by surprise, as has been the case
on several other recent raids anc
the bulk of the planes were or
the ground.
Three Allied bombers were
downed by anti-aircraft fire. 9th
ers were damaged.
1.-THE enemy efforts to re-estab
lish his operational air bases il
northeast New Guinea appear te
have been again effectively coun
tered
After more than 300 planes were
destroyed in the Wewak sector
most of them caught on the GROUND
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.LEND~LEASE HELP
HITS new RECORD
$1,261,OOO,OOO Allotted
Under Act During
Month OF August

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s.-tR-
President Roosevelt announced
today that Lend-Lease aid to the
Allies reached new peak in Au-
gust - S1.261, 900, 900, as compared
with S1,O50, 100000 in July. Total
aid since the Lend-Lease program
began August 81 1871, was placed
at SIS, 235, 100000, including $13,-
DIG, 100000 in goods transferred
and $2,219, 00O,0 900 in services rem
dered.
Munitions transferred during Au-
gust for use against Germany and
Japan amounted to 1912, 100000 as
against S782, 100000 in July; indus
trial items $152,000,0O0 against
$158, 0OO,O 900 and foodstuffs $50, OOO,-
900 against $132, 100000
1.-THE expansion of munitions pro-
duction by American industry, -
said the president statement,
'has been so great that we have
been able to increase our aid to
the forces of the other United Ma
lions while we have been arning
our rapidly growing Army a d
Navy"
The announcement said there
has been a particularly sharp in
crease in recent months in trans
fers of aircraft and parts" adding:
american planes are b e n g
flown in increasing numbers by
Russian pilots on the eastern front
and by British and other United
Nations pilots in several theaters
of war. The steadily growing
strength of our own air force and
of the air forces of our Allies,
which are pounding away at Ger
many and the occupied countries
night and day, is continuous evl.
dence of Hitler's inability to put
roof on fortress Europe"
In addition to aircraft, the Unit
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29
Senate Challenged Ia
Drive Slackers From
Federal Jobs

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.- R-
Senator Wheeler D.-Mont0 chal-
lenged the Senate today to drive
draft dodgers and slackers' from
their hiding places in government
and industry by blocking the in
duction of pre-Pearl Harbor IA
theirs. scheduled to start Friday.
Unless stopped, he declared. the
bureaucrats' in control of the gov
eminent. will drive American
children into the streets while sin
gle men - mind you - remain at
their desks in unessential jobs.
As the Senate went through the
first day of debate on Wheeler S
bill expected to continue at least
through tomorrow, Senator Byrd
CD.-VaD announced that the joint
committee on reduction of non-es-
sential federal expenditures would
launch an investigation within the
next few days looking to reduc-
ton of the government payroll by
100000 employees.
While Byrd said he would OPP
pose any legislation interfering
with draft plans of the military
leaders. he declared the time,
however, is long overdue for
thorough investigation and over
hauling of government personnel. .
He said Paul V. McNutt, chair
man of the War ManpoWer Com
mission, had not responded to his
September 10 request for action,
when the government lis the chief
hoarder of manpoWer.
Every single agency of the fed
eral government is overmanned,
he asserted.
Galleries were so crowded that
scores stood while Wheeler car
ried on what appeared to be a NJ
tile fight for passage Of his Dill
to postpone father induction until
January l.
Pointing dramatically to the
spectators, including "a children
from District of Columbia school,
Wheeler shouted:
There are lot Of babies up
in the gallery. Take their fathers
away from them--send their moth
ers off to work-and see what hap
pens to the American home!
What are we fighting for?''
Administration spokesman relt-
Grated their confidence they would
have sufficient votes to recommlt
the measure to the Military COM
mittee. Only the decision as to
when to administer the death
blow" remained to be made.
Let these bureaucrats be call
ed upon to bring about better
utilization of the manpoWer we
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San Severe to reach the Adriatic
coast above the Monte Gargano
spur. Just which direction Mont
gomery's veterans follow from the
Foggia road and rail hub should
give a clearer glimpse Of Allied
battle strategy in Italy.
British and American forces on
the Italian mainland appear to
have exchanged the roles t h e v
played in the swift Allied cleanup
of Sicily. In that fight, which show
ed the Nazi command was both
outguessed and outfought, the bat
tle-hardened British Eighth Army
gripped the Mount Etna flank, ex-
erting intensive pressure that pin
ned German armor in place, but
was short of a full-scale frontal Of
fensive. Meanwhile, Patton's
American Seventh Army overran
all western Sicily, reached t h e
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29
Wheeler Flags Draft Dodgers
Rail Unions Censure Wage Raise
About One-Tenth OF Paw
Demand Awarded;
Termed Insult

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. - R-
Spokesman for train and engine
operating railroad workers called
an award of just over one-tenth
of their wage demands "unsatis-
factory and an insult today,
and there were broad indications
of a new labor crisis on the car
riers. u =
An emergency board appointed
by President Roosevelt recon-
mended an increase of 4 cents an
hour, amounting to 80 cents a day
in basic wages. The men had de-
manded 30 per cent or 50, which
ever was highest in the case of
each individual.
Thomas C. Cashen, president of
the Switchmen's Union of North
America independently, sal d in
Buffalo that the award lis an in
suit and added: 1T is my opinion
the employees will not accept the
recommendation
Harry Fraser, president of the
Order of Railway Conductors, said
at the unions headquarters in &C.
dar Rapids, Iowa, that the pro-
posal ''is not in any sense of the
word satisfactory.
He protested the boards action
in limiting itself to the Is per cent
total increase since January, 1941
allowed by the Little Steel" for
mula, which he said was "com-
pletely out of harmony with chang
es in the cost of living" He said
the award ignored increased haz-
ards, greater productivity, and in
equities which ht said resulted
from workers in comparable in
dustries having received increases
which place their wages out of
line with the rail rate
This is the second major railway
wage controversy. The demands of
the 10000 non operating en-
ployes are still unsettled. An emer-
gency board recommended a boost
of eight cents an hour for them
last May. Sterilization Director
Fred M. Vinson set it aside in
June and proposed instead a grad
uated scale of increases.
The Incorporating unions OPP
posed the Vinson veto, signed con-
tracts with the railroads for the
eight cents and appealed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt to approve them.
The eight cent hourly increase
would cost about 1904, 100000 a
year.
The proposed 32-cent basic daily
increase for the operating group
engineers, firemen, conductors,
trainmen and switchmen - would
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By KIRKE L. SIMPSON

A grisly, potential trap appar-
emily is being baited for the major
Nazi forces holding the right flank
oi the Naples-Foggia line in Italy.
Allied efforts appear to be aimed
not to force the enemy out of the
Naples sector but to pin him there
while British forces to the north
east crunch forward from captured
Foggia to take him in flank and
rear for humiliation in the field.
A Nazi retreat to avoid such a
trap is reported. The British ar
mored column that swept blitz-
krieg fashion into Foggia, however,
is in a position to strike either
down the Foggia-Naples highway,
almost westward up tn Rome
road via Lucera to get in the rear
of Germans falling back from the
Naples front, or northward through
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29
HOME MADE PLANS
NEEDED FOR CITY
Housing Authority Head
Tells Rotary Of Post
War Problem

Wilmington's course in the post
war world will be largely defined
by national and international pol
icy. but the fact should not fore
stall attempts at planning on a
home made basis,' Henry R.
Emory, executive director of the
Housing Authority of the City OF
Wilmington, told the Rotary club
Tuesday.
1--WE in Wilmington can decide
as well as anyone else what kind
of community this ought to be.
Having decided, we ought to insist
that our plans be followed. The
courage with which we tackle the
problem need not be less than the
courage of other men elsewhere,
and the information available tc
us is not less than others possess.
The use of the trial-and-error sys'
tenn is the only alternative to the
folly of swallowing whole the con-
coctions of some doctrinaire.
Certainly, we shall make some
mistakes. Buff if we proceed sin,
cerely and with tolerance and res
olution, we shall do lot of good,
too. The local government system
as practiced in America holds too
many things that are important to
us. for us to permit it to be viii
ated," Mr.. Emory declared.
General aims for the community,
Mr.. Emory described as full en-
ployment of our population; a
soundly developed community in
the physical sense-with reference
to planning, zoning, housing; and
courage and civic-mindedness to
avail ourselves of our many new
and war-born facilities.
He cited the need for consider
alton of Wilmington's relationship
to happenings elsewhere In tn e
postwar era: 1--WE cannot, for eX-
ample, make cargo ships if the
world trade channels are already
glutted with such vessels. We can
not expect continuance of the near
by military establishments if the
creation of a true parliament OF
man makes large standing armies
unnecessary. And, perhaps OF
greatest direct Importance to us,
we cannot shape up the even more
intimate details of our community
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Red Moose Tightening On Kiev;
British Capture Foggia Airfields;
Hanover Smashed Again ByRAF
En1den And Brunswick
Giuen Hard Pounding

LONDON, Sept. 28.-(R-
Mixing its punches with the
skill and power of champion
boxer, the RATS great bomb
er fleet smashed the big Ger
man industrial center of Han
mover last night for the Sec
ond time within a week, quick
ly followed up yesterdays Fly
ing Fortress raid on the
North Sea port of Emden, and
pounded the metal and ma
chinery center of Brunswick.
The Air Ministry said that
the three attacks we're made
in every great strength" and
that 80 of the big bombers were
lost. Returning crewmen re-
ported tremendous flames were
eating through Hanover,
which bore the brunt of the
assault.
The nights operations car
ried a number of significant
indications of the greatly ex-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29
MARSHALL RUM0RS
CAUSE new WORRY
White House And War De.
partment Concerned
Over Reports

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s.-R-
The White House and the War De-
partment manifest deep concern
today over political implications
read into reports that Genera
George C. Marshall is to get a
new command.
From neither was there a de-
NAL that Marshall, the Army CHIEF
of staff, is to be made glooal
commander of American and Brit
ish forces in the field. On that
point. President Roosevelt told a
news conference that he could say
nothing about Marshalfs status
now or until the time was ripe.
But the displeasure over some
of the reports having to do with
the asserted motives for change
was made plain.
/, Mr.. Roosevelt read to his con-
ference, and in effect endorsed
an editorial in the New York Her
aid Tribune which spoke OF the
mixture of unauthenticated news,
runor. guesswork and innuendo,
revolving about Marshall as bril-
liant example of chow to obstruc'
the conduct of the war.
2. Members of the House Mill
tarv committee, addressing tn e
House, quoted Marshall as appeal
ing for an end to talk about pohtl-
cal interference with the h g h
command which he told them, they
added, is not true and is doing
great harm to the war effort.
The House talks followed early
morning conversations by mem
bers of the military committee
with Marshall and with Secretary
of War Stimson. Apparently they
grew from last weeks assertion
by Rep. Shafer (R-Mich) that the
War department was threatened
with conversion into new deal
political WPA."
Committee members told the
House General Marshall assured
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Grisly Trap Appar emily Baited For Nazis

command in Italy the very thing
it most wishes to avoid, length
ening of it's defense lines which
would force withdrawal of addi-
tional reserves from RuSsia just
as the possible crucial battle of
the war there along the Dnieper
is being joined What happens in
Italy within the next few days
could as powerfully influence war
developments in Russia as could
a sudden Allied invasion across
the English channel.
What Prime Minister Churchill
has called the Italian or Mediter-
ranean third 'front.'" reserving
the second-front designation o r
the cross channel jump when it
comes, has already accomplished
something that second-front could
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banded scope of the Britain
based air campaign against
the Germans. Again the Raj
switched its main objective
hundreds of miles, keeping the
Nazis scrambling to concen-
trate their thinly-spread defen-
sive forces where they are
most needed.
All month the British bonn
bers have been alternating in
jabs at Germany's claw"
around Berlin and the north,
and her "solar plexus", the
Rhineland industrial area 800
miles to the southwest, with
occasional punches at her
''heart" around Munich, 800
miles south of the capital.
Last nights was the RATS
second three-ply blow within
five days. Last Thursday night
it bombed the twin cities of
Mannheim Ludwigshafen and
Darmstadt and Aachen. Such
(Cnntinuad nm Pape Two. Col
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29
CLARK ADVANCING
Fifth Army Drives Deeper
Into Nazi Defenses
Near Naples
BALKANS IMPERILED
Hitler's Satellites In Range
OF Allied Bombers
In Italy
ALLIED HEADQUAR-

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Sept. 28.-(P-The great
Italian air base of Foggla
and it's Is largely undamag-
ed fields we're captured Mon
day in a swift 25-mile Brit
ish armored lunge which in
creased the peril to German
defenses of Naples, through
which the American Fifth
Army advanced two to tive
miles.
Tonight, Hitler's Balkan
satellites lay at the mercy OF
Allied air fleets which can
strike from Foggia at Mu-
mich, the heart of Naziism
at Vienna, a key German air
craft center; and at the CAPT.
tails of Hungary, Rumanla
and Bulgaria. Conquered
Greece, Yugoslavia and Al
bania also came under the
shadow of Allied air power, as
we'll as all northern and cen
trail Italy and southeast Ger
many.
Britons Move Forward
Britons of the Fifth Army on
the extreme left advanced tW c
miles in bitter hand-to-hand fight
ing in mountains northwest of Sa-
lerno and tonight they could look
down on the rail and road junction
OF Nocera, southeast of Vesuvlus
and 10 airline miles from Naples.
The capture of Nocera would take
the Allies to the edge of the Naples
plains leading to the demolished
port of 5000.
Americans inland on the right
flank of Naples advanced two tc
five miles and captured Lioni ano
Castelnuovo. Lioni is As m /
east of Naples on : h e railway
crossing Italy to Bari. Castel-
nuovo is 81 miles east Of Naples.
The historic city of Melfi, birth
place of Horace, rs miles east oil
Naples, also fell. 1t is "a miles
south of Foggia on an inland rail
way leading up from Potenza con
Meeting with the Bari-Naples line,
The Germans on Corsica were
retreating to San Steiano hill anc
evacuated Aleria, 40 miles south
of Bastia, a French communlque
said. Mines and demolitions slow.
ed the mopup, but the French de-
clared they were inflicting severe
losses and capturing prisoners.
(The Algiers radio saio Flying
Fortresses destroyed 100 truckloads
of Germans hemmed in at Bastia
and that Nazis fleeing in small
boats were brought under fire OF
AIueu batteries.
Foggia was a prize of equal Oh
even greater Importance than Ma
pies because OF its alrflelds.
The swift advance OF the mobile
British column prevented the enc
my from destroying or damaging
the airfields, which, however, have
been battered frequently by Allied
bombers. The airfields will need
little work to become suitable for
Flying Fortresses, Liberators and
Marauders.
1T is obvious that the Allied
advance in the east has made per-
ilous the German position in the
Naples area" an Allied spokes-
man said, pointing out that Foggia
lies 80 miles northeast of Naples.
THE Eighth Army advance was
Domo fol Ky
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-29
MacArthur'S BOmberS
Sink 7 Japanese Ships

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC, Wednesday, Sept. 29.-QP-Alied bombers
have sunk Japanese ships at Wedak, New Guinea
today's headquarters conmunique reported
The ships three tankers and four merchantmen.
Wewak, 1926 miles northwest of Lac, is both an enemy
shipping and base The air raiders destroyed so planes
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Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
100 am, 81; 1880 am, 81; 80 p.m.'
70: 80 pm. H.
Maximum, 10; minimum, SO; mean,
Is; normal, 70.
Humidity
80 am, 4s; 1880 am, 80; 1870 pm.'
Il; 7:3O pm. 10.
TIDES FOR TODAY
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Slightly warm
q TO-DAY.
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Trades Unionists
Welcomed Russians
British Congress Opens
CulmlY-School Reform
Pressed

London.-The restless mood of an
important segment of the British pub
lie will find expression this week at
the seyenty-tifth meeting of the Trades
Union Congress at Southport, Ian
cashire. At the opening session 500
delegates, representing 602, 400 work
ers, gave a warm welcome to ten
trades unioniStS from Russia whose
presence marked the first Soviet par
ticipation in number of years.
Other observers from Sweden, Poland.
CzechoSlovakia and the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor will attend the con-
ference
The quiet start for the proceedings
was not interpreted as meaning that
the delegates will remain subdued for
long. Although the Trades Union Con-
gress actually is one of the most con
servative groups in this country by
virtue Of its desire to protect the gains
acquired over the years, its members
are known to have lot on their minds
this week and the extent to which they
can affect the policy of the congress
will be the measure of the current
meeting
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ton would be filled Immediately.
Sometimes we are fortunate in get
ting competent tradeSmen from the
have adjusted themselves to Califor-
mia conditions, including perpetual
sunshine. However, frequently the
eastern potter migrating to California
fails to adjust himself to the changed
environment, contracts Il severe case
of homesickness and excuses himself
by way of "French leave" and is on
his way to the hills and llilns back
in the eastern jurisdiction.
At the moment we are looking for
ward to the division of Local Union
No. 113 which was authorized at a re-
cent meeting of the Executive Board
upon application of our members en-
ployed at The Wallace China Co. We
think this is Il move in the right drec-
ton, it will at least tend to expedite
the business functions of each group.
Required time for business sessions of
each local will be shortened consider
ably and each group will be privileged
to apply themselves to their respective
problems which we think will result
in the solving of problems in Il shorter
space of time and with Il higher de-
gree of efficiency.
The writer is of the opinion the
establishment of the two separate local
unions is of sufficient Importance and
note TO call for Il celebra-
tion wherein we can extend our good
wishes to each other and pledge the
full support of each local union to our
common cause. the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters.-O.C. 113.