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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
PACKAGES TO PRISONERS

Packages for prisoners of
war In the Far East which are
scheduled for shipment on the
Grlpsholm, must reach New
aork by midnight, August ~.
wlimlngtonians Interested, who
nave received lables from the
oiiice Of Provost Marshal Cen
erai authorizing mailing of
parcels, SHOULD take cognizance
of the nevf deadline,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
Chicago White Sox Get
Free Run To Drop AS

CHICAGO, Aug. %. Up Re-
lief Pitcher Russ Christopher of
the Philadelphia Athletics walked
Gorden Maltzberger, Chicago
White Sox hur1er, with the bases
filled and two out in the ninth
tonight to give Chicago a 7 to 6
victory in the twilight game of
an evening doubleheader.
It was the 18th straight defeat
for the AS.
First Game
= H E
Philadelphia 100 120 0O2-6 II 3
Chicago .--- DOL 300 003-7 Z l
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
AMERICAN LEAGUE

YESTERDAYS RESULT
American League
New York 4; Detroit l. (Second
game postponed
Washington 10-1; st. Louis So.
Chicago TT; Philadelphia 60.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24

National League
st. Louis IA; Boston 5.
(Only game scheduled).
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
PAYROLLERS:
100000 Cut Urged

Charging that the government
payroll has more than tripled since
the First World war and that the
government could get along with
100000 fewer employees, joint con-
gressional committee on reduction
of nonessential federal expenditures
recommended that the Civil Service
commission act to eliminate unnec-
essary personnel.
''Wasteful personnel practices" a
committee report said, should be
prevented by complete reorganiza-
ton of personnel servicing and man.
agement functioning.
The beneficial effects of merit
system during the past two years.
the committee charged. have been
impaired and federal funds have
been wasted through the negligent
attitude of personnel officers and op-
Grafton officials"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
OIL PACT:
Macy Cancels Deal

The tempest over the navy depart
ment's contract with the Standard
Oil Company of California for OPP
Grafton of the Elk Hills naval oil re-
serve subsidized when Secretary
Frank Knox announced cancellation
Of the agreement.
The decision to cancel followed a
legal ruling by the department of
justice that the proposed arrange
ment exceeded the authority grant
ed by law, a navy announcement
said. Norman H. Littell, assistant
attorney general, testifying before
the house public lands committee,
said that a department report sent
to the White House had concluded
that the navy's agreement with the
oil company was illegal and in
valid"
Colonel Knox declared that his
own investigation of the agreement
established that mo improprieties
had been employed by either party
to the negotiations.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
TAXES:
so Billion Coal

Secretary Henry Morgenthau dis
closed that the treasury would trim
it's request to congress for more
new taxes down to $4,000, 900, 900 in
stead of the SIG, 1000, 900, 900 originally
planned. Nevertheless, this would
be enough to raise the public's over
all tax bill during the 1914 fiscal
year to $4,000, 900, 900.
Declaring that the Treasury's goal
was to pay half the annual war costs
"as we CO." Mr.. Morgenthau esti-
mated that this goal is $4,000, 600, 600
less than President Roosevelt's jan
uary budget objective.
Treasury recommendations for
raising the additional revenues were
already slated for submission to
congress before its proposed sum-
mer recess.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
BUREAUCRATS:
Congress Compliments

The much-criticized home front
government bureaus were given a
friendly pat on the back and virtu-
al clean bill of health when the house
appropriations committee approved
appropriations of So, 939, AL ,504 for ID
civilian war agencies, including the
Office of Price Administration and
the Office of War Information.
In making public its highly COM
plimentary report on the work of
these agencies, the committee ad-
mitted that mistakes had been made
and will be made, but denounced
those who criticize without knowl-
edge Of the tremendous burdens
thrown on agency heads and of the
great strides made in putting the
United States on war footing"
''The type of criticism that serves
only to create public distrust in the
agencies is not helpful to the war
effort" the committees report said.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
TOTO:
Dual Warning

In his dual roles of premier and
war minister, hard-bitten Hidekei
TOTO frankly told the japanese PEG.
pie that all signs pointed toward an
about Allied offensive in the Pacific
where, he admitted, the Japs had
been forced back to defensive posi-
tons.
In an address to the Japanese diet
as premier, TOTO warned that the
war situation was increasingly
tense" and that the United States
and Britain were displaying signs of
a new offensive.
Later, speaking as war minister,
TOTO acknowledged the loss of Attu
island, but asserted that Nippon had
established an unbreakable line
from the Aleutians to the South sea
islands.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
MEDITERRANEAN:
Balkan Ponder Keg !?

The summary closing and opening
Of the Turko-Syrian frontier within
a 48-hour span by the Allied COM
mand had presaged new and impor-
tant military moves, as the Med1-
terranean area from Italy to the
Balkans had tensed for oncoming &C.
ton.
Increasing evidence that the Axis
much-vaunted Balkans bastion might
be a powder key instead came in
the form of reports from Ankara that
Rumania had sounded out the Al
lies on armistice terms. From An
kara, too, came steadily mounting
proof of Turkeys closer friendship
with the United Nations. The ap-
pointment of Brig. Gen. Richard G.
Tindell as American military at
tache in Ankara and the dispatch OF
a contingent of Turkish fiiers to
America for special training were
significant steps in this direction.
Reports from Axis sources had re-
Hected increasing official baff1ement
over the Allies next moves. After
telling its listeners of ''many land
ing craft concentrating from African
coasts toward Pantelleria and the
massing of a million troops for an
Italian INVASION" the Rome radio
had broadcast report that large
British forces were concentrating
along the southern frontier of Tur-
key"
Observers for months had known
that large numbers of Allied troops
had been training in Syria. Lying
In the eastern corner of the Mediter-
ranean, Syria offered an effective
base for operations against Crete,
the Italian-held Dodecanese islands,
Greece proper or other Axis points
in the Balkans.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01

ing up reinforcements in an effort
to forestall the possibility of Rus
sian fanking movements against
Orel, strategic Nazi-held base mid
way between Moscow and Kharkov.
Heaviest fighting was reported in the
vicinity of Mtsensk, 80 miles north
east of Orel.
Russian air forces continued their
efforts to disrupt Nazi supply con-
centrations by striking at four rail-
road functions over which German
supplies and reinforcements must
move for the Bryansk- Orel-Sm olensk
area. The functions were Roslavl,
Unecha, Vladislavoka and Novo-
zybkhov.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
BOOTLECCINC:
Wages This Time

Wage bootlegging'' by employers
was charged by William H. Davis,
chairman of the War Labor board,
who declared that many Industrial
lists are evading President Roose-
velt's order prohibiting wage in
creases over September IS levels ex-
cept with WLB approval.
MANY an employer is bidding for
labor in a short market" Davis de-
clared in testimony before con-
gressional committee urging en-
forcement measures, land wants to
make increases which are not con-
sistent with the national policy. And
he is under a great temptation to
say: to hell with the law and the
WLB and the government, have
got to run my business and I'm go.
ing to pay these fellows some ex-
ira wages
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
WAR GOODS:
Allies Double Axis

How United Nations war produc-
ton is forging fast ahead of the Axis
was told by WPB Chairman Donald
Nelson.
The United Nations, he informed
a house appropriations committee,
are now producing 1925, 1000, 900, 900
worth of arms and war supplies
year-almost double the Axis rate of
SOS, 900, 600, 1000. He said that Amer
lean military production will reach
a peak rate of $4,000, O00,0 900 a year
in 1914, with like amount of nom
war goods. He added that this
level will be held until the Axis is
crushed.
Coupled with other Allied produc-
ton, Chairman Nelson said, that
ought to be sufficient to swamp the
Axis"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
Weekly News Analyss
Allies ao Balkan Moves Factor Battling Axis Invasion Plan

softening-up forays against Axis
positions from western Europe to the
Eastern Mediterranean.
In single six-day offensive, Brit
ish and American bombers ham,
mered destruction on nine different
major German cities. These includ-
ed Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munster,
Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen,
Bochum, Kiel and Oberhausen.
Heaviest assault was reserved for
Cologne, industrial capital of the
Rhineland and the third largest city
in the Reich.
In the Mediterranean, American
and British bomber fleets swarmed
over Sicily, attacking five major
Italian air bases and maintaining a
day-and-night marathon of disaster
to the Axis. The Allied fiers at
lacking Sicily reported tough fighter
opposition and strong anti-aircraft
fire, contrasting sharply with the
lack of Axis opposition over Pantel-
leria.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01

have approximately doubled in the
last II months over the similar Pc
Rod the year before, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation disclosed.
AMITY: Argentina desires to
draw close to ''the great republic Of
the United States" in every way
possible, Gen. Edelmiro J. Farrell,
war minister, declared.
TOKENS: A pocketful Of tokens
instead Of a bookful of food stamps
is the latest proposal brought for
ward by the Office of Price Admin
istration. Still in the tentative state
the plan calls for tokens in several
colors and denominations designed
to fit standardized counting ma
chimes so they could be easily tailed
at the end of day.
DAMAGE: The 26.OO0-ton Ger
man battleship Gneisenau, damaged
while escaping from Brest, France.
in 1912, was so crippled that her
chances Of putting out to sea are
remote for the remainder Of the war,
the London Daily Mail reported.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
RUSS-POLES:
Postwar Assurances

Assurances of Soviet aid in re-
storing strong and independent Po-
land after the war were given by
Premier Josef Stain of Russia.
Stains promise was contained in
a message sent to the first Congress
of Polish patriots in Russia who told
him that ''We will not allow persons
who strive to drive wedge between
the Polish people and the Soviet
union to trouble the water"
Observers noted that the Polish
government-in-exile had no part in
the exchange of amenities between
the two peoples. Russia recently
broke off diplomatic relations with
General Sikorski's group in London,
because of charges by the Poles of
Russ executions Of Polish army Of
ficers and counter-charges by the
Soviets of pro-Axis espionage by the
Poles.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
PACIFIC:
73-to-7 Record

With all indications pointing
toward major sea and land engage
ments looming in the Pacific, air
activities still held the center of the
war stage in this theater.
Most dramatic of all engagements
was that fought out over the Solo
mons when American planes shot
down " Jap aircraft over Guadal-
canal while losing only six of their
own. This 13-to-1 score turned in by
American combat f1iers in the Solo
mons who have heretofore included
army, navy and marine pilots was
regarded as the best ever recorded
in a single air action anywhere.
But Allied planes were not idle
elsewhere. Liberator bombers made
their second heaviest raid of the war
on Jap-held Kendari, on Celebes is
land, $50 miles northwest of OAR
win, Australia, damaging airdromes
and. destroying planes parked on the
ground.
In China, a military spokesman
for Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
charged that the japanese again
were employing poison gas in their
operations in Suiyan province.
Meanwhile Chiang's forces claimed
new successes, including the recap
ture of strategic towns south of the
Yangtze river.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
RATIONINC:
Eight Neuv Plans

Louis ]. Kroeger, OPA rationing
official, disclosed that eight new ra-
tioning programs are being prepared
by the Office of Price Administra-
ton and may be instituted within
the next year.
Mr.. Kroeger told house appro-
priations committee that two of the
ration plans will be placed in force
Immediately, but that six others, in
Guiding coal rationing, are contin-
gent on directives from other gov
eminent agencies. The two pro-
grams definitely scheduled cover
cooking and heating stoves, and
new system of allotting foods to all
types of institutional users, includ-
ing hotels and restaurants, which
will not affect consumers directly.
Except for coal, the other prospec-
tive rationed items were not listed,
but Kroeger said they included
goods for which the government Of
ficials see a definite possibility of
shortages in the next fiscal year.
Eggs, milk and other foods have
been mentioned recently by govern
ment food experts as possible can
didates for rationing.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
CORN:
~ Loans Called

First steps in program to solve
the increasingly serious corn sup
ply situation came when the gov
eminent formally called loans on
100000 bushels of 1912 crop corn
effective July Is. The government
had previously used deliveries of
grain through liquidation of 1884
loans to restore the operations of
two closed-down processing plants.
The corn loan move was described
as "only an immediate palliative,
not the final answer to the prob
lern," and it was stated that efforts
to find solution would continue.
The governments action came as
the War Food administration and
Commodity Credit corporation re-
ceived a request from the Corn In
dustries Research foundation for eli
Their complete lifting of federal price
ceilings on grain or the imposition
of ceilings on hogs. Meanwhile j.
B. Hutson, director of the Commod-
ity Credit corporation, said that rs
million bushels of privately owned
corn in grain elevators would be
seized for plants manufacturing by
products for war uses, unless "crops
can be moved off farms"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01

SHIRTS: New York 1aundries in
dictated that the dirty shirt may
become fashionable there when they
announced they would not accept
more than shirts per family week.
BATTLE COST: The conquest OF
Pantelleria cost the United Nations
only 40 airmen, Maj. Gen. George
E. Stratemeyer, chief Of the U. S.
air staff, reported.
PAY LOAD: Britain's latest ver-
sion of the four engined Halifax
bomber carries added fire power. a
maximum load of 51s tons of bombs
and has been improved in all-around
performance, the British ministry of
aircraft production disclosed.
TRANS-OCEAN: Munitions Min
lister c. D. Howe announced that
Canadian transatlantic air service
will soon be started, carrying mail
and official passengers overseas.
PILFERING: Thefts Of United
States government property, meas
ured by convictions and recoveries
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
RUSSIA:
OreI to Forefront

A stepping-up of land activities
was reported on the Russian front,
with especially heavy fighting re-
ported in the Orel sector. Here,
Russian troops defending strategic
newly won bridgehead were report
ed to have beaten off eight German
counter-attacks.
It was reported that strong forma-
tons of Soviet planes had broken up
German formations supporting Nazi
tank and infantry units. The Ger
mans. however, were reported bring
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01
EUROPE:
Air BLitz Continues

Even as English King George V
was inspecting the Allied armed
forces in North Africa, air forces of
the United Nations were preparing
for the wars next decisive move by
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-07-01

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts. and not necessarily OF
this newspaper.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09
WATCHES STOLEN
FROM LOCAL FIRM
IS Timepieces Taken From
Thrift T. Store Along
With Other Items

The theft Of Is wrist watches and
eight pocket watches, two knife
and chain sets and five military
insignia rings from the Thrift
Store, Inc, Is South Front street
early Wednesday morning has been
reported to police by Robert Dan
nenbaum, manager of the store.
Radio Patrolman E. B. Murray
and Harry E. Fales of the New
Hanover county bureau of identifi-
cation, who investigated the case.
said the following articles were
missing: a 15-iewel Emerson wrist
watch, a 17-jewel Emerson wrist
watch, a seven-jewel Broadway
wrist watch, seven-jewel Craw-
ford wrist watch, a seven-jeWel
Manhatten wrist watch, two 15-
jewel water proof luminous dial
wrist watches, two yellow gold
knife and chain sets, five silver
military insignia rings, five 15-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09
FINAL CURBS
1S0.-Legal
SALE Of REAL ESTATE

Under and by virtue of the pow
er and authority contained IN a
certain Judgment entered in the
suit pending in the Superior Court
of New Hanover County in which
City of Wilmington, North Caro-
lima, New Hanover County, and
c. R. Morse, City-County Tax Col
lector, are Plaintiffs, and Mary
H. Jones, Sarah Jones, ct al are
Defendants. the undersigned will
offer for sale at public auction,
for cash. to the highest bidder at
twelve O. clock noon, at the Court
House door of the County of New
Hanover on Monday. August 2,
1943. the following described tract
or parcel of land lying. being and
situate in the City cf Wilmington.
County and State aforesaid, and
bounded and described as fol-
lows:
BEGINNING at the intersection
Of the Southern line of Swami
Street with the Western line OF
Fifth Street; runs thence West
Wardly along said line Of Swami
Street so feet; thence Southwark
ly and parallel with Fifth Street
1872 feet; thence EastWardly and
parallel with Swami Street 80 feet
to the Western line of Fifth Street;
and thence Northwardly along the
Western line of Fifth Street l32
feet to the Southern line of Swami
Street the Beginning, Same being
pNt of Lots l and 2 in Block 3O6
according to the official plan OF
the City of Wilmington, N. C..
This 30th day of June, 1943.
CLAYTON G. BELLAMY,
COMMISSIONER.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09
Selectiue Buying Hits
Ne1D York Stock Market

tlonlng relaxation again aided soft
drink company stocks. Mounting
box office receipts spurred the
moving picture group. Forecasts
OF climbing revenues bolstered as
sorted rails although the wage
question still was a handicap for
this division.
The Senate's backdown on its
subsidy prohibition left board
rooms more or less unperturbed.
Initiation psychology stiffened tri-
tle on the Senate boost of corn
price ceilings but when this meas
ure was killed by a House commit
tee early soaring commodities
quickly retreated.
Stocks in the new high class
included American Airlines, Penn
sylvania-Central Airlines. Sinclair
Oil, Texas & Pacific Railway.
Maracaibo Oil, Pepsi-Cola. Gener-
al Steel Castings preferred up 5 -
points on odd-lot sales). Webster
Elsenlohr and the preferreds of
American Power & Light and Allie
ghany Corp A lifted dividend in
spired jump in Grumman Air
craft. In front were Union Pacific.
Santa Fe, Western Union, Sears
Roebuck, General Motors and U
S. Steel.
On the losing end were U. S.
Rubber, Montgomery Ward. Du
Pont, Douglas Aircraft, Pan Amer
lean Airways, Kennecott and Wool
worth.
Carrier bonds tilted upward. Al
Chicago wheat ended off Ia to 7-9
of a cent a bushel, oats off 1-2 to
up IA, rye 34 lower to up l 1-8
and hogs down 25 cents. Cotton
was ahead 5-25 cents bale on re-
duced acreage figures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09
Beach Resort Renames
Clerk For Next Term

Henry G. Fennell was reelected
town clerk of Carolina Beach for
the next two years at the first
meeting of aldermen Tuesday
night.
Mr.. Fennell came to this posi-
ton last November Is.
No other officials were elected,
as the new hoard bent most of its
efforts to discussion of general
problems. The board admitted the
possibility of the petition to ban
beer and wine sales on Sunday
coming before its next regular
session.
The new officials were installed
in office: Mayor A. P. Peay, and
Aldermen w. G. Fountain, A. L.
Jewell, c. M. Kelley, and D. L.
White.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09

-u, Work.. July 8.-lP-Buying
NJ" ""otable selective in today's s
"a; DT' n,arket and, while scattered
s.ocA; ..5;as .s' rails and specialtieS were
p.t-l,.'' relatively strong play,
sssr ssr leaders loitered in restricted
,sclitory' ,,,, t.o,,, tho pa.
u a'' revjved bidding here and
:ac h,,t customers generally in
tlese1 m +o wariness pending clari-
clasa .;on of Russian-German bat
4'sflond sad NJ more definite indications
ties emo @; Washington economic
Ees%-'S 5s. Some commitments were
:saa5as-ated sa-[.s. on the idea selling in
ss,Dr, .so nreceding session was Tar from
impressive +oozo,, ,,
l+s LIED at the start with air
pre-, '''l 'amusements and senior is
-,1's' .as: Of power and light companies
s.. sy's fractions to point or more
up m.av at peaks for the e.,,;'aaI,oot year Or
5"a"ar 5a'gs There we're subsequent
io'5l io Jovns and. while advances
iy.ro y,,r' in the majority at the close
'(rInes J'- we're plentiful.
Ut The Tii Associated Press 6o-stock
.ansoe trs was up . of a point at
~ Where it was only L under lne
No.. hog mark since November T. lSss, !3
os'' oos1'o'bIisbed July /. The utility
es,@o,,s s.,,,oos;te registered its top quo.
.o+ilp .o+;no since November IA, l94o. VI
90; oS:'G,, ;ss,les traded, 1894 were up, 21o
So'rn Soo land and 2l6 unchanged. Trans
ao~+- lors +otaled 96O.l9 shares com
pom On the side of utilities were {,
.,ossino 0 earnings estimates and
tao m,+look for good postwar ousl-
ness Peace-tilne prospects re-
,oained s as prop for air trans
oorts Expectations of sugar ra-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, July 8.-(P)-Cotton
futures closed 525 cents a bale
lower today after early gains OF
almost 81 bale were Whitfield
on profit-taking and selling.
The early advance came on the
heels of a lower than expected
government crop profit indicating
100000 fewer acres now than t
the same time last year. Selling
partly was influenced by the
House Agriculture committee kill
ing the proposed corn ceiling in
crease to $1.40 a bushel, basis
Chicago.
Futures closed to 25 cents a
bale higher.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09
PRICE INDEX DECREASES

WASHINGTON, July 8.-lRI-The
Bureau of Labor Statistics whole
sale price index decreased OIL per
cent last week to 103 per cent of
the 1926 average. Prices for live
stock and fruits and vegetables de-
clined for the third consecutive
week, the bureau said. The gen.
eral price level was 0.9 per cent
below a month ago, 4.6 per cent
higher than during the first week
of July last year, 1871 per cent
above the corresponding week in
1887, and 81 per cent above the
average for July 1929.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-09
MIDDLING

NEW ORLEANS, July S.-lR-
The average price of middling 15-
18th inch cotton today at ten desig-
mated Southern spot markets was
5 cents a bale toWer at BLOB centsc
pound; average for the last 30
market days 21.12; middling 7-S
inch average 1904.