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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-15

Despite lack Of many Of these fine wooen fabrics oeon
offer value conscious unusually fine selection Of
Handsomely tailored single and double breasted suits for bus
and dress Each one is Of regular quality
duced from regular stocks richytextured worseds,
tweed cheviots fonnes twists Regulars 36 to 46 shorts
A. Note: Snee-breosed suits threepiece, double
breasted are two-piece.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-24

clared our pastor, Rev. Clarence T.
R. Nelson, in a sermon last Sunday
morning. Mr.. Arthur Hollinger
made his Christian profession and
Joined the church, after being bap-
tized. Mr.. Hollinger, who is the
brother of the late Mrs. Georgia
Hendricks, lives at Pipestone, Min
nesota. He will be placed under the
watch-care of the First Methodist
Church at Pipestone of which the
Rev. Albert Tuck is the pastor.
Plans were made for the watch
night service that will be conducted
this year by the young people, in
the meeting of the Youth Fellow
ship Sunday evening. This service
which will be conducted by the
young people is for adults as well
as young people. We were pleased
to have present at the meeting
Corporal Warren Hayes, one of our
fine young men. Corporal Hayes is
stationed at Fort Knox, Ky.
The Sunday School will give its
annual Christmas program at 8:15
pm. Christmas eve. You are invit-
ed to come and bring your presents
for your friends and place them on
the Christmas tree. The choir will
render its Christmas program and
service at II o'clock the same night.
"The ABC of Christmas will be
the subject of the sermon by Pastor
Nelson at the II am. service on
Sunday. The choir will sing Christ
Observation-Disclosures
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-24
Lost Christmas

o, ageless star-eternal Bethlehem
Enduring cruel centuries, the cross, the tomb
Glowing as daybreak through the midnight gloom
Of warning Earth to speak glorious apothegm.
Man stands in doubt and that his pursuit
Of Peace turn to hate and make him kill,
If he but understood God never meant good will
To flow from lips while hearts mute
In many lands cathedral bells are hushed,
They shall not ring to mock His Holy birth,
Or chime of Good Will, Peace Earth,
While Freedoms faint and prayers are blushed
World, how many ages yet before man learns,
The awful price in blood and tears of war,
The wounded hearts, the soul-deep scar,
That testers a thorn, and deeper hatred burns.
Peace Earth, true Good Will Toward Men,
God writes with majesty and fire across the sky,
In stardust the bloody soil where youths to die
With life candle a tree to light again.
O. ageess star-eternal Bethlehem,
Enduring each and every tragic mortal woe,
To light a darkened world man to know
Should hold each soul jewel in Christ's diadem.
James 7. Logan
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-24
Church Notes

Camphor Memorial Methodist
Church Notes: "Only as men bring
themselves, their gifts of love and
service, and place them in the
cradle Of Bethlehem's Holy Child
can they find and have peace" de-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-24
st. Paul Church
Choirs Join in
Choral PuGeunt

Members of the choirs of the Mt.
Olivet Baptist, Pilgrim Baptist, St.
James A. M. E. and Camphor Meth
odist churches were among the $500
singers who participated in the
great st. Paul Christmas Choral
Pageant in the st. Paul Municipal
Auditorium last Sunday afternoon.
A capacity audience witnessed this
unique interdenominational and in
ter-racial program, which was sup
ervised by Mrs. Paul G. Bremen,
director Of the Church Music APP
probation Hour.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-24
Happy Birthday
to These Folks!

Birthday greetings to Eugene L,
Moore, 1902 9Th Ave. No., Sunday.
Dec. 26, and to Murt Ewing, 104
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-24

mas music and babies will be chris
tened. The senior choir, of which
Mrs. L. Viola Monson is the presi-
dent, will render a musical program
at 1880 p. m. Sunday. DR.. W. 81.
Williams, our district superintend-
ent, will preach for US on Sunday,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-24
They're Off!

Who will be Miss Halle @. Brown
Of 1914 is the question being asked
in st. Paul this week.
Votes by the public for their IA
vorite candidates will be appre-
ciated by the following contestants:
Kitty Vassar Taylor, Elizabeth
Young, Janabelle Murphy, Eloise
Vassar, Bette Lou Dodd, Myra Nc
Adams.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
British Admit Loss
Of Landing Grounds
On The Isle Of Coo

CAIRO, Oct. 7.-(P-The Brit
ish declared today that fierce re-
sistance against German forces
landing on the Dodecanese island
of Cos was continuing, but admit
ted the Germans had captured
number of landing grounds and
now control the town of Cos.
A British communique said the
small force of Allied defenders on
the island, in the Aegean sea, was
exacting a heavy toll from the
Germans.
Raj bombers rained explosives
on the nearby islands OF Rhodes
and Crete Tuesday night, pound
ing German airfields.
Raj fighters, who attacked Ger.
man landing parties at Cos Sum
day when the Nazis launched their
attack to attempt to wrest the is
land from the Allies, said they
sWooped low with cannons blazing,
and planted bombs among the
Nazi vessels, and that they saw
wrecked and smoking landing
equipment scattered along the
beach,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08

Before Lodge spoke, the Senate
had heard Senator Russell D-Ga),
standing beside huge global map
of the world criticize the British
because, he said, they are passing
lease-lend materials to other coun-
tries without giving credit to the
United States.
He suggested that American re
lief and rehabilitation in occupied
countries be under military, instead
of civilian, direction, and said
there was lack of a clear foreign
policy to guide American military,
economic and diplomatic repre-
'sentatives in their competition
with the British.
Russell also took the British to
task for not launching an offensive
in Burma, although the Georgia
senator expressed confidence in
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
NAILS SCHEDULE
PURGE IN ITALY
Hitler Reported Planning
To Wipe Jews From
All Europe

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7.-R-Adolf
Hitler was reported today to have
ordered all Jews cleared out of
Europe before the end of the war,
with a purge in Italy scheduled to
follow Immediately after the cur
rent persecution in Denmark.
The capitulation of the Badoglio
government in Italy already is be-
ing blamed in Rome on the Jews,
according to reports received here,
and German papers in Rome de-
clare that "Fascism demands that
Jews should be rendered harmless
and must disappear from the ma
tional life of Italy,
This phrase is similar to that
used in official German announce
ments launching the pogrom in
Denmark.
The Stockholm newspaper Social
Demokraten said it had learned
from informed German circles that
Hitlerian decree already h d
been issued ordering all ] W S
cleared from Europe.
The order was declared being
carried out under storm troop lead
er Eichmann, known as the Jew
DICTATOR of Europe. Eichmann
was born in Palestine after his
parents went there as G e m n
colonists.
Another Swedish source was told
by high German elite guard Of
ficer who visited here recently that
whether we win the war or not,
one thing is sure: not single Jew
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
|YUC0SLAVS THROW
TANKS INTO PUSH
GuerriIlas Using Modern
Weapons Against Ger
man Forces

LONDON, Oct. 7. (P) - A
Yugoslav Partisan broadcast re-
ported in London tonight said Yu-
goslav guerrilla fighters had
thrown tanks into the battle for
the Istrian peninsula and destroy
ed 10 German tanks and one Ger
man plane.
News of the victory. said to have
occurred near Jedreska, was not
included in the regular communi-
que of the peoples liberation army,
but Yugoslavs here with Partisan
connections reported hearing the
broadcast detailing the tank fight
Sixty-five German soldiers were
said to have been killed while the
Yugoslav forces lost four tanks.
Yugoslav sources in London were
unable to say what type of tanks
the Partisans were using or where
they were obtained.
Daniel de Luce, Associated
Continued on Page Three; Col 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
ADVANCE IS SLOW
Reds Claim Bridgeheads
Being Widened At Heavy
Cost To Foe
ENEMY IS THREATENED
1000 Mile Front Ablaze
From Leningrad To
Southern Area
ENEMY IS THREATENED

LONDON, Oct. 7.-(P)-
The Red army in a smashing
renewal of it's 1943 offensive
has cracked the vaunted Ger
man middle Dnieper river de-
Tense line, establishing three
west bank bridgeheads and
extending them "step by
step" despite furious German
counterattacks which are be-
ing "repulsed with heavy
LOSSES" Moscow announced
tonight.
The Russians also have
captured a springboard to
Latvia and have virtually
liquidated German resistance
in the Caucasus opposite the
Crimea in the resumed often
sive, this time rolling ahead
on nearly a 2,O00-mile front
from Leningrad southwark.
May Force New Retreat
The smashes across the Dnieper
threatened to trap hundreds OF
thousands of Germans in the river
loop and force another G m a n
Withdrawal-this time clear back
into Rumania and Poland.
Tonight's communique. recorded
by the Soviet monitor, was read
twice over the Moscow radio and
was followed by patriotic songs
a procedure reserved for great
events. 1t listed these sweeping
Russian gains:
Soviet forces planted themselves
firmly across the middle Dnieper
on the west bank north of Kiev.
south of Pereyaslav, so mil e S
southeast of the kraine capital.
and southeast of Kremenchug be-
tween that city and Dnepropetrovsk
on the river bend.
The Russian movement suggest
ed another great series of ami
hllation pincers similar to those
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
Permits Are Issued
For $52,365 In Ne,u
Building Work Here

Permits were issued for an
estimated $52,365 in new con-
struction and alterations here
during September, City Build
ing Inspector Gilbert C. Nor
ton said Thursday.
The permits brought the city
1854 in fees.
The major permits went for
three alteration contracts, to
be completed by the govern
ment under the Homes Con-
version program, a S8,21O job
at la Market street, a S7,897
job at 81 North Third street,
and a $11. APO job at 10 Orange
street. The conversions are be-
ing made to furnish apart
ments for war workers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08

the ability of the new India-Burma
commander, Lord Louis Mountbat-
ten. He told his colleagues Maj.
Gen. Claire L. Chennaults Amer
lean Army Air Force is doing most
of present active fighting against
the Japanese in China, but Lodge
added that the Chinese armies are
holding off fifteen Jap divisions.
Senator Mead D-NY' urged
reapportionment of United Nations
petroleum supplies, with the British
meeting a larger share OF needs.
President Roosevelt told press
conference last Tuesday that steps
toward this end are being taken.
He said the British had Wan1eo 10
furnish a larger share OF OIL an
along, but that it was not ieasi0le
Continued on Page Three; COL ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
RETREAT IS ENDED
Germans Battling Eighth
Army Along Us Mile
Italian Front
SEEMS WELL PREPARED
Foe Appears Set To Make
Invaders Pay Dear
Price For Rome

ALLIED HEADQUAR.
TIERS, Algiers, Oct. 7.-Pl
Germans have rushed
an armored division to the
Adriatic coast and have open
ed a bitter battle against the
British Eighth Army, ending
their 300-mile retreat and
finally taking a stand against
the advancing Allies along a
125-mile front across Italy.
After a slow Withdrawal
since the Allies first invaded
the italian mainland with the
landing of Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery's E g h t h
Army at Reggie Caiabria
September 8, the German
army apparently has en-
trenched itself for a strong
stand and is determined to
make the United Nations pay
a dear price for their next
major objective, Rome.
The Germans were disclcs-
ed at Allied headquarters to-
day to be rushing the fortifi-
cation of the Volturno river
line north Of Naples against
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's
American Fifth Army, which
reported continued dogced
progress despite extensive
Nazi demolitions and a heavy
rain which left the battlefield
soggy.
Germans in Strong Force
A military spokesman at head
quarters said that the Germans
were believed to be holding the
Volturno line in some strength"
On the Adriatic coast the Ger
mans attacked the advancing Brit
ish and Canadians of the Eighth
Army with tanks and infantry in
the Termoli area, and the first
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
NAPLES IS TORN
BY GERMAN MINE
Scores OF Italians Killed
When Time Bomb Rips
Postoffice
BY NOEL MONKS
Representing the Combined
British Press

NAPLES, Oct. 7.-tR-One OF the
wars greatest atrocities was per-
petrated against the Neapo1itans
by the Germans today when a de-
layed action mine containing sew.
eral hundred tons of high explo-
sive. planted in the basement OF
the postoffice building, went off.
Scores of Italian civilians. includ-
ing many women and children,
were blown to pieces as the whole
pavement in the Via Armondo Diaz
was flung into the air.
Practically every person on the
ground floor of the postoffice was
killed as we'll as many civilians
walking in the street a block away.
People also were killed in adjoin-
ing buildings.
The explosion occurred at one
Of the busiest times of the day
when hundreds of Neapolitans
Continued on Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
CAMP DAVIS HEAD
COMMENDS FARMER
Col. Potts Says Soldier
And Planter Must Work
For Peace

"Peace through victory will come
by work together between tn far
mer and the soldier - two groups
which have worked side by side
since the beginning of time" stat
ed Col. Adam E. Potts, who spoke
to joint meeting of the Farmers
and Kiwanis clubs at dinner
meeting held Thursday night at
Wrightsboro clubhouse.
Col. Potts reviewed the role of
the farmer in world history, de-
claring the farmer-warrior has
held high place in military history
ever since Cincinnatus left the
pillow in SIG B. C. to raise the siege
of the Romans a. Mt. Algidus.
Since that time the farmer has
played a close role with the SOL
der, citing Fitz Lee, George Wash
ington, and Ulysses Grant as eX-
amples.
1.-THE farmers Of North Carroll
na," continued Col Potts, rang
true to tradition when they left
their crops and herds to organize
the first armed resistance to the
Crown in protest Of the eXtrava-
gance of the Royal Governor Tryon
in New Bern.
1.-The farmer is an individualist
with conscience. He is as inn
portant as the shipbuilder, miner,
or the craftsman. Food, produced
by the farmer is a munition of
war - as important as guns. Thus
the farm is an arsenal of fighting
strength.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
New Crisis Develops For Nazi Army
AS Russians Begin Anoth Campaign

The Velikie Luki trap was set
by the Russians long ago. They
took that corner of the vital rail
triangle last winter, only to allow
that front to lie dormant until now.
At Newell, Red armies are in close
striking distance of Polotsk in rear
of the Vitebsk gateway bastion.
They have ruptured direct rail and
road connections between N i
forces west of the Dnieper and
those in northwestern Russia. A
quick Nazi retreat in the north,
even Nazi evacuation of Esthonia
and much of Latvia, could result.
The push to Newell likely is the
actual beginning of another Rus
sian winter offensive. 1t will at
least merge into real winter fight
ing, always advantageous in the
past to the Russians, if it is sus-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08

more months along Alice
Pacific strategy will have
succeeded in cutting the en-
emy's economic jugular vein
through the China sea.
That is the long-range signifi.
canoe of the Wake attack, regard.
less of whether it was raid for
destruction of Japanese lns1alla.
tons or the beginning of whirl-
wind campaign to reconquer the
island.
The pattern of the Wake action
was established in an American
task force raid on Marcus island
a month ago. Marcus is only about
l 1000 miles from Japan, and al
though Warships shelled it and
planes bombed it for hours on end
mot sea-borne enemy gun show
ed up to defend it.
The explanation seems to lie in
the fact that the japanese have
been decisively beaten in naval
and air fighting from the Bering
sea to the Indian ocean and are
unwilling to risk their remaining
warships for any except the great
est stakes-in other words, to try
to prevent direct threat to Japan
itself.
This ties in directly with indi-
Gated American strategy in the
Pacific:
One of the Nays jobs presum-
ably is to reopen a line of island
bases across the Central Pacific,
CONTINUED on Page Three: Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
Many Assault On Wake Island
Is New Challenge To Jap Navy

WASHINGTON Oct. 7.-QP) The Navy assault on
Wake island challenges Japans control of the West
Central Pacific
If the Japanese fleet won't out and fight now,
the whole huge inundated island which Tokyo has
relied heavily for defense of the empire be considered
vulnerable to early American conquest
The betting among military and naval authorities is
that the fleet won't out that key points the Mar
SHALL Gilbert and Caroline islands will be taken against
strictly localized resistance and that before the war many
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
>lberian Bases For Allies Could Save
Million American Lives, Says Senator

Ts "a4SSHlNGToN, Oct. Z. - ZAP, -
viz, senate, afforded a bomb bav
po~+. u the lighting fronts in re-
T No. > IRON three globe-girdling
Orc ',ogss' heard an estimate from
live. quay that million American
Js9 W. can be saved in conuuering
bS+ gan II Russia will open Siberian
se 10 Allied bombers.
the '@.on Lodge (R-Mass', one of
door. group who reported behind
the n,, %nleh were locked against
f.rs. PUBIC t,,,.t and the press for the
his his a uMe since June, 1912. cave
Ia lars estimate in a review deaI NO .
1ia5 5yLy with the toughness Of the 8
wbil IN the Pacific. "
1n'r l-'e e the session was secret.
ii ~ members talked fully abol1t
s.,@ @', Vel and some said ' thev
D' reason for the secrecy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday,
Oct. 8.-tRl-Starving and short Of
ammunition, the japanese appar.
entity have abandoned their prin.
cipal air base of Villa and, at con.
siderable cost in lives and ships,
have fled the entire southern halt
of Kolombangara island in t h e
Solomons, General Macarthur an
nounced today. Evacuation of the
rest of the island is in progress.
Cutting of supply lines support
ing Villa, accomplished evera
weeks ago by our surprise occu-
patton of Vella Lavella to he
north, thus outflanking all sea sup
ply routes, has forced the enemy
to attempt to evacuate his troops
from Kolombangara," communi-
que said.
villa and the southern part of
the island apparently already have
been abandoned by troops moving
toward the northern shores.
For several nights by barge
and small warship, the attempt at
evacuation has been progressing.
Many barges have been sunk with
great loss of enemy life and some
of his troops undoubtedly escaped
to safety. The enemy's struggle
to evacuate continues"
Villa, which is across the Kula
gulf from American won New
Georgia and has undergone artil-
lery Smelling from American forces
on nearby Arundel, once garrison
ed an estimated 10000 men.
Over wide area, Allied planes
struck at enemy shipping. TIL e
communique reported at least q
small Japanese boa is, ranging
from barges to cargo ships, sunk
and at least II enemy planes de-
stroyed.
The enemy's Villa garrison mas
been in an untenable position since
the Americans drove the Japanese
from New Georgia and occupied
Vella Lavella, thus putting forces
north and south of Kolombangara.
Recently the Japanese have been
evacuating troops from Villa by
barge to Choiseul and Bougainville,
many of these self-propelled YES
sells falling prey to bombs of Allied
planes.
The japanese have paid heavily
in lives lost in these bombings,
headquarters said today.
Off Choiseul, 18 such barges were
smashed in the latest air attack
by Airacobras.
But some Of the japanese did
reach safety, headquarters added.
Such an evacuation means vir-
tual clearance of the enemy from
the central Solomons except pos
sibly for small groups still con-
testing the Americans on Vella La
vella.
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
County Disease Rate
Very Lou In View Of
CROWDED. Conditions

considering the increase in
population Of New Hanover
county during the past year
the total number of diseases
reported have not been alarm
ing - with the exception Of
meningitis" stated DR.. A. H.
Elliot, county health officer.
Fifteen cases of meningitis
were reported for the year un-
til September 1 with four more
added that month. Other dis
eases and the number report
ed for the year until October
l are: chickenpox, 1893; meas
les, 1924; scarlet fever, 81; ty-
phoid, 4; whooping cough, 81;
diphtheria, IL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08

OF the Ways and Means COM
mittee leaning toward a much
lower figure.
Z. Rep. Celler ON. " de-
clared in a statement that an in
crease in the liquor tax from Sc to
$40 a gallon. as recommended by
the Administration. would cause a
return to 'bootIegging and hijack-
ing"
3. President Philip Murray of
the Go wrote Ways and Means
Chairman Doughton (D-NC) oppos-
ing any downward revision of per-
sonal exemptions in paying income
lakes.
T. Rep Fulmer (D-s.C.), who is
CHAIRMAN Of the House Agriculture
committee. urged adoption of the
treasury recommendation for re-
peal Of the 3 per cent levy on
transportation of property.
NnSon told the Ways and Means
committee a 10 per cent sales tax.
e@colated TO bring in $4,000, 900. :
VuV annually would break the gov
eminent hold the line" home
.'g',' policy and open the way for
@a0 imitation. Treasury witnesses
ment ''-1 - s -
S2onSors of sales tax express
W g S that it could pass, in view
" o .ie administrations position.
Umer DEVELOPMENTS of the day:
, -u7 Senate, gathered in an un-
, Ioo'- secret session, heard five of
l l'.eI number who have Just toured
, 1o,aelfohtS call for a firm foreign
Eo--'F' especially to assure Amer
l,'I use Of airfields now being
'U,l- around the world.
secretary Of War Stimson re-
,|'eq mat the first four weeks of
s s, salerno fighting cost 8,3o7
k.no sl'Vdn casualties, including 511
e. Inc House immigration commit.
cS.o voted to 4 to repeal the old
"gSe exclusion acts.
en, -'Is :. allowances for depend.
u Servicemen were voted by
~e"''lued on Page Three. Col n
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08

tanned only for two or three weeks.
West of Newell to the Latvian
border the country is studded with
big and little lakes through which
the railroad to Polotsk winds its
way. The main rail route from
Leningrad to Odessa down h e
west bank of the Dnieper passes
through Newell with Vitebsk a n d
Orsha the next major towns south
ward.
Capture of Newell by the Rus
SLAMS opens the way for a direct
drive southwark at Vitebsk as well
as an enlightenment sweep south.
westward toward Polotsk. A Rus
sian surge northWaro toward the
Pskov junction gateway up the
Leningrad-Odessa railroad may be
Continued on Page Eight; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-08
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

A new and grave crisis has de-
veloped for the Nazis in Russia,
threatening their whole northern
flank to the Baltic.
A major Russian offensive is un-
der way in the Velikie Luki-Novo-
sokolniki-Nevel triangle, north of
the Dnieper line. Newell already
has been captured.
That is the most critical sector
of the long eastern front for the
Germans. Linked w it h Russian
thrusts converging on the Vitebsk
gateway just to the south above
the Orsha bend of the Dnieper, the
fall of Newell could crack the Ger
man front apart. 1t could send
the whole north flank to Leningrad
back in precipitate retreat to avoid
being cut off from the rear.