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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
20 MEN KILLED
IN PLANE CRASH
Craft Falls AT Fort Ben
ming While On Night
Parachute Mission

FORT BENNING, Ca, Oct. %
R-Twenty officers and men were
killed last night when an Army
transport plane crashed at Lawson
Field here while on night para
chute mission the public relations
office announced today.
The dead included two officers
and three enlisted men of the Army
Air Corps and Is enlisted men from
the para chute troops here.
The plane crashed shortly a1ter
taking off from Lawson Field, pup
lie relations officers said. They
reported it was a routine flight
to permit the paratroopers to make
a night jump, now part OF thelr
regular training.
Fire broke out when the plane
crashed, trapping all occupants:
The list of dead and next OF kin:
Air Corps personnel:
End 1t. Gerald A. Scfafer, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
1st 1t. Milton w. Grleg, Baltl-
more, Md.
Sgt. Robert W. Farmer, Dayton,
o.
Pfc. Donald M. Schroeder, Los
Calf.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
SCORE NEW GAINS
Others Involved In Heavy
Fighting With Nazis
Near Mount Chakor

LONDON, Oct. 23.-(R-Yugoslav
partisans under the dashing young
lawyer general, Petar Dabcevis, to-
day were involved in heavy fighting
with Nazi motorized units in the
vicinity of Count Chakor on the
Montenegran ALBANIAN frontier,
while other patriots captured four
villages in southwest Siovenia.
A communique of the Yugoslav
liberation army reported the fall OF
the strategic Slovenian centers of
Kopriva, Visnyvrh, Now Grad and
Gradisce, hamlets which are i'm
portant because they command
lines of communication in a diff
cult mountainous area.
Strike Along Rail Line
The partisans also struck sue
cessfully along the railway line
serving the territory between the
Sava and Danube rivers in eastern
Croatia, said a war bulletin broad
cast by the free Yugoslav radio.
German motorized and tank for
ces were under almost continuous
attack in the Croatian province OF
Lika. near Jezerana. and near Dol
ny-Lapac. The partisans also sank
a German ship off the Dalmatian
coast.
The communique reported that
two enemy tanks were destroyed
in the fighting on the Montenegran-
Albanian frontier. Gen. Dabcevis'
command there consists of units OF
the second corps. The youthful
general won military reputation
fighting in the republican army in
the Spanish civil war.
On the southeastern Balkan front
the Germans claimed they occupied
Stampalia, another in the Dodeca-
nese island group % miles south
west of Cos, freeing large num-
Der of German prisoners held there
by the British since late Septem-
Der.
Claims of the islands capture
yesterday lacked Allied confirma-
ton but if the German propaganda
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Thrown Back By Fifth
Army After Launching
Bitter Counter-Attack
COSTS ARE HEAVY
Allied Planes Press Home
Attacks On Troops,
Gun Positions
BY EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUAR.

A l. L. L u u HEAQQUAh-
TIERS, ALGIERS, OFT. 23-
P)-Field Marshal Gen. Al
bert Kesselring's forces, al
though thrown back by the
Fifth Army after launching
a fierce tank-led counter-at-
tack in the Alife region, dug
in firmly today in their new
positions on the Massico
Ridge-Mount Maltese line SOL
idly blocking the road to
Rome.
The hard counter-attack
was one of the sharpest the
Germans have put in since
their attempt to drive the
Fifth army back into the sea
four days after landing on
the beach at Salerno.
1t cost them dearly. A number
Of Nazi tanks were knocked out
by the deadly fire of American
artillery, but the fury with which
it was launched was an indication
of the Germans determination to
hold their new line stubbornly.
Advances Two Miles
The Eighth Army also frustrat-
ed a counter attack near Monte
cilfone and then advanced two
miles, taking Lupara, which DOM
mates high ground in central It.
ally.
An Allied communique detailing
yesterdays land developments
limited further action was in pro-
gress on the Fifth army's front
by saying that the gain made in
taking commanding height in an
unidentified area was being Eek
ploited.''
The object of the German coun-
terthrusts was to disrupt Allied Of
fensive actions and the Germans
invariably launch them just be-
fore they think the Allies are about
to deliver a blow.
Allied aviation ranged the battle
area, lending its invaluable sup
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Broughton, Darden Call
Tobacco Market Holiday
3O-Hour Week Urged
For Postwar Period

NEW YORK, Oct. 23-tR-
r. ]. Thomas, president of the
United Automobile Workers of
America (CIO), said today
30-hour work week was the
greatest single factor to in
sure employment for ali in
the postwar economy.
81 see the 30-hour week as
the greatest single means of
putting every able-bodied man
and woman, who wants to, to
work at top SKILL" Thomas de-
clared in an address before the
2lst annual fal! c3Ire- ence of
the New York Women's Trade
Union League here.
Thomas, who claims to rep
resent more than a million
workers in the automotive-air-
craft industries, said "the
greatest share of women in
our union are in aircraft. l
expect to lose half-million
people after the war, for as l
see it, the aircraft industry
will be cut at least Is per
cent"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24

28 MEN ARE SAVED
Coast Guard Races To
Scene After Persons On
Shore Sound Alarm

PALM BEACH. Fla, Oct. %
LP-Two b1acked-out tankers col
lided off the Florida coast in the
darkness Wednesday night and 80
men persisted in the flames which
spread from the explosion OF one
of the vessels laden with thousands
Of gallons of aviation gasoline.
The navy permitted announce
ment of the disaster today after
investigating salvage possibilities.
Twenty eight merchant crewmen
and members Of navy gun crews
were saved, most of them leaping
overheard as the flames whipped
over the decks and spread out
over the water.
Sound Alarm
Persons ashore heard the explos-
ion and saw the towering flames
and gave the alarm which sent
Coast Guard craft racing to the
scene.
One Of the ships, northbound and
riding low in the water with the
weight of the gasoline, had 43 crew.
men aboard, including seven naval
gunners, and only seven men sur
vived.
The other tanker, southbound in
ballast, was manned by crew of
70, including Is gunners, and 81
reached safety.
Most of those on deck persisted
instantly.
Christopher P. Finley, %, OF Mi
ami, third assistant engineer
aboard the empty tanper, was at
his post at the time Of the crash,
at 1880 a. m.
Il knew something terrible had
happened" he declared, "but ev-
cry hand in the engine room stayed
at his post, and that saved a lot
Of lives.
Explosions Follow
1.-Two explosions followed inlme-
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planned this was caused by JOBS
being less plentiful in Winning
ton than at one time and the
chance of a person not being able
to be employed on another job
here Immediately if he terminates.
At one war plant in the Will
mington area, Scroggs said ter
limitations dropped below 15o last
week, and another essential firm
here has not had a termination
in three weeks.
Sixty days ago the employment
office daily received 30 to 40 re-
quests for statements of avail
ability from employees in essential
industry, while on Friday it only
received seven such requests.
The War Manpower Commits
sion's employment Sterilization
program was credited by Scroggs
for the drop in labor turnover
here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
SEEK BETTER PRICES
Governors Ask Warehouses
To Close Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday

RALEIGH, Oct. % -tR-Govern.
or Broughton, acting jointly with
Governor Darden of Virginia, to.
night called for sales holiday in
the three mule-cured belts in an
effort to halt declining tobacco
prices.
The governor said he and Gov.
ernor Darden are asking ware
houses to close Wednesday, Thurs.
day and Friday, at least. During
this period, Governor Broughton
said, every effort will be made to
raise prices, particularly for lower
grades of tobacco.
SHARP DROP
The action was taken following
a conference here today between
Governor Broughton and tobaccon-
lists. Governor Broughton called
the session after prices on lower
grades of tobacco dropped as
much as is cents pound this
week.
The tobacconists passed a reso-
luton suggesting that a holiday
be called for at least two days
and to continue as long as the two
governors deem necessary.
The tobacconists also asked thai
Representative Harold Cooley,
who was present, confer with other
North Carolina Congressman and
the Commodity Credit Coopera-
ton in an effort to halt further
price declines. The congressman
were asked to request CCC to re-
store former buyer allotments
and to restore tobacco prices te
their former levels.
At Wilson, N. M. Schaum, chair
man of the U. S. Tobacco Assocla
tons Sales committee, said nt
action would be necessary by his
group if the two groups OF the
two governors called the holiday.
In opening the meeting, Govern
Broughton said that farmers who
cooperated with a governmental
request to harvest food, feed ane
fiber crops before marketing thei1
tobacco "have been penalized be
cause of the price declines.
eff the situation continues, NJ
said. confidence of farmers II
their government will be shaken.
From each of the three belts
old. middle and new bright-camt
reports of sagging prices, the opln
ion generally was that recently
reduced buyer allotments causee
BUYERS to concentrate on better
grades, passing over the lower
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
Five Railroad
Unions Order
Strike Ballot
Step Taken To Point Up
Demands For Substan-
tial Wage Increases
REJECT A. CENT HIKE
Robertson Says Hundreds
And Hundreds Have
Urged Strike Call

rurcAGO. Oct. 23-lRHA nation
10 strike vote among 100000
WV was ordered today by
NV officials of the five operating
. w unions to point up their
to,,snds for substantial wage in
General chairmen Of the five la
bor organizations voted unani-
mmIsiv to poll the rank and file
m tbe walkout question after they
had decided to reject pay hike
NJ four cents an hour proposed
nv an emergency board last
,nontb The workers asked 80
ner cent raise, with a minimum
Increase of SO day, ten months
40. and they deemed the boards
Suggested boost an insult.
Will Prepare Ballots
Delegates to the joint meeting
ranged to appoint three men
+1m each union to prepare and
iribute the strike ballots. Off
r.s estimated the results would
b known in 20 or 80 days.
Some mixing of the sentiments
Of members throughout the coun-
try was provided by David Robert
son, president of the brotherhood
Of locomotive firemen and engine
men. who reported Hundreds and
hundreds" had sent messages adj
yocated strike call.
If The members vote for strike,
a Spokesman said, q date will be
set and the next move will be up
to the government. The govern
ment presumably would take all
steps necessary to forestall para
lysis of the carriers at a time
when they are transporting I'M
precedented loads of war mater
ial.
Adopt Resolution
The labor leaders adopted
resolution maintaining the overall
cost Of living had gone up almost
Is per cent since January, 1941,
the date used in the controverted
little steel formula, while food
costs alone had scared more than
40 per cent,
The strike referendum will be
conducted among members of the
brotherhoods Of locomotive engi-
neerS, locomotive firemen and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
Patriots Take
Four Slovenian Villages
Iripartite Conferees
Continue Discussions

MOSCOW, Oct. 23-(R-The
foreign affairs executives of
the United States, Britain and
Russia held their fifth day of
meetings today.
The United States has been
fully informed over why for
eign secretary Anthony Eden
of Britain saw Premier Mar
shall Joseph Stain Thursday
and later Russian commissar
of foreign affairs Vyacheslav
Moltov.
Hull conferred for the Sec
ond time this week with Chi
nese Ambassador Flu Ping
Sang before today's meeting.
He also seen the Mexican am
bassad0r, the Australian charge
d'Affaires, and Canadian min
lister.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
Great Fleet Of British
BOmbers Attacks KasSe1

LONDON, Oct. 23-R)-A great
fleet of British four-engined bomb
ers penetrated heavy screen of
fighters and murky weather last
night and dropped 1,500 long tons
of bombs in an effective attack
on the German armament city of
Kassel, losing a bombers on the
mission.
A subsidiary force hit Frank
furt and the small but swift ply
wood Mosquito bombers raided the
Cologne area.
The RATS losses on the Kas-
sci raid raised the total for the
month to 1853 in nine major opera
tons, but the Air Ministry de-
scribed the blow as highly effec-
tive. Returning crews brought
back photographs showing huge
fires they left burning under
pail of smoke filling the skies for
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
labor Turnover In Vital
Industries Shows Drop

The labor turnover in the Will
--Dis'oh area has dropped in es-
SEXUAL Industries as a whole at
least % per cent in the past 80
NE asy rs =. Felix A. scroggs, manager
o. o. a. 5. Employment Service, said
Saturday. 'N'N
c. .nlS 1Igure, he said, includes
v rs:ll Davis and Fort Fisher,
Sa have shown only small
ts ,,3 in turnover due to the
t5 s'el necessary to get to jobs and
ne.. type of persons employed,
M r0s u OF whom accept work more
Fn tess on temporary basis.
F Hhaelus ant7 Of Camp Davis, Fort
the en,,' ana construction projects,
, mT employment turnover in viii,
dros sVon essential industries has
e crop IS per cent to D &c 40 me-, ner
IT,. scroggs added.
employment official ex.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
MAYOR PR0CLAIMS
ANNUAL NAVY DAY
Cameron Calls For Observ-
ance By Wilmingtonians
On October II

Mayor Bruce B. Cameron issued
a proclamation Saturday, asking
for observance in Wilmington of
Navy Day on Wednesday, October
81.
A complete Navy Day program OF
arrangements is nearing compile
ton under the leadership of John
A. Sheehan, chairman. Partici-
patton in the observance of Navy
Day is being asked Of the schools,
churches, USO clubs, merchants,
and the general public.
The mayors proclamation fol-
lows in full:
whereas, by official designation
October q has been set apart as
Navy Day; and
whereas, the Secretary OF the
Navy has officially designated the
Navy League of the United States
as official sponsor to obtain appro-
pirate observance of Navy Day;
and
"Whereas, the Navy League OF
the United States has called upon
the people of the nation to devote
some time during the week of Octo-
Der "a to October 80 to appropri-
ate celebration of the accomplish
ments of our Navy, and particular
ly on October 81 pay respect to
(Cop4ipuad m Pape Two. Col p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
REDS MAY RESUME
POLISH RELATIONS
Reported To Have Agreed
To Take Up Dealings
With Exiled Regime

LONDON, Oct. 23-LR-A Berlin
broadcast, quoting the Stockholm
Tidningen, said today it had been
learned that Russia had agreed
to resume diplomatic relations
with the Polish government-in-
exile in London.
Russia broke relations with the
Polish government April 26, &C.
cusing it of acting in concert with
the Germans in pressing charges,
originating in Berlin, that the So
viets had slain 10000 Polish Off
GERS near Smolensk.
The German broadcast, record
ed by the Ministry of Informa-
ton, said the Stockholm newspa-
per carried the report in the
form of London correspondence
saying the Russians had handed
a memorandum to the U. S. and
British ambassadors in Moscow
recently.
This German account was SINH
lar to some stories published in
London. The Russians here said
they knew nothing about it. The
Poles answered only: ASK your
ambassador to Moscow-he should
know"
1t was reported that the So
VETS, as one term of the agree
ment, would recognize all Poles
from western Poland now in Rus
STA as Polish subjects, but would
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
Eisenhower WarnsNatiOn
Faces Long Victory Road

The general said the success OF
the recent Third War Bond drive
had cheered the soldiers on the
front but added that there
were times when the men worried
about home front support.
II think my men would like me
to be brutally honest and tell you
that sometimes in the past they
have worried about how you feel, !"
Gen. Eisenhower said. "They know
that it is your war as much as
theirs.''
Morgenthau, who is touring U.
S. military establishments, also
asserted that final victory is a
long way off," and the fight will
be hard and bloody" He added:
"The least we can do is to supply
our troops with everything they
need until victory is won.
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height of more than three miles.
The Nazis threw up an unusu-
ally heavy fighter force to check
this latest phase of an air bonn
bardment running through both
day and night, but the British
were out in what was described
as very great strength" and the
tonnage equalled or exceeded the
l,5OO long tons dropped the last
time the city was hit, on Oct. 3.
The A downed planes repre-
sented the heaviest loss to the
British bomber command since the
Aug. 81 raid on Berlin, when AZ
aircraft were missing, but the
number was under the RATS rec
ord loss of SO suffered in the Aug.
% attack on Berlin.
Still torn by the Oct. 3 pounding
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NEW YORK, Oct. 23-lR-Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speaking
from A1giers on a war bond pro-
gram, warned the people of the
United States tonight that lit will
be a long, long way to final vic
tory, over rough, bitter road. !"
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., who also spoke
from Algiers over the same pro-
gram broadcast by CHS, said the
American people had over-suo-
scribed the Third War Bond drive
by nearly $4,000, 100000.
Gen. Eisenhower declared:
This is hard war, a bitter,
bloody war. Make no mistake. 1t
will be a long, long way to final
victory, over bitter, rough
road. Our men know it, and are
ready for it. But they want to be
assured above all else that the
home front is behind them"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
4N NURSES PASS
NC. BOARD TESTS
Iwenty-Three Wilmington
Women Included On List
Granted Licenses

RALEIGH, Oct. 23.-lR-A rec.
ord class" of 434 graduate nurses
passed North Carolina board of
nurse examiners examinations con-
quoted in Raleigh and Winston
oalem August 1926 and have been
licensed, Miss Bessie M. Chapman,
BOARD secretary, said today.
Miss Chapman said ATS nurses
reported for the exams, which was
NE largest group ever to report,
ana the 434 who passed consti-
Ju'ed the largest number ever Ii
censed at any one examination.
Many Of the new licensees will
ION either the Army or Navy
nurse corps within a few weeks,
she said.
fHty-one nurses were registered
IN recognition of their registration
IN other states.
tlenore Cutlip Of the Duke Uni
'eiSlty Hospital School of Nursing
'O0ntInueI an pauo Savan. fol ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
NANCY DE MARICNY
DISCL0SES STRAIN
Girl Torn By Cross Cur
rents OF Family Trag-
edy During Trial

NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct. 23-fP)
-Comely Nancy Cakes de Ma
rigny, a 19-year-old girl torn by
the cross-currents of a family
tragedy which finds her husband
on trial for the murder of her
father, began to show the strain
of her bitter experience today.
But in the cage-like prisoner S
dock of the Bahamas Supreme
court, Alfred de Marigny still
grinned confidently while his at
torneys spared expertly with wit
nesses summoned to connect him
with the slugging and burning last
July of Sir Harry Cakes, who
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RUSSIANS TAKE MELITOPOL
AND DRIVE TOWARD CRLMEA:
NAZZS IMPROVE ROME LINE
Allies Close Jap Escape
Route On HuOn Peninsula

closed the narrow corridor
which Japanese earlier in the
week had driven to the coast
about five miles north of AL
lied-won Finschhafen, counted
more than $40 enemy dead.
While these units of the Aus
tralian Ninth division succeed
ed in blocking the coastal out
let of escape for considerable
enemy forces, American-flown
MitchelIs swept over the rear
areas. The sowd destruction
with their bombs and more
than $1,000 rounds of so cali
Der machinegun fire.
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BY G. YATES MCDANIEL

BY C. YATES MCDANIEL
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI-
FIG, Sunday, Oct. 24-tR-Jap-
anese hopes Of reaching the
New Guinea coast on the HuOn
peninsula in strength were
blasted Friday by determined
attacks delivered by Australian
group troops and American
bombers.
These attacks blunted the
enemy spearhead and forced
him to fall back from the vii
lage of Katika westward to a
deputh of LOO yards toward
his inland jungle strong posi-
tons at Sattelberg.
The Australians, who thus
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-24
PURSUE GERMANS
Soviets Are Racing To Cut
Off Crimea AT Perekop
And Kherson
10000 NAILS LOST
Fall OF Key City Under
mines Entire German
Strategy In South
LONDON, Sunday, Oct. "a

LONDON, Sunday, Oct. "a
-(P)-The Russian army
captured the key city of Me-
litopol after II days of street
fighting and swept on south
ward today through the flat,
muddy plains toward the Cri-
mea.
Moscow reports said Soviet
motorized COLUMNS swung out
in pursuit of the Germans in
a race to cut off the Crimea
at Perekop and Kherson after
smashing the last-ditch Ger
man stand in Melitopol.
The Germans lost more
than 10000 men in their vain
attempt to establish a winter
line in the ravaged. city and
triumphant Moscow communicate,
recorded by the Soviet monitor,
described Nazi losses as extra
ordinarily heavy"
Battle In Streets
The Germans had rushed infan-
try divisions, tanks and artillery
into the city, hoping to halt the
Russians, but bitter hand-to-hand
fighting forced back the defenders
street by street. More than 1000
Germans were killed in the last
day alone while 81 tanks and 18
guns were wrecked. Large guam
titles of war material were cap.
tured and several hundred pris-
oners taken.
The fall of Melitopol yesterday
undermined the entire German
defense strategy in the south.
Ahead of the Russians were 1876
miles of indefensible steppes lead.
ing to the mouth of the Dnieper
river.
Premier Marshal Joseph Stain
announced the victory in a special
order of the day describing Nell
topol, on the Molochna river and
the main railway into the Crimea,
as the most vital strategical GEN.
ter of German defenses' on the
southern front.
Guards Approaches
The city guards the approach
es to the Crimea and the lower
reaches of the Dnieper," Stain
pointed out in his triumphant an
nouncement, perhaps indicating e
intends to send his armies with
out pause into the Crimean penin-
sula, where 1t is estimated a Ger.
man force of about 100000 men
is entrenchd
Today's victory definitely shat
tered the German front from Ia
porozhe to the Sea of Azov, which
Hitler apparently had planned to
hold as a continuation of the al
ready broken Dnieper line.
The triumph also brought a new
threat to the large German armies
cornered approximately so miles
to the northwest in the great bend
of the Dnieper. Russian armies
driving down behind these forces
from the north made further pro-
gress today.
The Soviet daily communque, re-
corded by the Soviet monitor, re-
ported continuing advsnces both
south and southeast of Kremen-
chug, where they last were report
ed but Is miles from the ore
center of Krivoi Rog, and south
of Pereyaslav, where they began
(Cnntinued on Pare Twn. Col Al
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WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Slightly warmer
Sunday and Sunday evening.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville
at 8 a, M, on Oct. %, 9.04 feet.
WASHINGTON, Oct. %. -(R)- Wealth
or bureau report of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending =; m.
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