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10 Men Were Lost
In Tanker Collision
Off Atlantic Coast

LEWES, Del, Nov. %. - up -
Nineteen men were lost and pre-
sumably died in a blazing sea after
the tanker Bostonian crashed into
the tanker Affair in thick fog
So miles off the Atlantic coast at
midnight Saturday, fourth naval
district spokesman disclosed to-
night.
Thirty three survivors were res
cued, two of them badly injured,
the spokesman said. Unofficial re-
ports which the Navy did not dis
approve said still other survivors
were landed in another Delaware
port.
Captain Rein Schenore, Latvia-
born master of the Affair, 1000
ton Socony Vacuum Oil Company
vessel, said most of the missing
were members of his crew who
Jumped overheard when the water
was already ablaZe."
"That was a very foolish thing
to do" said Schenore, who COM
n1anded the only lifeboat launched
from the blazing ship.
The Affair was heading toward
Philadelphia with a cargo Of crude
oil The Bostonian, a 7,000-ton Pan
American vessel was running emp
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Operators Report
Air Raid Alarm
Sounded In Berlin

LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 49,
-RCAn air raid alarm was
sounded in Berlin last night,
swedish telephone operators
said, indicating the Raj had
returned to the attack on the
German capital.
A dispatch from Stockholm
said telephone operators there
reported no calls to Berlin
could be completed because of
an air alarm.
The Berlin radio along with
otner continental stations went
OFF the air about four hours
before midnight, another usual
sign of an Raj attack.
The German capital was
rocked Thursday night wnen
nearly 1000 Raj heavy bonn
bers struck Berlin and Lud-
"1gshaven, dropping $500 long
tons Of bombs on the two cities
In devastating raids.
The four-engined bombers
sent more than 1850 two-ton
blockbusters crashing down on
the Nazi capital in Thursday
nights raid.
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DEATHS SADDEN
U. S. CONGRESS
Show Down Fight On
Subsidies Is
Delayed

WASHINGTON, Nov. o. Up -
The House, saddened by the death
Of two of its leading members,
Henry 3. Steagall o. Alabama and
J. William Otter of Pennsylvania,
halted work today for "a hours
and thereby postponed until to-
morrow vote to ban consumer
price subsidies.
Steagail, Democratic chairman
of the House Banking committee
and usually a stalwar1 supporter
Of the Administrator, had led in
the fight against its subsidy pro-
gram. Seventy years old, he died
in George Washington hospital this
morning after heart attack which
associates said was brought on by
an energetic speech against the
program last Thursday.
Otter, IS, chairman of the Re-
publican congressional committee,
and recognized as one of the most
eloquent speakers in Congress,
crashed to his death last night in
a Navy airplane near Columbia,
Pa, A member Of the Appropri-
atoms subcommittee handling Navy
funds, Otter was enroute from the
Squanturn, Mass, naval air base
to the Navy base at Willow Grove,
Pa, at the time.
The two deaths raised to six
the mortalities among House men,
bers Of the 18th Congress a n d
brought from DR.. George W. Cal
yer, Congressional physician, a
warning to other m e m b e r to
"slow down and give more atten-
ton to their physical condition"
They left the political lineup in
the House at 219 Democrats, 207
Republicans, four minor pa t y
members and five vacancies.
Capitol Hill flags were lowered
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British Strongly Reinforce
ed By Canadian
Troops
NAILS FALLING BACK
Berlin Claims Large Scale
Drive Has Been
Opened

ALLIE D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Nov. 22.-F
Secretly reinforced by a
heavy contingent of Canadi-
an troops, General Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery's Eighth
Army has plunged ahead to
capture two more towns near
the center of the Italian front
and was fighting tonight
within two miles Of the enc
my's main defense line along
the upper Sangro river.
"a Berlin broadcast Mon
day night said the Eighth
Army had begun a large
scale offensive, "preceded by
a strong artillery fire and
supported by strong air for
nations" but it described
British gains as negligible.
Heavy losses were declared
to- have been inflicted upon
the attacking troops.
40 Miles Inland
The site of the Eighth Army's
latest thrust, made under miser-
able weather conditions, is approx
imately 40 miles inland from the
Adriatic seacoast. San Pietro Avel-
lana, 10 miles due west of Agnone,
and Vastogirardi, between those
two towns, fell before Montgom-
ery's determined drive that was
aimed at an important junction OF
interior highways leading to Rome.
Capture of Agnone, along with
Archi, Castel San Vincenzo and
Rocchetta in the Eighth Army's
renewed advance was announced
only yesterday. Seizure of the six
stoutly-defended Nazi strongpolnts
within two days tore the enemy's
grip from the last points on the
lateral Vastoisernia highway and
delivered that valuable commune
cations line to Montgomery's ad-
vancing forces.
Cities Burned
The Germans, falling back stub
bornly upon their main winter
line northwest of the S n gro
river were reported burning both
Castel di Sangro and Alfedena in
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TRAIN SERVICE
GIVEN APPROVAL
State Utilities Commission
Okehs A. E.. LIS
Request

RALEIGH. Nov. o. (P) The
State Utilities Commission has
granted the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad company's request to al
low ''mixed train service on its
line between Wilmington and Fay
Chief Clerk D. O. Self said
today.
The ruling allows ACL to take
the present passenger train be-
tween the two cities off that run,
ard use that equipment for an ad-
ditional passenger train between
Wilmington and Rocky Mount-tWo
cars of this train to be operated
through from Wilmington to Wash
ington. D. c., for the purpose of re-
lieving the congestion of travel OF
military personnel between Will
mington and Rocky Mount.
In lieu of the regular Wilmington
Fayetteville passenger train, the
commission ruling authorized the
operation of mixed train"-com-
bined freight and passenger-serV-
ICE between the two cities. How
ever, the ruling prohibits local
switching, with only Through
freight or that running at least
from Wilmington to Fayetteville,
and vice versa-being hauled on
the ruiz.
Self said that the mixed train
would have las many passenger
cars as necessary.
The railroad presented argu-
ments in favor of the mixed train
service on November Is. Previous
ly. the commission had denied the
ACL's request that it be allowed to
discontinue passenger service be-
tween Wilmington and Fayetteville
l.. order to increase its service be-
tween Wilmington, Rocky Mount
and points north.
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BRIEF C0MMUNIQUE
Position On Both Tarawa
And Maxim Is
Improved
FIGHTING IS BITTER
No Opposition Is Report
ed In Land
ing

PEARL HARBOR, T. H.,
Nov. 22.-(P)-U. S. Ma
rines have landed on Abema-
ma atoll, 80 miles southeast
of Tarawa in the northern
Gilberts, and have improved
their position on both Tara
wa and Maxim atolls.
This was disclosed today in
a communique from Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz as the
public anxiously awaited
news of progress of assault
ing forces engaged in bitter
fighting against Japanese
artillery, machine guns and
pill boves on Tarawa. 4
Brief Communique
A communique from the com.
mander-in-chief of the Pacific was
encouraging but brief on this
phase. 1t stated only that "c1r
troops have improved their posi-
lion on Tarawa and Maxim atolls,
but are still encountering consid-
cradle ground resistance"
The Abemama (Apamama) as
sault was confined to one sem
tence:
I'VE have landed Apamama
atoll.
This atoll was believed to be
lightly defended and the fact no
mention was made of opposition
was seen as encouraging. Stimuli
taneously Admiral Nimitz disclos-
ed that Vice Adm. Raymond A.
Spruance of indianapolis is direct
ing central Pacific operations and
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British Use Secret Caves
To Store Invasion Guns

linking old caves. All the work
men were sworn to secrecy.
All that was known about their
mole-like iocs was that they were
working at the duraI" Hundreds
of rumors spread about the place,
but the public never knew exactly
what was going on. The most per-
sistent rumo1 was that 1T was an
emergency food store. 1t was
food for guns.
One enters the underground city
through what looks like an ordl-
nary railway tunnel. The interior
is a maze CT tunnels, rail lines,
conveyor belts, elevators, storage
rooms, offices, anc barracks LOT
workmen and guards.
IT was here three months be-
fore l could say I knew the place
properly" said the commanding
officer. A stranger gets hopelessly
lost in five minutes.
Over the entrance OF one OF tne
great storage sections is pahtea
the words, "Germany's Bogey."
Among other features OF tn e
place is a telephone exchange OPP
Grated by ATS (Auxihary Ierr1-
torial Service) girls, modern work
shops, an air conditioning system
and an emergency generating
plant powerful enough to PROVIDE
power and light for whole town.
ship.
Yet on emerging from the depths
of the earth into daylight, one sees
only peaceful pasture lalao Il u
OrazinC courS
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> TANKS SMASHED
Battlefield Carpeted With
Many German
Dead
REDS HOLD FIRM
Push Toward Kiev Is Stop
ped By Russian
Armies

LONDON, Tuesday, Nov.
23.-(P)-Red army troops
buttressed by fleets Of tanks
smashed powerful new Nazl
attacks near Korostyshev,
hating a savage counterot-
fensive toward Kiev, wreck
ing 80 enemy tanks and car
|peting the battlefield with
German dead, Moscow an
nounced early today.
Even as the Germans lung
ed desperately on this narrow
sector 20 miles east Of Zhit-
omir, other Soviet armies on
the distant flanks slashed
deeper into the Dnieper bend
to the southeast, and in the
Rechista area to the north,
killing $500 Nazis, said the
broadcast communicate re-
corded by the Soviet monl-
tor.
Relieve Pressure
These drives apparently were in
tended to relieve pressure on the
Kiev sector as well as to advance
the general offensive toward the
borders of Rumania and pre-War
Poland. Y
Another 800 Germans fell in bat
tie 10 miles north of Zhitomir. the
war bulletin declared, as F e d
Marshal Gen. Fritz Won Mannstein
struck out in new direction IN
the Chernyakov area, possibly
aiming at Korosten. Two attacks
were repulsed near Chernyakhov.
Holding firmly in the ninth day
of battle in the Korstyshev sec
tor. the Soviets were declared to
have met and broken the tremen-
dous new Nazi onslaughts yester-
day, leaving the approaches to the
Russian position covered with
dead German officers and men.
The twin-pronged Red army
cleanup of the Dnieper bend ham
raered closer to Krivoi Rog and
Nikopol, the war bulletin said.
Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's heavy ar
NOR swept VIGOROUSLY over at
least six strongly-fortified German
defense centers in broadening
Dnieper bridgehead south of kre-
menchug, and fought off counter
BLOWS launched against the Rus
sian bridgehead at Cherkasl, mid
way between Kremenchug and the
Kiev sector.
Thanking Won Mannstein's attack
from the north, Gen. Constantln
Rokossovsky drove westward along
a 1OO-mile front-capturing II vii
lagos and one railway station along
the lower Pripet river, taking Ii
more towns west of Rechitsa. and
storming eight centers OF resist
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$40. 900 Mark Is Passed
In War Chest Campaign

has not made an official report,
but many of the departments have
reached or exceeded department
Goals s P. Ware, chairman OF the
ehinvard division, said MONDAY
night. Solicitation is continuing IN
all departments during the re-
mainder of this week giving every
one of the thousands CT war WORK X
ers in the yard ar, opportunity TO
contribute to the war fund.- 49,
Robert Scott, chairman Oh tne
large Atlantic Coast Line .. aav,SiO o.
was unable to give al official r. re-
port during the day because aa,s ene esd
campaign is continuing .a az '1 ,ln AIM M
throughout the large AZ ,,1o u,as' has "a,
til everyone Of their employees '
tContinued On Page Six; COL D
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OIL VENTURE IN
CANADA ASSAILED
Ickes Says Entire Project
Should Be
Junked

WASHINGTON. Nov. 22-ztR -.
Spokesman for three government
agencies criticized the Army sharp
ly today for its $l3O, 900, 900 Cana.
dian oil venture and broke into the
open a smouldering argument dat
ing back year and a half. Inter-
1or Secretary Ickes said fatty
that the whole project fought to
be junked.'
The Senate's Truman committee,
self-chosen umpire in the dispute,
heard from the Interior Depart
ment, the Budget Bureau and the
War Production Board that
1.-The War Department ignored
other interested departments when
it negotiated with Canada to fl
rance, entirely with U. S. funds,
the drilling of q wells in Canada,
laying 500-mile pipe line and
erection of a refinery. to provide
the Army's Alaskan forces with
fCel.
2-Protests of the Interior De-
partment and the War Production
Board that the plan was unsound
were not needed.
The charges were made by likes,
as petroleum administrator, and
supported by Leroy Whitney, tech
nical consultant to WPB Chairman
Donald M. Nelson. Harold D.
Smith, director of the budget,
served notice at the same tinNe
that the War Department would
be expected to defend the con-
tracts with the Canadian govern
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the Nazis re-Won Leros and Cos to
the south in the Dodecanese. and
it's fall had been anticipated here.
Small Outposts
Samos, Leros, and Cos formed
small outposts Of an Allied often
sive arc drawn DIP against the
flank of Crete. Allied reports some
weeks ago told of Allied occupa-
ton of the island of Castelrosso
far to the south and it presuma-
bly, still is IN Allied hands, though
of little military significance.
While the German radio W a
announcing the capitulation of Sa.
mos, vastly superior German fore
es were being bitterly engaged
over Yugoslavia, and the Nazi po-
sition in both Bulgaria and Ru-
mania vas weakening.
The partisan army of Gen. Jo-
sip Broz (Tito) il Yugoslavia-
drawing in more and more Ger
man troops from the north as it
struck at the weakest point Of Hit
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Challenge Of u. S. Naval
Power Confronting laps

outposts will come under deadly
fire from east and south.
Official American reports are
too meager as yet to afford
certain strategic pattern of the OPP
Grafton. Press accounts from
Pearl Harbor and the recent dec
laration of Admiral Chester Nj
mitz, Pacific f l e e commander,
that the hour for a general ad
vance westward in the Pacific has
come, leave no doubt, however,
that landings on Maxim and Ia
rawa are but the first skirmishes
CT planned major action.
Ni1litz's come-out-and-fight chal-
lenge to the main Japanese fleet
has been transformed from words
into action. The full weight of the
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LONDON, Nov. 22.-R-From
an underground city carved out
of solid rock and rivallng sections
of the famous Magnet and Sleg-
fried lines will flow much of the
ammunition to be used in the Al
lied invasion of Europe.
The existence of TINS huge bomb
proof arsenal, along with the fact
that the British started building it
seven years ago, was made public
today for the first time, as the
press Was taken through it on a
guided tour.
1t has been one of this country's
best kept war secrets. and news
men looked on in amazement as
a war office official explained how
some old, abandoned quarries were
converted into a giant subterrane-
an warehouse for explosives.
Details of the vast stores are,
Of course, secret. All that can be
said is that there are stacks and
stacks more of ammunition ready
for the big day.
Away back in 1886, someone at
the war office with a bunch about
the future had what then was call
ed a brainstorm for utilizing the
unused quarries as storage areas.
Starting with a small crew of ex-
perts, the number Of workers was
drawn from all over England and
grew into thousands Hundreds of
thousands of tons of rock had to
be moved and new tunnels cu1
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BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

At long last the supreme chal-
lenge of American sea power IS
confronting Japan in the north
central Pacific west of the inter-
national date line.
Backed up by sea-alr armada
now adequate for its task, Amerl-
can land fighters are ashore IN
the Gilbert islands which fly-speck
The charts just north of the Equa-
tor, carving out offensive footholds
a thousand miles nearer Tokyo.
With Maxim and TaraWa atous
won and consolidated, neutrallza-
ton or recapture of the whole Mar
shall and Gilbert groups most like
ly will follow and the Truk island
pivot of Nipponese central Pacific
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SUPREME COURT
RULES ON LABOR
Holds That Courts Can
Not Settle Raid
Disputes

WASHINGTON, Nov. % - up -
The Supreme Court ruled today
that under federal law the settle
ment of jurisdictional disputes be-
tween railroad unions is up to the
national galway mediation
board or the union themselves not
the courts.
In three cases involving the is
sue the court declared IN opinions
bv Justice Douglas that while Con-
gress had provided specifically for
judicial review in certain types
Of railroad disputes, it had not 81
ven the solution of jurisdictional
controversies to the courts.
The vote was seven to two In
two cases, with Justices Roberts
and Reed dissenting, and four to
three in the third case. with JUS
tees Reed, Roberts and jackson
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WEATHER
FORECAST

MAJ FORECAST
!.ee1iMnIr 9 CAROLINA: Temperature near
tral rs ,S. IN mountains and in north CEN
cd rat Gesaay morning. air and continue
-''ieI cold Tuesday,
pN eastern Standard Time)
Mete%nss U. S. Weather Bureau)
ending 't7o 40 data for the "a hours
''0 p. M, yesterday.
Ian temperature
! ST l..S IN H., Sc, Z 80 M, So. 1:3o n. m.
~, Mean ~ m 90 Maximum so, Minimum
Fsa 81, Normal 54. ''' N''-
la. Humidity
&, la H., 81, 80 a. M, II, 1 30 n m
Total g.. Precipitation
b. NJ, on. OF i, the "a hours ending 7:so
s62 ip t snce the first of the month
From :. Tides Fer Today
L S. co me Tide Tables published bv
=, N0sst and Geodetic Survey W
wilmington High Low
''0fo Inlet -- 9 9:I9p a:5app
o sa35iss. s:ss a M, Sunset ZIP p, Asp
A'SS a. Noonset, IS p w. F. ILL.,
- Ss'ss Fear River stage at Fayetteville
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Bill Deferriing'
Pre-WarDads|
Goes To F. R.
Final Congressional APP
nrovsl Given Draft
Measure
Effect QUESTIONED
National Pool Provided,
Placing Fathers At
The Bottom

WASHINGTON, NOV. ~:
(ipzllMLegislation to put
m .,re'yar fathers at the bot IT.
p pic, If the draft list won IL
p 1oiIl congressional approval to-
l dsr' 'i in the face Of an "a as ser
o o:o, nv ". Chairman Paul V. Nc
, yntt ', Of the War Manpower
GGomn,ission that it is "sabo-
t tarn Of sound administra-
t t;ann Of the manpower pro-
sf7 The bill, sent to the White
uo l,e by the Senate, places
fathers Of children born be-
t fore Sept. Is, 1912, in a ma
+ +;nua1 pool, and declares that
r none Of them shall be induct-
I aJ i a A. no1l-father is available
f ior call a by any local draft
hoard anywhere in the coun-
Try
Two or Three Months
Senator Johnson Cd. : Coloo, a
oeAa'9' 4ho cenate-Hollse con-
. .ar.rss committee that drew up
t .Ss lesjsation in final form, est.
ms,sd that the net effect would
I ns ~ pospone the drafting of some
fathers tor"tvo or three months.
l' some Senators questioned that
if would have any practical effect
m tbe drafting Of fathers, how
oror because Of an sc s C p re
cause written into the measure
at the request of selective service
officials.
This clause provides that draft
inc of fathers shall be delayed
only 50 long as it does not inter-
fpre with the usual regular and
orderly flow of the nations man.
mower into the armed forces.
Strips McNutt
The bill. which strips Commits
sioner McNutt of supervisor au-
taority he has exercized over Sc
loctive service, and also creates
medical commission to review
Army and Navy physical stand
ards, faces an uncertain reception
al the White House in view Of
authoritative reports that McNutt
Would ask President Roosevelt to
veto it.
In a letter which Senator john
son read to the Senate, McNutt
declared the legislation destroyed
The migration of military and CT
Villain manpower ALLEGATION provid-
eli for by the President when he
placed Selective Service under Nc
Nuts Jurisdiction by executive Or
der late in 1912
1T is a sabotage of sound ad-
lainiStration," McNutt wrote. Let
US hope that if it is passed, the
Presidents critics will not then at
tack him on the ground that 'ad-
illustrative responsibility is dl-
Iided'"
McNutt also said that the pro-
vision placing all draft authority
Under the director of Selective
Service would tear apart the re-
l&tlonship which has been estab-
n n and would seriously weaken
me manpoWer program"
In addition to abolishing Nc
Nuts Selective Service authority
the bill nullifies the War Man.
power Commissions so called
work Or fight order that placed
certain types Of workers in mon
oelerable' group subject to i'm
mediate induction regardless OF
dependents.
Il Senator Wheeler D.-Mont.), au.
Cof Of the original anti-fathers
uIalt pll! out of which the com.
t'omlse legislation grew said he
n u.ougnt the bill as passed, although
s s',o. enurely suitable, could pro.
II cue a falrer administration Of
S we Service than we have
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Claims Recapture
Of Aegean Isle OF Samos

LONDON Nov. 22-(P-Reconquest of Samos-last
Aegean island of consequence held by the Allies OFT Iur
key was claimed tonight by the Germans but this sue
made only rent in the storm cloud of Allied power
gathering and rising the Balkans.
Samos, Greek island has not been mentioned by the
Allied command but it had in effect been lost since
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harbOr of Fins during
which Aussies kill. 50 Japa-
nese.
The communique also re-
ported the destruction of 19,OOO
tons of shipping in the south
and southwest Pacific.
Liberators sank a 4,000-ton
snip Off Durcn new Uamea
and probably sank an 5000 ton
ship off Iavieng, New Ire
land.
On the west central coast OF
BougainviIIe wnere the Japa-
nese are opposing extension of
the American beachhead at
Empress Augusta bay, Ameri-
can divebombers and torpedo
bombers have torn into this
resistance with 81 tons of ex-
plOsiveS.
The Jap airforce also got in
some more blows there, inflict-
ing minor damage on shipping
and some casualties.
On the south central coast OF
New Britain, Liberators for the
second straight day have deliv-
cred a heavy attack On the
Gasmata air base area, hit
ting supply dumps with 49 tons.
More than $50 tons were drop
ped in the previous attack.
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Australian Jungle
Troops Drive Ahead
TOWARD Sattleberg

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Tues
day, Nov. 23.-tR-AuStralianS
have punched their way
through dense jungles and stiff
resistance to within half a mile
Of japanese entrenched ia
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