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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
ROAD GROUP ASKS
DIM0UT CHANGES
Partial Lifting OF Parking
Light Ban To Be Urged
For State

RALEIGH, Aug. 49, Up The
North Carolina Highway and Pub
lie Works Commission will k
Governor Broughton to recommend
20 the Council of State a partial
lifting of the dim-out ban now in
effect in coastal areas of North
Carolina, Charles Ross, general
counsel for the commission, said
today.
Ross said that an agreement was
reached at meeting today of At
torney General Harry MCMILLAN,
T. Boddie Ward. motor vehicles
commissioner, and R. L. McMil-
Ian, director of the Office of Ci-
vllian Defense. at which sugges-
tons were made for amending the
d1m-out regulations to conform
with those now in force under
Army supervision.
The commission will recommend
10 the governor, Ross said, that
The parking light restriction now in
effect on all vehicles operating
within 10 miles of the sea be lifted
and substitute regulations allow
ing the use of restricted head
lamps be instituted.
Under present Army regulations,
motor vehicles may use tn r
headlamps, provided the u p p e r
half of the lens is blacked out and
the lights are ''dimmed" or de-
pa essed. Formerly, only parking
lights were allowed within h e
coastal area.
Ross said that the 15-mile-per
lour speed limit would also be
lifted, allowing motor vehicles to
operate to the maximum 35-mlle-
per-hour speed limit in effect IN
other areas of the state. However,
no automobiles may be parked on
highways in the dim-out zone II
lights of the vehicles are turned
toward the sea.
In reference to residential and
commercial lighting in the area,
Ross said the commission would
recommend tnat interior lights OF
buildings used for residential or
commercial purposes shall be
shaded or otherwise controlled Ell
ther at the source of light or at
the openings of the buildings so
as not to be visible from any point
outside the building.
In addition all exterior lights
ard lighted signs must be blacked
cut or shaded so that they will not
| be visible beyond distance OF
SO feet from source of the lights.
Lt.-Gen. Hugh A. Drum, com.
1nander of the Eastern Defense
Command of the First Army, re-
Gently lifted the parking-ight ban
in the dim-out area, and the state
ection today was made to conform
with the new Army regulations.
The states dim-out regulations
we're promulgated by Governor
Eroughton in his second war-poW,
ers proclamation, and contormeo
with the Army regulations then IN
effect.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
Walter Lippmann Says:
American People Must
Haze Job To Be Happy

tie schedules called for some 5000
planes, and we got 1878. We are
not faced with sensa-
tional drop in production, but with
the problem of achieving in the
next few months a still more SEN
cational rise in production.
The problem can be solved by
being honest fair, lucid and def
mite with ourselves, with the man.
sgers, the aircraft workers, the
civilian and Uniformed officials and
with the people. We shall then
say the single truth: that they
are performing wonders and we in
tend to help them perform even
greater wonders.
Let us begin by seeing the state
o. American war production as a
whole. Only then can we do with
our eyes open what the aircraft
program calls for. The basic fact
IS that, broadly speaking, all
branches of war production, ex-
cept aircraft, are now fully devel-
cred on their ultimate basis. We
are getting all the ships, the tanks,
guns, ammunition, vehicles a n d
otner equipment that our military
PLANS call for. Never before have
Americans gone to war with such
arms as they have Today, and we
are snide if we are not profoundly
g, ateful to the men who have
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
TIN CAN SALVAGE
HEAD APPOINTED
Henry Sternberger Named
To Lead Campaign For
Scrap Collection

Henry Sternberger was appoint
cd by the local salvage committee,
in session Friday afternoon at OCD
headquarters, to head a tin can
collection drive, and has been re-
quested to submit his plans early
rext week, according to J. M. Butt,
Ir., Chairman of the committee.
Mr.. Sternberger is expected to
get the metal campaign under way
81 ortly.
Renewed interest in the drive
was taken when Col. Adam E.
Fotts, commander of Camp Davis,
recently advised the Star : News
that Camp Davis was willing to
cooperate in every way possible to
see that tin cans, saved for many
months by Wilmington housewives,
were collected. He pointed ou
tt at the Armv has been religiously
saving the tin and shipping it to
he proper plants for processing.
City officials have explained that
employees of the sanitary depart
ment nave been so deluged with
garbage collections that they have
been unable to handle the extra
duties incident to collecting the tin.
Meanwhile, local citizens are
said to nave accumulated m a n y
boxes of tins in the hope that a
method would be devised for col
iecting them
The cans must be thoroughly
cleaned. the top and bottom de-
tached, and crushed, to render
trem useful, Mr. Butts explained.
Inaugurating the new campaign
the Carolina theater last week ad-
mitted youths to special Satur-
Gay morning show for the price OF
len tin cans. Two thousand pounds
we're collected.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
AMERICAN CHIEFS OF STAFF
ARRIVE IN QUEBEC FRIDAYS
PARLEY MAY BEGIN SHORayl
Cafes Indicate App :
OF Meatless Day IL s
OPA District Food Rationing Officer Says
Survey May Request More Meat For Will
mlngton; Will Benefit Consumers Here

Approximately so restaurant op.
orators, at a meeting called Fri.
day afternoon by the Chamber O,
Commerce, in the superior court.
room, slgnified their approval Of
9 "meatless day. for Wilmington
eating establishments at least one
Gay week.
A committee composed of oper-
ators of the Dixie cafe, H & w.
Cafeteria, Friendly cafeteria, and
Crystal restaurant was named to
study the possibilities of such
plan and to present suggestions to
city officials and the Chamber of
Commerce within the near future.
The meatless day idea had
unqualified sanction of R. Bruce
Roberts. OPA district food ration
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
GREATER SECURITY
URGED BY M'NUTT
FSA Chief Calls For Broad
ening OF Social lnsur-
ance Program

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.- H -
Federal Security Administrator
F'aul V. McNutt called for a
broadening of the social insurance
program today in a statement re-
calling that tomorrow would mark
the eighth anniversary of the So
cial Security Act.
"On the basis Of eight years
experience" he said, 'we should
now prepare Cor postwar readjust-
ments as well as for the perma-
nent economic security of all the
American people"
McNut1 expressed conviction that
workers, in order to get the greater
benefits he said would flow from
an expanded program: such as pro-
posed by the Social Security Board,
would be willing to pay perhaps
Gouble the three percent now de-
dlcted from their pay checks to
felp finance the present program.
McNutt summarized the changes
recommended by the Security
board as:
Establishment of single uni
fled national contributory social in
surance system to provide insur-
ance protection for all wage and
salary earners and their families
against the hazards of unemploy-
ment, temporary and permanent
disability, costs of hospital care,
ca age, and death of the bread
winner. Self employed persons
would be included under all the
provisions of this system except
those relating to temporary dis
bility and unemployment"
Reviewing operations of the pres
ent program, McNutt said:
More than 60, 900, 900 workers in
industry and commerce have earn
ec wage credits which count to-
ward payments under the federal
o'o-age and survivors insurance
program. Tofal payments amount
ed to $3.50, ,OOO,0o0 from 1887 to June
20 of this year although only small
1ump-s.lm benefits were payable
prior to 1940'
He also reported that though un-
employment insurance payments to
toe workers over periods of tenn
rorary joblessness have radically
dc clined since the peak month Of
June 1910, wren more than 1,200,-
600 workers drew unemployment
benefits totaling over $53. 900, 900, .
a weekly average of 100,256 work
e1s drew payments totaling nearly
Sc, 900, 900 in June of this year.
Some 4O,nG0000 workers a e
now covered Ey unemployment in
surance," he said. more than $2,-
60, 900, 900 has been paid to un-
employed workers through June 80
although benefits were not payable
in all states until 1939"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
ROME AND BERLIN BLASTED
AS MILAN AND TURIN HIT:
ALLIES CAPTURE RANDAZZO
Smoke And Fire BillOW
Over The Eternal Citv

the weight of Allied might.
The Littoric yards were at
tackled by two waves of Nit
chells and three waves of Ma
RAIDERS. The biggest explosion
was believed the result of a
heavy bomb hitting an oil
storage tank.
The strong fighter opposition
contrasted with the lack of en-
emy resistance in the first raid
but there were no losses this
time. Five out of 500 planes
failed to return last month.
Precision bombs from Fly
ing Fortresses crashed through
the roofs and hangers of ad-
ministration buildings.
The crews were unanimous
In reports that no damage was
done to Rome outside of the
railroad yards and airdromes
which had been set as objec-
tives.
II did not see one bomb out
side the target area" said
Flying Officer Robert Butler,
of Staples, Minn., a Marauder
pilot. "When our Marauders
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
VIOLENT FIGHTING
Pivotal Axis Stronghold
Falls To Hard Driv-
ing Invaders
TAORMINA IS MENACED
Germans In Frenzied Flight
Along Road Between
Two Cities
TAORMINA IS MENACED

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Aug. 13.-(P)-Hard-d driving
Allied troops today stormed
and captured Randazzo, piv-
otal Axis stronghold in the
heart of the northeast Sicily
front, after U. S. soldiers had
smashed through a desperate
German rearguard in violent
hand-to-hand fighting.
The middle of the fast : di-
minishing Axis defense lines
on the Messina bridgehead
suffered total collapse as the
American Seventh Army
lunged into the highland town
from the west and the north,
followed by British troops
smashing up from the south.
Many Nazis Captured
Although most of the German
defenders tried to struggle east
ward to the coast in the vicinity
of Taormina, ace German grena-
diers. in big numbers, were be-
Ieved to be facing capture in the
area. At the same time, British
troops menaced the Taornina area
as they thundered up from the
south along the coast on the 9TH
er side of Mount Etna.
All along a 20-mile road from
Randazzo to Tarmina, the Ger
mans were in frenzied flight, with
Allied troops at their heels.
The Americans reached the ruin
ed citys edge by nightfan yester-
day. The German rearguard en-
gagged them and after a savage
hand-to-hand fight the Yanks
rushed into the sheH-and-bomo
torn town at 9:35 a. m. 1885 a. m.
EWT) today.
The conquest of Randazzo was
likened to the capture of Tunis in
the African campaign because 1t
smashed open the few remain
ing communicate lines available
to the Axis forces, and threw the
Germans back toward their final
narrow peninsular foothold in ST.
cily opposite the toe OF the Italian
boot.
At the same time U. S. and Brit
ish troops were pushing hard upon
the German flanks within 80 miles
of Messina at some coastal points.
The conquest Of Randazzo, about
80 airline miles southwest OF Mes
sina, sped the German evacuation
of Sicily and hastened the end OF
the five-week old campaign, for
the Allies now had squeezed the
length of the front to less than 80
miles.
The bulk of the German armies
was reported in flight to southern
Italy across the Messina strait.
Axis prisoners in squads, ,pla-
toons and companies struggled in,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14

LONDON, Aug. 13.-lRERussian
tt oops battered their way to within
mile of Kharkov, captured 60
hamlets in their rush on Bryansk,
and opened a third summer Of
fensive aimed at vital Srolensk on
the central front with a drive that
cut wide swa.hes in the German
lines and gained up to 13 miles
in three days, Moscow announced
tonight.
The attack on Kharkov neared
its final stages as the Red army
swept on through German defend
crs to capture more than 80 towns
and villages, including Bolshaya
Danilovka, the first suburb out Of
Kbarkov on the Kharkov river.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
U. S. IS CAREFUL
IN PACIFIC WAR
Forces Advancing Toward
Bairoko Use Life-Sav-
ing Methods
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. Il
Saturday - United States
forces advancing toward Bairoko
harbor on New Georgia island evi-
IDENTIFY are using the same time.
spending tactics to conserve Amer
lean lives that they did in captur-
ing the nearby Munda air base a
week ago.
Munda was taken by means Of
repeated bombings, naval bonn.
bardments, sea blockade and
slow, but methodical advance OF
soldiers and marines.
The Bairoko attack against the
only remaining enemy garrison on
New Georgia island is following
the same general plan. The Japa-
nese at that Kula gulf base, 107
rliies north Of Munda, are encir-
cied by land and blockaded by sea.
1t took weeks instead Of days
tc occupy Munda because the high
command decided to spend time
rather than men and let the Japa-
nese get hungrier and weaker ev-
cry day. The same thing appar-
emily is true of the present cam
raign.
The commanders are using
planes for incessant bombing of
the enemy strong points instead
of spending waves of men through
the jungle mire to face the auto
matte weapons of the Japanese.
The basic pattern is to work them
over with stunning shower of
powder and metal and then 60
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
NO TRACE FOUND
OF FLEEING men
Officers Seek Six Missing
From County Penal
Institutions

No traces had been found late
Friday night of the six Negroes
who fled the county Jail and the
juvenile detention home here
Thursday night although local law
enforcement officers expressed
the belief that the six were hiding
out around town."
Deputy Sheriff Marion T. Ross
county jailor, said that the three
Negroes who got away from the
county Jail were all TRUSTEES, useo
to work around the Jail.
All three, he said, were made
TRUSTEES to serve out the sentences
imposed on them in superior anc
recorders courts here and none o.
the three were under bond await
ing trial.
The six escapes Thursday made
total of eight from New Hanover
penal institutions this week, two
Negro women having escaped from
the county farm by climbing ovel
fence earlier in the week.
The jailor identified the three
whom he said walked away
from the Jail, as Nathaniel Davis
William Crump and Norman l.
Martin.
Originally indicted for rape, Da
Wis, Ross said, was serving nine
month sentence imposed on him
after a superior court jury had
convicted him of assault on fe.
male, plus a l2-month suspended
sentence which had been revoked
when Davis was convicted OF the
assault count.
Crump, he said, was serving Il
months for assault, imposed or
him as the result of fracas IN
the Dixie Cafe, several months
ago, where Crump was employed
as a dishwasher.
Martin, the jailer said, was
serving six month term for the
temporary larceny of an automo-
bile.
The county's policy, according to
Mr.. Ross, is to use TRUSTEES Tor
work around the Jail and the
courthouse as elevator boys, janl'
tors and in other capacities.
The TRUSTEES, he said, are or
call "a hours a day and it is i'm
possible to keep them under con-
slant surveillance.
The juveniles were Henry Her
ring, 13, Lloyd Thompson, Is dno
Alex Parker, Jr., Is, who were ar
rested this week by Officer E. B
Murray on charges of storebreak
ing, larceny and receiving.
Herring, according to Officer
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
MacArthur's Bombers
Virtually Wipe Out
Salamaua Air BASE

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIF-
&c, Saturday, August 14.-R-
Japan's menaced air base at
Salamaua, New Guinea, has
been laid in ruins and its key
portion built out on an 18TH
mus ''has virtually ceased to
exist" as the result of a 177-
ton bombardment by heavy
and medium Allied planes,
General Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
The shattering air blow was
the latest in a series which
have dealt more than 1000
tons of explosive and incen-
diary bombs on that northeast
ern New Guinea base of the
enemy.
Announcement of the destruc-
tive aerial thrust was coupled
with another of a new advance
of a mile at the other end OF
the 750-mile battle arc in the
Pacific against the last foot
hold of the Japanese on New
Georgia island at Bairoko har-
Dor.
Resuming 8 Solomons aerial
offensive after a brief lu1l
caused by bad weather, fight
er-escorted heavy bombers de-
stroyed or severely damaged
30 out of AZ Japanese bombers
and fighters caught on the en-
emy's big airdrome at Kahili
on Bougainville island. In ad-
dition, the American fighter
planes took on 30 intercepting
enemy fighters and shot down
IL. Only two of our fighters
were lost and one of the pilots
was rescued.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. Is.
-(P)-Smoke and fire billowed
over historic Rome today as
American warplanes in their
second raid of the war on the
capital poured more than 500
tons of bombs on military OBJ
jectives without the loss of
q single plane.
Dizzy sky battles ragged over
the city during this second
raid as between 40 and so
fighters attempted to halt the
all-American assault, but the
young fliers pressed their at
tack home with precision &C.
curacy.
Crewmen reported seeing
tremendous explosions and
smoke surging upwards to
more than 5000 feet as the
Allies resumed their attempt
to bomb Italy into submission
by destroying the railroad
yards and airfields in the Rome
area.
Locomotive and repair shops
at San Lorenzo yards were
repeatedly hit while the rail-
road yards of Littorio also felt
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
Red Army Now One Mile
Observation-Disclosures

The city, almost encircled, was
pounded by Russian artillery on
the west, the north and the east.
The Red army attacks gained from
4 IL to 1-2 miles during the day
on the grea: semi-circle around
the city.
Three major Russian offensives
row ragged along 500 miles Of front,
seeking to crack the entire Ger
man line across Russia at its key
points.
The drive upon Smolensk Gen.
tered around the town of Spas De-
mensk on an important rail line
running east from Smolensk. Spas
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14

driving In IL Northeastern states.
Bowles said 1t may be lifted Sept. l
If the restrictions on such driving
are observed the balance of this
month.
The announcements were issued
i.urried1y by OPA because OF in
formation leaks in the Midwest.
eviodsly it had been planned to
make the disclosures over tn e
weekend. The cut in the Midwest
and Southwes:. Bowles said, was
made Ito reduce gasoline con
sunpti on'' in those areas.
Speaking of the Eastern prohibi'
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
SOu1mued on Page Five; Col. s.
OPA Cuts Gas Coupon
Value In Western Area

III
w WASHINGTON, Aug. 49, @-
t;ns s of1lce Of Price Administra-
gsso,! On !onlght slashed the value of
snJ 0stlie coupons in the Midwest
eyur u southwest from to 3 gallons,
..s4 teSSed a hope" that the North
h. h'1eln Nt. pleasure driving ban can
Aone,,, ,'eu y, sept l, and a further
,4r ~ nat the East Coasts mea-
=. .ss+a gas ratioas may be increased
'Tser Th In Sel>tember."
vest e ration reduction in the Mid
.4fos.:a s ana Southwest will become
vas vs an at l2,o1 am. Monday, it
s'tina fl announced by Chester Bowles.
s Copspr price administrator.
''iceFnlng the ban on pleasure
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14
Use SAME TARGETS
Italian Railway Yards Are
Again Pounded By Heavy
Raiding Force
mo AMERICAN LOSSES
Fliers Again Given Instruc-
ton To Avoid Religious
Buildings

LONDON, Aug. 13.-(P--
Rome was bombed again to-
day by perhaps 500 Ameri-
can planes after a British
night attack on Berlin and
the heaviest Raj assault
yet made on the northern
Italian cities of Milan and
Turin.
Waves of African-based
Flying Fortresses, Mitchells
and Marauders showered
their bombs on the San Lo-
renzo and Littorio railway
yards of the Italian capital,
the same targets which an
American force of 700 planes
partially wrecked July 19.
Again the fliers struck just
before noon after minute in
structions to avoid religious
or cultural targets in the city
which is the seat of the Ro-
man Catholic church.
Some of the lighter bomb
ers skinned in at low levels,
low enough to pour tracers
into the smoking rail estab-
lishments which form strate-
gic bottlenecks for war sup
plies to German and Italian
trops in Sicily and southern
Italy. The weight of explo-
sives was said at Allied head
quarters in North Africa to
have equalled the LOO tons
dropped in the first raid.
There was no mention OF Am
erican losses.
Pope Visits Areas
The Rome radio said Pope Plus
XII. who also is bishop OF Rome.
visited the bombed areas after the
raiders left.
A suggestion the Allied aerial
offensive had extended into virgin
territory came late today from the
Rerlin radio This report d
.nemy plants flew over south
west Hungary. No bombs were
reported to have fallen.
The first Rome bombing was ex-
ecuted when Mussolini was holding
Ills 18th and last conference with
hitler in northern Italy. Shortly
afterwards, he fell from power.
The new attack, coupled with
lhe unprecedented smashes at tur-
brlent Milan and Turin in t n q
north, was interpreted as an Allied
demonstration to the Badogllo gov
ernnent that Italy indeed would
be Scared, scared and blacken-
ed from end to end' as Prime
Minister Churchill promised. if she
cid not surrender and oust the Ger
mans.
The Ar Ministry said that more
than 1,120 tons of bombs were
cropped on Milan alone last night
and that the attack in the north
was "in greater strength than ever
before" Seven bombers W h i h
SCARED across the Alps from Brit
am were lost Of the mighty ar
mada of probably 1000 raidina
planes.
Turin also received heavy load
OF bombs. Besides cradling such
war potentials as the Fiat Aero
engine factories, the Italian royal
arsenal and chemical and other
Plants, Turin is an important rail-
way junction through which traffic
with Germany must pass.
The attack on Berlin, the 68th
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-14

ing officer, who pointed out that
it is working satisfa ctorily in sew
e1al other North Carolina cities.
Mr.. Roberts told the restaurant
men that his organization will
shortly present a survey to Wash
ington authorities that will likely
request larger meat allotments for
Wilmington, but indicated that if
such allotments are granted they
are expected to benefit the home
consumer VINO is unable to find
meat in the sores, rather than the
restaurateur who claims that he
needs more ration points.
The OPA official warned against
the closing Of eating establishments
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