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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
PISA SHUDDERS
UNDER BOMBING
Mighty Blow Delivered By
Fortresses On Italian
Rail System
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 1.-(R -
Suddenly switching their hammer
assaults to northern Italy, U. S.
Flying Fortresses delivered a
mighty blow to vital railroad yards
at Pisa of leaning tower fame
yesterday. while Britain's big bat
tleships Nelson and Rodney led a
thunderous Smelling of the western
Italian toe.
The Fortresses. on 1,0o0-mile
roundtrip. poured bombs onto the
center of freight yards at Pisa
and the electrified system capable
of handling at least 90 trains daily
between Rome and Genoa. and
also hit the nearby San Guisto
airfie1d and Piaggio aircraft fac
tory.
Pisa lies ITO miles nor t h of
Rome. The raid gave northern
Italy dose of the concentrated
destruction poured for days on
rail facilities and airdromes in
the southern part of the peninsula.
The famous tower, completed in
1850, and other historic monuments
were spared by the bombers.
These latter assaults meanwhile
continued with medium bombers
and fighter bombers attacking Sa-
lerno, Cosenza, Catanzaro, Sapri
and Cetraro, and American Lib
orators from the Middle Ea S
smacking Pescara on the eastern
coast opposite Rome.
Leading the cruiser Orion and
nine destroyers, the Nelson and
Rodney boldly steamed into the
southern end of the Messina strait
and bombarded Italian coastal de :
tense batteries with their 16-inch,
one-ton shells, meeting only feeble
shore resistance. The Warships
also snelled the area near Reggie
Calabria and near Cape Pellaro.
They knocked out at least one big
enemy coastal gun.
The shift in strategy for the
Fortresses appeared highly effec-
tive. The unescorted heavy bomb
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
Whiteuille Attorney
To Teach Swimming
In Caribbean Area

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Sept. /. -
Lee ]. Greer, former county judge
of Columbus county and resident of
Whiteville, N. c., has been sent
to the Caribbean area by the Amer
lean Red Cross to teach classes in
wartime functional swimming,
first aid and water safety, both
to civilians and the American mill
tary and Naval personnel.
Judge Greer, who is 80, has a
long record of sports and Red
Cross activity back of him. At the
University of North Carolina, from
which he graduated in 1885, he
won distinction in swimming.
Later, he swan thirty miles up
Cape Fear river from Southport
to Wilmington-the only person to
accomplish that feat. He was chair
man of Life Saving and Water
Safety of the Columbus County
Chapter, American Red Cross, and
of the North Carolina Corps OF
Life Saving Examiners.
The type of swimming which
Greer and his water-safety asso-
ciates are teaching is a course
especially designed by the Amer
lean Red Cross to instruct and
train persons of military age in
the aquatic skills needed in war
time
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
Powerful American Naval Task Force
BombSrds Japanese Held Marcus Isle;
GexzE1n Taganrog Army Is Liquidated
Roosevelt $1urchiU War
Talk Resumed In Capital

WASHINGTON, Sept. l. (P -
War discussions which President
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
adjourned in Quebec eight days
ago were resumed here tonight
with the emphasis, apparently, on
greater collaboration with Russia.
The British prime minister, ac-
companied by Mrs. Churchill,
reached Washington late in the
Gay on a fourth war time visit.
Official silence prevailed on the
channels into which he and Mr..
Roosevelt were directing their con-
versations but there was evidence
that the Allied leaders would cen
ter large share of their attention
on the means of attaining closer
military and political relations
with the Soviet Union.
Churchill arrived by spe a |
train from Quebec, where, in a
broadcast yesterday, he invited
Joseph Stain to join with himself
and the President later in a three
way conference, and spoke of An
glo-American Russian talks as
most necessary and urgent
The stress he laid on collabo-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
TAUNT IS HURLED
Nipponese Navy Practical
ly Dared To Come Out
And Fight
TOKYO APPREHENSIVE
Radio Declares That u. s.
Units Could Have Raid
ed Mainland

WASHINGTON, Sept. L.
P-In a direct threat to the
security Of t h e Japanese
homeland, a powerful task
force of the United States
Navy has bombed and SHE'LL
ed Marcus island, outpost
guarding the approaches to
Tokyo.
The audacious raid, in
which the Americans virtual
ly dared the Japanese home
fleet to come out and fight.
obviously had a strong psy-
Geological impact on the Japa-
nese. for the Tokyo radio said:
"The enemy could have
raided the mainland if he
wanted to, so the people of
Japan must further solidify
the defense against the enc
my"
First word of the raid on
Marcus, only 1900 miles from
Tokyo, came from a broad
cast Japanese communicate,
which said the island was at
tackled at dawn September l
August 81, Washington
time. 1t declared that "many
enemy planes raided Minaml-
tou Shima (Marcus) at dawn
Today, and the enemy shelled
the land by naval guns"
Confirmed By Navy
This report was substantially
confirmed by a Navy statement
here a few hours later. 1t said
that carrier task force raid had
been planned against Marcus Tor
September 1 and sis presumably
in progress"
Whether the phrase Sin pro-
gress' meant that the island was
still being battered today or SIM
ply that maneuvers following the
assault were considered part OF
it was not explained. No details
were expected from American
sources for many hours since Of
ficers said the force would not
break radio silence until it was
safe to do so.
Marcus island, which the Japa-
nese own, lies 900 miles northwest
of enemy-held Wake island 1t is
an air and radio base and because
of its strategic location holds domi-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
ARMY CLARIFIES
coming DECREE
Public Proclamation Num-
Der S Does Not Change
Status At Beach

Public Proclamation No. five,
Headquarters Eastern D f n
Command, August 9, 1943 does
not, in effect, change the status
of protection afforded by the Army
in Wrightsville Beach and Caro-
lima Beach. This announcement
was made on Wednesday by 1t.
Col. VIM. J. Sutton, commander
Of the combat team, Carolina
Beach.
This proclamation, in conformity
with action previously taken in
other places in the Eastern De.
tense Command, states that the
area seward of line parallel
to and one hundred yards west Of
the line of mean high tide of the
Atlantic Ocean in the o WINS Of
Wrightsville Beach and Carolina
Meach is within the restricted
area. The remainder of each town
is not within the restricted area.
Regulations contained in previous
proclamations when applied to
this rule state that public roads,
boardwalks, residences, h o Is,
and other public or private build
ings are not considered to be with
in the restricted area, but egress
from said buildings seaward shall
not be made during the hours be-
tween sunset and sunrise.
To specifically define the re-
s:ricted area in Wrightsville Beach
it is that area seward of the
eastern line of North Lumina Az.
enue and South Lurnina Avenue.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02

tlllery in the Boulogne area hurl-
ed shells across the channel.
The British Air Ministry said
great damage" was inflicted on
Berlin, although clouds and great
fires set by the British and Ca
madam airmen prevented assess
ment of the full results. Berlin.
however, acknowledged consider
able damage"
A tWo-hour parade of Raj
planes across the British coast line
preceded the saturation attack on
Killers capital, where the word
was given four years ago for the
invasion of Poland. The frs t
planes over the capital opened
their bomb bays at 1870 pm.
and the cascade continued into
the morning of another year of
war.
The Germans sprang new de-
tense tactic, the Air Ministry said.
But this back-fired, and possibly
accounted for less Raj losses than
the 58-plane casualty suffered in
the August % raid.
Instead of relying wholly on hun
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02

in charging beyond-ceiling prices.
The pledges will take the form
of stickers for pasting on windows.
New lists of ceiling prices will
be posted prominently in all stores
and as far as possible will be dis
tributed to consumers.
Aid of civic club and PTA group
members will be solicited in dis
seminating correct information on
rationing in an effort ito leave no
stone unturned in letting the pub
lie have the facts
Office of Price Administration
leaders at the session tressed the
point that retailers have had their
share of difficulties under the ra-
tioning program, and that under
standing on the part of the public
could well tighten the retailers
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
MIXED SIGNALS
HANDLED EASILY
Test Blackout With Scram-
bled Siren Blasts Finds
City Ready

"Scrambled'' signals provided
little difficulties for Wilmington
ians Wednesday night with homes
and business establishments observ-
ing a 55-minute blackout in which
the regular series of siren blasts
was changed.
Sheriff C. David Jones, com.
mander of the civilian defense
corps, said the Army-called drill
was exceptionally good" He re-
vealed that the air raid wardens
reported in So Incidents" the
highest number yet reached in a
blackout here, and said that emer-
gency units We're dispatched by the
county control room.
What may develop into a test
case of the city's blackout ordi-
nance, adopted in January, 1912
occurred during the blackout when
Clarence Bellamy stanland, of 1o4
South Sixth street, a 46-year-old
department store clerk, was ar
rested near Second and Market
streets for smoking a cigarette dur
ing the blackout.
He was recognized for his ap-
pearance before Recorder III. Win
field Smith Thursday morning.
The warrant charges that stan
land Smoked a lighted cigarette
upon the public streets Of the city
after having been warned bv a per-
son in authority to extinguish it,
in viola ton of the city blackout or
dinance.
Army observers were present
here for the blackout and June
Rose, assistant state director of CT
william defense, was scheduled to be
here but failed to arrive due to
automobile trouble.
The blackout timetable showed
that the Yellow signal went out to
protective agencies at 9:12 p. M,
the first Blue "a steady blast on
the sirens) to the general public at
9:21 p. m. the first Red "a wavering
blast at 9:46 p. M, the second Blue
at 1905 p. M, the second Red at
1908 p. M. the third Blue at 1916
p. M, and the All-Clear (three 15-
second blasts at 1926 p. m.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
Businessman Will Auction
ValuableS At Bond Rally

of the Chamber of Commerce.
Each merchant has been asked
to give some non-rationed article
from his store to be offered to
the highest bidder in War Bonds.
The articles are to be brought to
the Chamber of Commerce as soon
as possible.
Mayor Bruce B. Cameron is
slated to do the drawing for door
prizes, the most valuable of which
will be a 500 Bond contributed
by local banks. The receivers will
be the holders of lucky tickets.
The High School band will leave
the school building and march to
the front of the theater, where it
will play for 30 minutes before
the opening of the o'clock per-
Torrance.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
CASUALTIES HIGH
Nazi Troops Either
Killed Or Captured By
Russians
8 DIVISIONS MAULED
5000 More Axis Troops
Fall Trying To Stem
Drive On Stalino

LONDON, Thursday, Sept.
2-P)-The Red army adj
vancing in the Donets basin
has wiped out the German
Taganrog army, killing or
capturing more than 41,000
enemy loops and routing or
mauling eight divisions to-
falling 100000 men, Moscow
announced early today.
An additional 5000 Ger
mans fell yesterday trying to
stem Soviet armies hacking
their way toward Stalino,
Poltava,. Bryansk, and Smo-
lensk along a 600-mile front,
said a communique recorded
early today by the Soviet
monitor.
The Taganrog debacle was
the greatest single German
defeat since Stalingrad. More
than $4,000 Germans were
killed and 800 captured in
final liquidation of the enclr-
cled troops caught west OF
the Sea of Azov city, the COM
munfoue said.
withdrawing In Donets
German troops were withdraw
ing in the Donets basin - Berlin
military circles telling Swedish
correspondents that Axis fears OF
an Allied invasion in the west
prompted the retreat. German
lines also were sagging east OF
Smolensk, south of Bryansk, and
deep inside the Ukraine, the Rus
slams indicated.
The Germans, in a frantic ef-
fort to halt the wide Russian break
through beyond Taganrog, were
declared in today's Moscow COM
munique to have hurriedly shift
ed some of their inland forces
to the south.
The Russians then promptly
went over to the offensive south
west of Voroshilovgrad, punching
out gains of four to six miles to-
ward Stalino and Debaltsevo,
which lie on the network of rail-
ways feeding the Germans in the
central Donets.
Complete erasure of the collaps-
ing German Donets front appar-
emily was foreshadowed in Ber-
lin broadcast which said the Rus
SLAMS were amassing a tremen.
dous striking force along the
stretches of the middle Donets riv-
er. This area is on the roof of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
FOE AT SALAMAUA
NOW PUSHED BACK
2 Strong Positions Over
whelmed By Americans
and Australians
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Thursday,
Sept. O. R Japanese in two
strongly dug-in positions south and
southeast of the Salamaua. New
Guinea, airdrome finally h ave
been overwhelmed by American
and Australian Jungle fighters now
closing in on the enemy base.
Several days ago, Allied forces
approaching the airfield from the
west and southwest, supported by
artillery, were reported within RI
file range but today's communique
was the first in more than a week
to tell of an advance along the
coast.
dast previous advices concern
ing the right flank were that the
Japanese were holding to Dot inlet
as their only position south of the
Francisco river which flows below
the airdrome into Bayern bay).
The communicate did not elabo-
rate on the Salamaua showdown
battle but a spokesman for Gen.
Douglas Macarthur said japanese
rearguards were contesting from
long prepared positions the for
ward-moving Americans and Aus
tralians.
From ridge positions overlook
ing Salamaua, Allied artillery
commands most of the enemy S
defenses.
The sapping of the Salamaua
garrison's power to resist by sink
ing supply barges went forward
with motor torpedo boats now aug
menting bombing planes in New
Guinea coastal waters where until
recently Allied ships scarcely dar-
ed venture. Today's communique
said these light surface craft sank
IL barges in the Huon gulf, into
which the isthmus town of Sala-
maua extends, during the week
ending August 80.
Monday, airforce Mitchells, fly
ing along the south New Britain
coastline, sank 10 barges.
In the vicinity of New Ireland,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
HOSPITAL BIDS
OPENED AT MEET
City Council Appoints For
mer Mayor Vow As Act
ing Juvenile Judge,

Bids for new equipment for
Community Negro hospital, fur
nished under a Federal w o k S
agency grant with the City of Will
mington as sponsor, were opened
at a special session of the city
council Wednesday afternoon.
After the bids were opened, the
council meeting was requested I'm.
til the bids could be tabulated and
the low bidders determined. The
meeting will be convened again
to award contracts.
Juvenile Judge John c. VESSEL,
Jr., recently commissioned as a
lieutenant, junior grade, in tn e
Coast Guard, was granted 90
day leave of absence by the coun-
Gil
Edgar L. Vow, prominent attor.
ney and former mayor and city
councilman, was named acting jul
venile judge during Vessels leave
of absence.
Firms submitting bids for the
hospital equipment contracts in.
cluded Smith Drum and Co., OF
Philadelphia, Pa; Westinghouse,
of Charlotte; Aubrey L. Simpson
of Charlotte; Stearnes of Chicago,
ILL.,; Powers and Anderson Sur.
gical company of Norfolk, Va;
Winston Philip of Durham; Albert
Pick company of Chicago; John
Van Range company of Cincinnati.
ii and Winchester Surgical sup.
ply of Charlotte.
The equipment bids were IN
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
Walter Lippmann Says:
Il. s. Must Make FOREIGN
Policy Decisions Soon

cessity is to clarity our own for
eign policy. 1t is today, and has
been for more than a year, in a
most unsatisfa Glory condition. On
the one hand our pretensions have
been enormous; we have b n
claiming the right to say the last
word about the boundaries of Eu-
rope, about the character of the
provisional European governments
which are to follow the defeat of
i1it.e:, about the diplomatic rela-
tons among neighboring European
states. On the other hand, the
means behind these pretensions
are uncertain: we have an cleo
ton in 1914, we have no agreed
policy, not even in the most gen.
eralized terms, between the Ad-
ministration and Congress, we
have no formulation of the Presi-
dents purposes, and we have no
way, therefore, of saying to our
allies, or even to our enemies,
what the United States will GER
tainly do.
Our pcetensions and our power
are unbalanced, and we are I'M
able, therefore, to play effectively
the part we should play in the
diplomatic negotiations which are
now Cfider way.
The event will show, I believe,
that the President cannot make
sure Of continuing American sup
port unless, taking to heart the
lesson of Wilson's tragedy at Par
is, he first reduces his pretensions
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
Berlin Is Rocked Again
ByHundreds WBombers
Hundreds Of Raj Planes Tear Through
Heavy Fighter Screen Which Backfires
On Luftwaffe; City Left In Flames

LONDON, Sept. L. Up Hun
creds of Raj heavy bombers are
through powerful German fight
err screen last night to rock Berlin
with 45-minute deluge of block
leveling explosives that again gut
ted sections of the Axis military
heart and left flames visible 70
miles away.
The British Air Ministry indi-
Gated that this second concentrate
ed assault in eight days equalled
the 1900 ton August % blow which
wiped out entire districts in west
ern and southern Berlin, paralyzed
utility services, and sped the evac-
uation of thousands haunted by
the specter of the blackened skel-
eton of Hamburg.
Forty-seven bombers, eight of
them Canadian, and one fighter
were lost in the latest Berlin at
saults on airfields and other tar
gets in France and the Low Coun-
tires.
Today, at the beginning of the
fifth year of war, large forma-
tons of Allied planes still roared
across the Dover straits toward
France, while German heavy ar
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

Although we are advised in high
quarters not to think about such
things, the war is at stage where
it is impossible to postpone any
longer the making of fundamental
political decisions about Europe.
The terms of the armistice which
will be imposed upon Italy, upon
Bulgaria, and eventually upo n
Germany, are an organic part of
the military conduct of the war.
They cannot be improvised after
the enemy forces have surrender
ed Internationally. For the terms
of armistice with the Axis satel-
lites will determine the next phase
of the military operations against
Germany. The terms of arnistice
for Germany will fix the zones of
military occupation which will con-
troll the whole European settle
ment.
To leave these questions in abey-
ance would be the certain way to
make impossibly difficult an Or
derby settlement in Europe. With
out an orderly settlement in Eu-
rope, we and our allies will be
unable to concentrate all our fore
es against Japan. A considerable
force will be needed for diplo-
matte purposes in Europe if we
have failed to reach a satisfactory
political agreement.
In order to participate effective
ly in the pre-armistice = gotiations
with our partners the British, our
allies the Russians, and with the
United Nations, our own first ne
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02

Fred Willetts, in the role of auc-
tioneer, will sell many valuable
articles, contributed by local ner-
chants, for the price of substan-
tial War Bonds, when Whining
tonians attend the 9 o'clock show
ing of Heaven Can Wait,' at the
Bailey Theater next Tuesday
night.
The picture marks the kickoff
of the ambitious campaign to raise
Sc, O58, 600 from the sale of War
Bonds in New Hanover county dur
ing September, month # the Third
War Loan Drive. Tickets to the
performance go free to the per-
sons who buy extra bonds from
their agents at local banks, build
ing and loan associations, or any
other authorized issuing agent.
The auction will be sponsored
by the Retail Merchants division
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
Home Front Campaign
Planned By OPA Group

Members of the community
service panel of the New Hanover
War Price and Rationing board
were apprised at an OPA meet
ing in Clinton Wednesday of plans
for inaugurating ''home- front
campaign" designed to promote
wider observance of OPA regula-
tons and better cooperation be-
tween retailers and consumers.
Mrs. Julian Morton, chairman
of the local community service
panel, said that the specific goal
of the forthcoming drive was to
exact pledge of each housewife
by the terms of which she will
refuse to buy knowingly anything
above listed ceiling prices; that
she will refuse to purchase ration
ed goods without the necessary
stamps; and that she will refuse
patronage of dealers who persist
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02

ration with Russia and on a pros.
pective invasion of continental Eu-
rope for which Red spokesman
have been clamoring, accented the
idea that these were among the
primary considerations VIII C h
brought him again to Washington.
Plans for Allied arms to ham,
mer their way into Hitler's Euro
pean stronghold obviously h e
been completed, so the political
aspects of the war and of the
postwar period appeared likely to
dominate the war talks at h e
White House.
The president and prime min
lister said at Quebec that discus
sions would continue among nu-
merous interested governments on
the problem of administrations for
European countries which are to
be liberated from Axis control.
Russia would be particularly in
terested in the Balkans and in
Poland.
And, to be effective, any for
mula for lasting peace and for
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02
RECREATION PLAN
TALKED FOR CITY
Program Designed To Be
Effective Now And In
Post War Period

A general picture Of the pro-
posed Wholesale recreation pro-
gram, designed to serve Whining
ton during the emergency and
many years thereafter, wa s
sketched by new City Recreation
Director Jesse A. Reynolds before
the rect cation division of the
Council of Social Agencies at City
Hall. Wednesday afternoon.
I'VE must not lose sight of the
future in our planning" Reynolds
told the group, as he asked for
full development of all types of
recreation within the city-com-
mercial, private, and public-and
called for gradual preparation of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-02

the arlNunt OF taxi fare to Lake
Forest. was set free Immediate
ly afterwards.
He Immediately asked Judge
BaGHey for permission to shake
the hands Of each juror and thank
him personally. Failing that, he
shook hands with his defense at
tornies, David Sinclair and Aaron
Goldberg, and with Alfred T. Sur
les whom the two attornies are
defending on charges of first de-
gree murder,
Jackson's widow, who was seated
in the courtroom with a child in
her arms, had to be forcibly re-
moved from the courtroom after
she had threatened Hinson and
cried:
You think you got away with it
don't you?
Nine of the 10 jurors who vii
render a verdict in the Surles case
in which Surles is charged with
shooting his wife, Gladys Branch
Surles in the bedroom of Colon
ial Village home on June %, had
been selected by the time court re-
cessed at $3.50 p. m. Wednesday.
Solicitor Clifton L. Moore and
Attorney James King, who is aid
ing the state in prosecuting the
case, are expected to present the
1lrSt evidence against Surles Thurs
DAY.