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Evening star., 1943-03-17

member-Letters to loved
ones who are prisoners Of war
could not be sent except
through the medium of the
International Red Cross at Ge-
neva, Switzerland. The Amer
ican Red Cross Is one Of sim
liar agencies throughout the
world. all Of which clear
through the International Red
Cross. Your gift to the Red
Cross. therefore. knows no geo
graphic boundary. but operates
as a worldwide errand of
mercy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
Noted Criminologist
To Speak On Child
Delinquency In City

James M. Hepbron. prominent
criminologist. will deliver lee
ture on juvenile delinquency at
the Community Forum November
l. it was announced Tuesday night.
Mr.. Hcpbron has made an in
tensive survey of the subject of
crime and waywardness among
children, and speaks with aEthori-
ty on the subject. He is now chair
man Of the Maryland State Com
mission on Juvenile Delinquency
and has been instrumental in
stressing correction rather than
punishment for criminally inclined
youths.
The speaker will. deal epecifical-
ly with delinquency in the VIZ al
fected lands and will present the
psychological problems that have
caused this rise in child WayWard-
ness.
The Forum will convene at $3.50
pm, November l, in the High
School auditorium. Admission IS
IL cents
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
WATERW0RK BOND
ISSUES PURCHASED
100000 Finance Plan
Brings Good Interest
Rate For City

The 100000 Waterworks bond
issue of the City of Wilmington,
a part of the issues voted by citl-
zens here for WaterWorks inn
provement, was sold Tuesday
through Local Government COM
mission of Raleigh for an average
interest rate to the city of 1886
per cent, City Clerk ]. R. Ben
son said Tuesday night.
He said both local officials and
the commission were we'll pleased
with the results Of the sale. award
ed to the Union Securities cor
poration. syndicate of investors
The 1886 per cent interest rate.
he said, is practically l per cent
less than the interest rate obtain
ed on the last issue of city bonds
to be floated.
The total interest cost to the
city of the S500,000 issue, Mr..
Benson said, will be S123. 745.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
Plan To Ban u. S. Work
To Non Fathers Offered

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-(R-A
proposal to bar federal employ
ment to draft-age, able-bodied
non-fathers whose services are not
Indispensable was offered in
the Senate late today with Adj
ministration support as a substi-
tute for the Wheeler bill to post
pone the drafting of fathers until
January.
Senator Bailey D-NC), in be-
half of himself and Senator Clark
O-Mo), submitted the proposal
in an amendment which en-
braced two other provisions. They
would require:
l. That, insofar as it is "prac-
ticable," local draft boards defer
the induction of pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers until men in all other
Selective Service categories have
been taken. Married men with one
child also would be taken before
those with two or more.
.. A review by draft appeal
boards of occupational defer
ments granted by local draft
boards in communities where war
plants are located. Such reviews,
subject to appeal to the national
director of Selective Service,
would be required within 80 days.
Action on the proposal, which
Senator Wheeler D-Mont) con-
tended was largely a restatement
of present Selective Service regu-
lations, was deferred until tomor-
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row upon the request of Minority
Leader McNary of Oregon for
more time to study it.
AS the Senate focused it's at
tention on the father draft, the
House Ways and Means commit
tee received from the New York
Board of Trade a proposal for a
federal sales tax of 10 per cent
as possible substitute for the
Treasury's plan to raise addition
al taxes.
Bailey's proposal for restric-
tons on government employment
provides that no draft registrant
between IS and 80 shall be en-
ployed or remain in federal en-
ploy by reason of deferment for
occupational reasons unless he is
a pre-Pearl Harbor father or has
been certified as indispensable. !"
The certification, to be submit
ted to Congress within 80 days
must be accompanied by state
ment of the reasons why the en-
ploye is considered Indispensable.
This provision tightens the ex-
listing law by substituting ''indis-
pensable" for 'irreplaceable" and
requiring the statement of rea-
sons for such certification.
Bailey said that at the request
of General George c. Marshall,
Army chief of staff, he had aban-
doned section which would pro-
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group that none of you are being
dismissed"
mo passes are being recalled, -
the colonel declared, land all OF
you will continue to have a job
to do although it m ay be possible
to give some Of you furloughs. y
Explaining that the operations
room of the filter and information
center would continue on a "a
hour-a-day basis and that the filter
room would be placed on an in
slant alert" basis with periodic
reactivation by the volunteers,
Colonel Tigner declared:
$50 you see, it will be possible
for many Of you to continue regu-
lar shifts, although it has been
impossible for us to work out
schedule as YETI
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
ALLIES STANDING
AT RAMU VALLEY
Australians Occupy Kaigu-
lin Village In Drive
On Madang

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. We'd
nesday, Oct. 6.-CP-Austhallan
forces moving northwest of Lac
against Madang, New Guinea,
have reached the headwaters OF
the Ramu valley, General MacAr-
thur announced today in COM
munique.
The troops occupied Kaigulin
village 60 miles south of Madang.
In the Solomons theater, the Jap
anese sent so planes against Am
erican-held Vella Lavella. Inter
ceptors battled the raiders and
downed at least six.
In the central So1omons, where
the Japanese are evacuating thelr
garrison at Villa. Kolobangara,
American fighter planes have de-
stroyed four more barges and ma
val units. too More than 40 bar
ges previously were wrecked by
naval units off Choiseul and the
total destroyed since the first OF
September exceeds $50.
Allied reconnaissance units
bombed 1900 ton enemy cargo
vessel near Cape st. George, New
Ireland. and forced a smaller yes.
sci aground near the Vitu islands
in the northeast New Britain sec
tor.
Headquarters, in special re-
lease. reported receipt of congrat
ulations by the American govern.
ment Of Gen. Douglas Macarthur
for the coordination. tactics AND
celebrity exhibited in the New
Guinea campaign. Since Septen'
Der II. his trops have captured the
air bases of Salamaua, Lac and
Finschhafen.
In the inland drive against Ma.
dang which is on Astrolabe bay
northwest of captured Finschhaf
en-, troops moving up the Mark
ham valley crossed the divide into
the Ramu valley. They drove Jap
anese from positions near Kaigu'
lin before occupying the village.
Kaigulin is 40 miles south of Bo.
gadjim, Madang's defense out
post. The Australians moved on
Continued on Paue T,yo. coJ N
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FDR Calls Japs' Retreat
In SOlOmOnS A RealLOss

fleets South Pacific force com.
mander.
The announcement, made by Nj.
mitz at Honolulu, said that ''prin.
cipal members of the staffs of Ad.
mirals King, Nimitz and Halsey
also participated in the conversa-
tons, which concerned plans for
the Pacific campaign"
1t said that King, who made his
first visit to the Pacific action the
alter since the war started, and
Halsey had returned to their head
quarters latter conferences at
Pearl Harbor" with Nirnitz.
The President said at his press
radio conference that he felt too
little significance has been attach
ed at home to the blows dealt the
Japanese. He declared that the
Continued on Page Five; ca. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
New Filter Center Setup
Explained Volunteers

me operation of the Wilmington
n1i'iF information and filter cen
y. oh the new de-activated basis
"as explained to several hundred
s!'lllan volunteers of the center
meeting in the mess hall of
toS' headquarters of the Whining
.a'l ar region here Tuesday night
Ave- Mhlcn % persons were awarded
"o wings and awards of merit
1--we officials appearing on the
PP-O9 ram including Mayor Bruce
,-o,. cameron, praised the staff of
soi0h'eers for the work the have
'o5e over the past two wears
revealing that the active VOL
t Tu'eer roll of the center was at
"Ie highest point in it's history
W Mlieh the War department order
" " oeactlvate was received, I,ieut :
T ina oscar c. Tigner, command
'"s 0illcer Of the WAR, told the
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to retain Ille lStdlQ IL llloy
have retaken it as Berlin
claims.
But just where Coo island,
tiny strip Of land some 70 miles
long by SIX miles wide, figures IN
Allied offensive plans is far from
clear. The smaller but better
equipped island of Leros, some go
miles farther north in the Dode-
canese group and still British
held, is a better air stepping
stone up the eastern Aegean. 1t
is known to have good land and
seapiane facilities as against
Coos more limited air installa-
tons.
In Nazi eyes, at least, Coo prob
ably represented a British begin
ming on the business of recaptur-
ing the great Greek island of
Crete, primary Nazi bastion
guarding the approaches to the
Aegean, Coo lies 100 miles or less
northeast of Crete. In Allied hands
it represented a base for fighter
planes assigned to blast a way
back to Crete.
The fact that Crete is out of
range for fighters from the south
shore of the Mediterranean large
ly led to the British disaster on
Crete when Nazi forces overran
it in the first major air-borne
invasion of the war.
Allied-Italian seizure of Geo also
represented very close threat
to tie largest island of the Dode-
canese group, Rhodes, so miles
to the southeast. Light British air
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YUC0SLAVS TAKE
LUSSIN0 ISLAND
258 German Officers And
Men Captured In
Two-Day Fight

LONDON, Oct. 5.-tP-Yugoslav
naval units-joining in the cam
paign of the peoples liberation
army to wrest the Dalmatian coast
from the Nazis-havr captured the
island of Lussino. strategically To-
Gated so miles southeast of the
italian naval base of Pola, a COM
munique broadcast today by the
free Yugoslav radio announced
The broadcast. recorded here by
Reuters, said the Partisan naval
units participated in two day
fight to capture the Italian island
and took 258 German officers and
men prisoners. (Reuters first re-
ported the island to be Lofinj, but
later corrected it to Losinj. which
is the same as Lussino.) The Lon
don Yugoslav government which
is not connected with the liber-
alton army, was unable to verify
the capture of the island.
Lussino. one of a string of is
lands lying along the Yugoslav
coast. poses a direct threat to
Pola, the italian northeast Adriatic
base 80 miles due south of Trieste.
Capture of the town of Prijepolje
on the river Linn in Montenegro
also was reported in the ommuni-
que.
AS these Yugoslav patriot ad-
vances were made against h e
Axis, the rivalry between General
Draja Mihailovic and the Monte
negrin leader Josip Broz, popu-
larly known as Tito" was high
lighted with a charge issued here
by the latter's supporters that Gen.
Mihailovic was collaborating with
the Germans.
A group calling itself ''the as
sociation of Yugoslav journalists
in London issued a statement as
sorting that all the present fight
ing against the Nazis in Yugo-
slavia is being waged by the peo-
Piles liberation army under Tito
The group charged that Gen.
Mihailovic's detachments still col
laborate with the Germans and
(CroaD Ustachis.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
FRANKFORT TORN
BY Raj ASSAULT
Strong Forces OF Bombers
Crack At Other Ger
man Targets

LONDON. Oct. s. LR Strong
forces of Raj bombers punched
at least six German industrial cit
les last night in a fourth successive
night of furious aerial onslaught
and left the big city of Frankfurt
torn and shaken by its second raid
in IL hours, and its heaviest OF
the war.
Frankfurt n d LudWigshaven
were the only cities specifically
mentioned in the official British
report of the nights operation,
which also spoke of the Rhineland
in general, but the sorely beset
Nazis in a communique filled in
the details: tn ey acknowledged
heavy destruction to Frankfurt and
said Mannheim NudWigshaven S
twin city,, Worms. Offenbach and
Saarlautern were also raided by
terror" bombers.
More than so tons of high ex-
plosives were unloaded on Frank
furt, motor, chemical and rubber
city of half million p 7 n S,
which, in the daylight preceding
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
Former Acting Customs
Official To Return To
Port Directors Office

Lieut.. E. C. Snead, USNR,
former acting collector Of GUS
toms here has been assigned
to duty in the Navy's local
port directors office.
Prior to being commission
ed in the Naval reserve on
May 20, Lieut.. Snead served
as acting collector of customs
for the port of Wilmington, an
office to which he was appoint
ed when Major John Bright
Hill, the collector, was given
a leave of absence for the du-
ration.
He has been stationed at
Sixth Naval district headquar-
tiers at Charleston, S. C.
At the time of his appoint
ment to acting collector, he
was assistant collector of the
mort He has been a member OF
the staff of the collector of
customs here for 10 years.
His home is at 113 Brook
wood avenue.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
INITIATIVE HELD
Russians Overrun 46 Popu-
lated Places Near Lat
Wan Border
OTHER SECTORS QUIET
Only Guerilla Activity
Reported South OF
Gomel F ront
OTHER SECTORS QUIET

LONDON, Wednesday, Oct.
6.-(P)-Keeping it's initia-
tive in White Russia alive
despite mud and the Germans
the Red army yesterday ov-
erran 46 populated places in
the Vitebsk sector and push
ed to within 80 miles of that
NaZi STRONGHOLD which is it.
self ITO miles from the Lat
Wan frontier, the Moscow ra-
dio announced early today.
In the midnight communi-
que, recorded her by the So
Wet Monitor, the Russians
mentioned only guerrilla &C.
tivities south of Gomez.
Berlin nervously indicated
that the Russians were NOV
ing troops at both ends of the
front - around Lake linen,
far to the north, and at the
southern end of the line just
north of the sea of Azov.
KOLISHKI CAPTURED
In the Vitebsk advance, Kolish-
XII, 30 miles east of the city, was
among the points captured. Speak
ing of this action the communi-
que said: The Germans launched
several counterattacks but were
thrown back
The war bulletin listed more
than 1,150 Germans killed in two
enga gements near Vitebsk and
Gomel.
There was fresh hint in the
communicate announcement that
four enemy troop-laden landing
barges had been sunk by aircraft
of the Soviet Black sea fleet that
the Germans were pulling out of
their slim foothold on the Taman
peninsula, or even Withdrawing
some forces from the Crimea.
Reporting on air activity, the
communicate said that filters of
one unit silenced 16 artillery bat
teries, destroyed 70 trucks with
war supplies and dispersed about
a battalion OF German infantry.
Declaring that Red army troops
in the Gomel area of the front had
captured an important line, the
communique detailed that the
Germans were frustrated in five
local attacks designed to restore
the position.
On Monday, the communicate
said, Russian troops on all fronts
destroyed or disabled SO German
tanks, while 48 enemy planes
were brought down in air combat
Or by anti-aircraft fire.
Moscow dispatches said that
strong German cks
were increasing over wide Sec
tors, but it was not clear whether
this Nazi action and current rains
had caused the Soviet drive to
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FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES DRIVING
zTOWARD ROME DESPITE NAZ7 FORCE:
REDS WITHIN 80 MILES OF VITEBSK
FIR Indicates Moscow
May Be Scene OF Meet
Between 3 Countries

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5-(R)-
A clear indication that Mos
COW will be the scene of an
Anglo Russian American con-
ference of foreign ministers
and that Secretary Hull will
represent the United States
came today from President
Roosevelt.
He was asked at a news con-
ference whether there was any
thing he could say about HuE's
going to the Soviet capital, and
suggested that the question be
put to the secretary of the
state.
He said he had seen Hull this
morning and the secretary had
not made up his mind when
he would spill the beans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
(By The Associated Press


While President Roosevelt yes
terday (Tuesday) called the Japa-
nese retreat in the central Solo
mons real Japanese defeat which
showed the enemy's w e k n s
throughout the Solomons New
Guinea area, the completion of a
Pacific war strategy parley de-
signed to further that defeat was
announced.
Further gains afield were an
nounced in a communique from
Gen. Douglas Macarthur head
quarters In the Southwest Pacific.
The strategy conference W s
held by the three top Navy COM
manders-Admiral Chester w. Nj
mitz, Pacific fleet commander in
chief; Admiral Ernest ]. King. U.
S. fleet commander in chief; and
Admiral William F. Halsey, the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
Struggle For Coo Island
Clouded By Many Stories
Bv KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Strategic aspects Of the fight for Coo island Off the
Turkish coast in the Italian Dodecanese group at the east
mouth of the Aegean difficult to discern
the status of the conflict ITSELF couded by conflicting Naz
and British reports.
1t seemed probable last night however, that the first
skmsh of battle of the Aegean being fought there
For prestige reasons no other the British commander
in that eastern Mediterranean General Sir Henry
Maitland Wilson, hardly can afford to permit the Germans
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
NAILS M0PPED UP
A mericans Methodicallv
Wiping Out Pockets
OF Resistance
IMONTESARCHIO SEIZED
Drive Aimed At Baking
Any Stand By Germans
At Volturno

TIERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 5.
American Fifth
and the British Eighth Ar
mics pushed ahead toward
the Battle of Rome today
against a sharply resisting
German force officially esti-
mated tonight to contain
from four to five divisions.
(Such a force presumably
would number from $4,000 to
$4,000 men,
On the Italian west coast
the Americans, supported by
British armor, were method
ically wiping out Nazi pock-
cts of resistance left to i'm.
pede their progress a short
distance north of Naples.
On the Adriatic coast Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's
army, aided by new landings
from the sea at Termoli, was
going ahead more rapidly in
the direction of Pescara.
where the main lateral road
from Rome Joins with the
coastal road.
In the central sector the
Americans drove into Monte
sarchio in the mountains
southwest of Benevento in
extension of thanking move
ment designed to threaten
any stand the Germans may
attempt to make on the banks
of the Volturno river 20 miles
2orth of Naples.
Two Airfields Occupied
The advance north of Naples,
While not great in distnce cover.
ed, has nevertheless resulted in
the occupation of two of the most
important airfields in southern
Italy, Pomigliano dArco and Ca
it was announced to-
day.
The former is eight miles north.
east of Naples and adjacent to
it is the Alta Rooney aircraft and
engine works, whichc is self
contained town where 10000 per-
sons lived and worked until last
May. Capodichino is three miles
outside Naples. Both fields have
been used by the Germans, es.
pecially for troop-carrying trans
port planes.
In extensive operations yester-
day the North African Air Forces
not only bach up the ground forces
by hammer'ng at the enemy in
the front area and dealing blows
at the rear area of communica-
tons as far away as Pisa and
Bolzano near the Bremen pass,
but they also aided in the battle
of the Dodecanese by striking at
fields in Greece which the Ger
mans have been using for opera.
tons against Coo
Other bombers from the Middle
East also attacked air fields in
Greece, and Raj Beaufighters Of
that command went at enemy for.
nations and vehicles. on the is
land of Coo with cannon fire.
(The German command acknoW-
lodged Tuesday that Corsica had
oeen completely evacuated by Ger
man troops after destruction Of
( COntinued on Page Five. Col q
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-06
Scion Offers
Plan To Drop
Tax Estimate
Republicans Spearheading
Drive To Emphasize
Economy
CONGRESS MUST LOOK
New York Representative
Warns OF National
Bankruptcy

WASHINGTON, Oct. s.
Up, 4 40 per cent reduc-
ton in the Administrations
s10.5Q0,000,000 new tax goal.
through a S4,158,0 100000 cur
taiIment in government eX-
npnditures was proposed to-
dav by Rep. Taber (R-NY),
spearheading a Republican
drive to emphasize economy
in writing new tax legisla-
ton.
"The time has come for the
Congress to stop, look and
listen if we are to avoid ma
tional bankruptcy and econo-
mic chaos" said Taber, rank
mo minority member Of the
House Appropriations COM
rttee. "The president being
without practical business eX-
rarierce may not realize the
s,r'o~-~o0c Of A situation.'
10 Per Cent Sales Tax
He reiterated his personal be-
lief that the country needed a 10
per cent federal retail sales tax,
which he said would h ave a
greater effect than any o t h e +
means of curling inflation.'
Taber called a press conference
at which he said he had found
ways to save over $4,000, 000, 900
end this could be made much
greater by competent manage
ment." He said that on the record
Of the first three months it APP
pears the government will spend
this year only 800, 900. 600, 900, which
is Sl600O.000, 900 below the esti-
mate made by President Roose-
welt in his budget message. Taber
listed specific savings which he
said could be effectuated in fiscal
year 1915.
The $40 500 900, 900 Treasury pro-
gram, featuring greatly increased
income taxes and other levies, was
to the House Ways and
Means committee yesterday. and
received such chilly reception
that it was considered as good as
killed IN its present form.
The New York Board of Trade
appeared before the committee to-
DAY and urged 10 per cent sales
tax.
Economic Sterilization Director
Fred NJ. Vinson. meanwhile. de-
layed until tomorrow his appear
ance at the committees tax hear
ing, apparently 10 gather addition
al ammunition to support the Ad-
mlnlStratlon's position that the S10,-
9O0, 00O. 900 tax bill-mostly in in
come and excise taxes-is needed
10 finance the war and stave off
initiation.
Some committee sentiment for
d sales tax appeared in the CUES
IONS members shot at M. L. Seid-
man, chairman of the board of
trade tax committee, as he pre-
Seh'ed the proposal. Two lawmak-
essen :, Byrd ID. Va and Rep.
la0er lR.-N. Y)-have advocated
9 sales tax in public statements
4U' Randolph Paul, a Treasury
TAX expert. opposed it Yesterday
'S more trouble than it's worth.
oelanan said a 10 per cent sales
o Co% would bring in about S6,O00.-
pooVo0 revenue a year las pain
leS>iF as any tax can be collect
ca tie proposed to couple with
u TAX incentive plan for bond
wy n's as a means of siphoning
vi. excess earnings which he de-
SCiI0ed as an ever increasing
S--inulant TO inflation."
g.; ION you think most opposi-
.loii 10 a sales tax comes from a
+eal mat the government-once it
oOh'lnued on Page Two; Col. 81
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Continued rather
cool.
eastern Standard Time)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
l 80 am, So; 1880 am, So; 1:3o pm,
SO; 80 pm, SO.
Maximum, 76; minimum, So; mean,
10; normal. So.
Humidity
1870 am, 10; 7:30 am, 80; 30 pm,
46; 80 pm, "a.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
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Sunrise, $40 am; sunset. $50 pm;
1:o1p; moonset, II Bop.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayette-
vile on Tuesday, at am, 9.75 feet.
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